Entries
Information for exams officers about how to enter students for exams. Includes resits, series opening and deadline dates, basedata, fees and transfers.
Centre approval
You can't enter your students for our exams unless we've approved your centre. Make sure you become a centre before you start teaching a course.
Our student section has information about private candidates.
Qualifications that don't use EDI or e-AQA
With the qualifications below, you can't make entries through EDI or e-AQA. Follow the links to talk to the subject teams directly.
- Certificate Personal and Social Education (PSE)
- Unit Award Scheme
- Tech-level vocational qualifications
Make entries using EDI or e-AQA
For other qualifications, you can make entries through either EDI or e-AQA.
Opening and deadline dates
When we upload the basedata files for the exam series, you can make entries with EDI from that day, and with e-AQA shortly after. Our exams update newsletter will also let you know when entries are open.
It's important you don't miss the dates below. If you do, you'll be charged an extra fee.
Series title | Series and year code | Basedata available to download | Entries deadline date | Deadline for Very Late Entries/ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2018 (GCSE entries in the November 2018 series are only available to students aged 16 or over on 31 August 2018) | BG18 | 3 September 2018 | 4 October 2018 | 25 October 2018 |
January 2019 | 1A19 | 7 September 2018 | 21 October 2018 | 15 December 2018 |
March 2019 | 3G19 | 12 October 2018 | 21 January 2019 | 21 February 2019 |
June 2019 | 6A19, 6G19 | 12 November 2018 | 21 February 2019 | 21 April 2019 |
Contact us
If you have a question about entries:
- 0800 197 7162 (+44 161 696 5995 outside the UK)
- entries@aqa.org.uk