Exams Officer Update - December 2025

Change of process for Centre Services additional admin

We’ve made some changes to the additional administrator process:

• if you need to request an additional centre administrator or an update to an existing centre administrator’s email address, we'll now accept the security email from the existing Exams Officer, and we’ll call them to verify the request.
• if we do not have a record of an existing centre admin in post, we’ll get in touch with the Head of Centre to verify the request.

To help protect the secure data on Centre services, all Centre Services administrators must complete annual cyber security training. This is stated in JCQ’s General Regulations for Approved Centres, section 3.21.

Entries

January 2026 exam series

You can still make late entries for the January 2026 exam series until Monday 15 December 2025. New entries will be charged a late fee but there will be no extra cost for amendments.

Entries submitted on or after Tuesday 16 December 2025 are classified as very late and will be charged a ‘very late’ entry fee, and you'll be charged to make any amendments.

We’ll be in touch before the start of the January 2026 exams with detailed exam guidance.

Summer 2026 exam series

The summer 2026 exam series basedata was released on 21 November and it can now be imported into your MIS.

You can make entries for the summer 2026 exam series until Saturday 21 February 2026. New entries made after this date will be charged a late fee. We recommend getting your entry file to us as soon as it’s ready so we can start processing it, and help you to fix any issues.

You can find more entries information on our website including a flow chart and information on how to avoid common mistakes when making entries.

If you need help understanding how to use your MIS for entries, please contact your provider.

Exams Officer training

We’ve noticed that more and more of you want to join our Exams Officer training, both face-to-face and online events. We know how precious your time is and often things get in the way, but if you cannot attend your session, please make sure you amend your booking so we can offer this place to another Exams Officer.

For every webinar topic, there will be a recording of the session available on our AQA training for Exams Officers page if you are not able to attend an alternative event.

Conflict of interest

We’ve uploaded a refreshed guide for managing conflicts of interest within your centre. You can also find the guidance on our website.

We’re hiring JCQ Centre Inspectors

We're hiring JCQ Centre Inspectors, on behalf of the JCQ exam boards to visit centres and check that they're administering exams in-line with the relevant JCQ rules. This important role helps to make sure that students across the country receive fair and equal exam conditions.

You can find out more and apply for the role here.