Sheldon School

Summer Exams

Students are normally issued with personal exam timetables prior to the Easter break. In the meantime here are the key dates for Summer 2025:

• 8 May 2025 - GCSE - Date of first exam on the common (national) timetable.

• 12 May 2025 - GCE - Date of the first exam on the common (national) timetable.

• 19 June 2025 - GCSE - Date of the final exam on the common (national) timetable.

• 24 June 2025 - GCE - Date of final examination on the common (national) timetable.

All students need to remain available up to and including 25 June 2025 - Contingency day in the event of national or significant local disruption to examinations in the United Kingdom.

See links below in the Exam Board Timetables section for further information.

Summer Results

Thursday 14 August 2025 - 8am in the Sixth Form Study Room
GCE / Level 3 qualifications (all students including unit results for Year 12, and Y11 OCR L3 Additional Mathematics)

Thursday 21 August 2025 - 8:30am in the Sixth Form Study Area
GCSE / Level 2 qualifications (all students including unit results/Further Maths for Year 10 students, and Year 9 Film Studies)

Results will be available in the Sixth Form until mid to late morning, after that, please go directly to the Exams Office. Uncollected results will be prepared for first class postage by mid afternoon.

RESULTS

Results are the property of the student and will not be passed to anyone else without the student's prior written consent. Results cannot be provided over the telephone.

For the summer season, results are issued during August and students normally collect their results in person. If students have plans to be away on results days, they need to contact the exams office by the end of June to make alternative arrangements. The exams office requires the student's prior consent to make alternative arrangements.

An explanation of the post-results services can be found in the JCQ guidance here. This information will be updated prior to each results session. It is important to note deadlines apply to all the post results services, and fees apply to many services.

A letter from Ofqual and UCAS can be found here.

Exam boards also issue their own information as follows:

- AQA

- Eduqas (Welsh Board)

- OCR

- Pearson (Edexcel)

exam board timetables

Timetables are available on exam board websites:

- AQA

- Eduqas (Welsh Board)

- OCR

- Pearson (Edexcel)

Sheldon specific timetables will be made available here once ready. In the meantime, students should speak to their tutors/teachers about key dates including internal assessments. Students normally receive their personal timetables prior to the Easter break.

CERTIFICATES

Summer season certificates are made available prior to Christmas. Sheldon students who have moved to the Sixth Form will be contacted via their tutors. For leavers, information will go out via social media when certificates are available for collection. Ex-Year 13s, can collect their certificates at the Christmas reunion. Uncollected certificates are normally posted home and must be sent via a signed-for service.

Exam board results certificates are important legal documents and should be retained carefully. If certificates have been lost, and exam board documentation is required, information on how to do this can be found here. Exam boards do charge for this service. In some cases, for recent results, the school can provide information. Due to GDPR data is erased from the school's system after a certain timeframe.

Regulation of Exams

Most exams at Sheldon are regulated by JCQ, the Joint Council for Qualifications. This body is responsible for the framework around how exams and other assessments are conducted. More information can be found here.

It is important that students are aware of the expectations and responsibilities with regard to exams. All JCQ regulations for candidates can be found here.

JCQ Information for Candidates