Exams administration updates

Autumn 2021 exams: unavailable GCSE qualifications and modules

Wednesday 20 Oct 2021

Earlier this month we emailed schools and colleges and published a news message to let you know that any qualifications which have no entries by the entry deadlines, will not be available this autumn.

Autumn 2021 exams: unavailable qualifications

Thursday 23 Sep 2021

Autumn 2021 question papers

Monday 6 Sep 2021

This autumn series we’ll be using papers we printed for the planned summer exams. The papers do not have an exam date or time printed on the front cover.

Entry fees for summer 2021

Friday 22 Jan 2021

We’ve published our entry fees for the summer 2021 series. Because of the events of this year, we’re a little bit later than usual publishing these. We also published an update on 22 January about paying fees.

JCQ guidance on NEA for summer 2021

Wednesday 20 Jan 2021

The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) has issued guidance for teachers and senior leaders on completing NEA this summer.

Vocational and Technical exams in January 2021

Thursday 7 Jan 2021

The Department for Education (DfE) confirmed on Monday that schools and colleges can continue with the January series exams where they judge it right to do so.

Entry fees not included in basedata

Friday 11 Dec 2020

Basedata for 6A21 and 6G21 – June 2021 series is now available to download. However, it doesn't include fees.

Delay to 2021 basedata

Friday 6 Nov 2020

Basedata for summer 2021 series 6A21 and 6G21 will not be available on 9 November as originally planned.

Changes to GCSEs, AS and A-levels for summer 2021

Thursday 1 Oct 2020

Here's a list of all the qualifications which have changes for summer 2021.

Summer 2019/20 assessment materials

Wednesday 30 Sep 2020

A reminder the summer 2019 question papers and mark schemes are available under Secure Key Materials.