At the end of November/start of December, GCSE and A level certificates will either be

• posted to students who are no longer in school, at the address held on our system*, or
• handed to students who are still in school.

*if you have changed address, please email the new address to exams@northleamington.co.uk

Students who have sat examinations during Years 10 or 12 will get these certificates at the same time.

Exams are run in line with JCQ regulations to ensure the integrity and security of the examination/assessment system is always maintained and not brought into disrepute.

Candidates are informed of these regulations during assemblies, tutor time and through correspondence, and they sign a form in school to confirm they have read and understood them.

All the documents are available below:

NLS Instructions for Exam Candidates 

JCQ Information for Candidates

JCQ Exam Room Posters

JCQ Guidance For Parent/Carers and Students About Access Arrangements

Guide to Exam Access Arrangements

Key Information for Candidates and Parents in Preparation for Exams

Unauthorised Items Poster

JCQ ICE Warning to Candidates

• Non Examination Assessment Policy
• JCQ Information for Students Taking Non Examination Assessments
• Student Guide to AI and Assessments
• Malpractice Policy 
• Internal Appeals Procedure (Review of Results and Appeals)
• Internal Appeals Procedure (Internal Assessment and Decisions)
• Complaints and Appeals Procedure
• Elm Tree Multi Academy Trust Artificial Intelligence Policy 

In the unlikely event there is a situation where a student cannot attend an exam or is experiencing difficulties then we ask:

• Parents/Carers to phone into school before 8:30am if a student is unable to attend on the day explaining the reason why. 
• Where a student is able to attend exams but is impacted by something such as injury, family bereavement etc please inform the exams team as soon as possible by emailing exams@northleamington.co.uk.

The Exams team will then be in touch to discuss how we can support and to liaise regarding any paperwork and evidence that would be needed if it was appropriate to make a request for special consideration to the awarding body, in line with the guidance. 

The awarding of special consideration for circumstances at the time of the assessment is at the discretion of the awarding body, in line with the  JCQ Guidance for Special Consideration and only goes a small way to compensating for any situation rather than replicating necessarily the student’s full capability. Wherever possible it is usually in the best interest of a student to sit the examination.

All examinations measure what a student knows and can do at the time of the assessment, and awarding bodies do not consider longer term circumstances that may have prevented a student from reaching the standards they may otherwise have done.

Year 13

• Results day for Year 13 will be Thursday 12 August 2027

• Results are available between 9am and 10am. Students must collect their own results and for any students not able to attend results will be e-mailed to their school e-mail address later that day.

Year 11

• Results day for Year 11 will Thursday 19 August 2027

• Results are available between 9am and 10am. Students must collect their own results and for any students not able to attend results will be e-mailed to their school e-mail address later that day.

• On results day we will also be enrolling students to the Sixth Form, more information regarding this will be sent by the Sixth Form Team in due course.

Year 10

• GCSE Results day for Year 10 is on Thursday19 August 2027

• Students are able to collect their results from 9:30am to 10.30am at school. Results can only be collected by the student themselves. If students are unable to collect in person we will post home all results that day.  

Information of the Review of Results services offered by the awarding bodies will be added here for If you have a query with your results, the awarding bodies offer the following Review of Results services:

Review of Marking

• Available for any externally assessed written examination
• A second examiner will review the paper/recording again to identify genuine marking errors or unreasonable marking
• Includes a clerical re-check to ensure all marks are counted and recorded correctly
• Your grade can go down as well as up.
• Requests will only be processed upon receipt of a completed consent form and full payment as outlined below.
• The outcome will be available within 20 calendar days of the awarding body receiving the request and will be emailed to the candidate via their school e-mail address.

Priority Review:  only available if an A-level candidate’s University place is dependent on the outcome.

Standard Review – for all other candidates

Access to script

Clerical re-check

If you have any queries please email the Exams Office: exams@northleamington.co.uk