Exam Centre
Welcome to Gordano School's Exam Centre. This page should provide you with important information to help you navigate the upcoming exam seasons.
Should you have any questions or concerns, please email exams@gordanoschool.org.uk, we're here to help you!
Exams Officer: Mr Tom Shallcross
Exams Administrator: Dr Rachel Brown / Miss Laura Miller
Office opening hours: 8.00am - 4.00pm (Mon–Thurs), 8.00am - 3.30pm (Fri) (term time only)
Important dates for 2026 - 27
Exam Dates:
GCSE November Resits – Tuesday 3rd November–Monday 9th November
Year 11 Mocks – Monday 23rd November–Friday 4th December
January Vocational Exams - Tuesday 5th January - Friday 15th January
Year 13 Mocks – Tuesday 23rd February–Monday 8th March
Summer Exams – Monday 10th May–Friday 18th June
Year 12 Mocks – Monday 14th June–Friday 25th June
Year 10 Mocks – Monday 14th June–Friday 25th June
Exam Timetables:
Individual exam timetables will be issued before each exam season. Students will be issued with their timetables around 3 weeks before the exam season.
Exam Contingency Dates:
Wednesday 23rd June 2027 is the one exam contingency date that students must keep free for the summer 2027 exam season should any national emergency take place that affects exams.
PLEASE DO NOT MAKE ANY HOLIDAY PLANS UNTIL AFTER WEDNESDAY 23RD JUNE.
GCE (A Level) Results Day – Thursday 12th August 2027
GCSE Results Day - Thursday 19th August 2027
Exam Subject / Boards 2025-26
Please click on the link below for the list of the exam boards that we are currently using. This list is correct for exams in 2025/26, but please be aware that we occasionally change exam boards from one year to the next. If your child is not taking exams in this current academic year, they may study a different specification.
Exam Communications to Parents
Here you will find all the communications we have sent to parents relating to Exams.
1. Summer 2026 Entries - Letter to Parents and Carers
To access your examination timetable, please log into SchoolWorkSpace. Details of how to login can be found here for both parents / students:
Information for Candidates
The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) issue guidance for students taking exams. It is important that all students taking exams are familiar with the content of these documents. They are valid for all 2025/26 exam seasons.
JCQ- Joint Council for Qualifications
Unauthorised items poster 2025-26
Absence / Illness on the day of an exam – Special Consideration
If you are not able to attend an examination for whatever reason, you must inform the attendance and exam teams asap:
Years 10/11 – please email attendanceteam@gordanoschool.org.uk
Years 12/13 – please email 6thformattendance@gordanoschool.org.uk
Exams - exams@gordanoschool.org.uk
If you have temporarily experienced illness, injury or some other event outside your control at the time of the assessment and this has had an effect on your ability to take an assessment or demonstrate your normal level of attainment, please complete the application for special consideration linked below.
Application for Special Consideration - Summer 2026
Applications must be submitted on the day of the assessment that is affected. Supporting evidence must be emailed separately to exams@gordanoschool.org.uk detailing the student's name to support any applications made.
Applications for special consideration can only be made by the school and will only be made in exceptional circumstances, such as serious illness, bereavement or other major traumas. It is not available for long-term conditions - any adjustments required in these cases should be accommodated through the provision of access arrangements if appropriate. Normal exam anxiety does not qualify for special consideration.
JCQ withholds the right to consider all the information available and make a final judgement on if and how special consideration is awarded to the assessment.
Summer 2026
Students and parents have been issued with the 2026 Exam Booklet in January 2026. This will detail various pieces of information to do with this summer's exams. Please ensure this is read.
Please click on the link to view the skeleton timetable for the Summer 2026 public examinations.
Results Day - A / AS Level - Thursday 13th August 8am
Results can be collected on site from 8am on Thursday 13th August from the Main Hall. Your results envelope contains important information, including a breakdown of the marks achieved for each paper, which the emailed version does not provide. It also gives you all the relevant information about how to apply for post results services along with the relevant fees and deadlines. Please see the information under the 'Post Results Services' section for more information on what is available to you.
Grade boundaries can be found at the following websites ON results day:
AQA: AQA | Exams admin | Results days | Grade boundaries
Pearson: Grade boundaries | Pearson qualifications
OCR: Grade boundaries
Eduqas / WJEC: Results and Grade Boundaries (eduqas.co.uk)
Results will be emailed to students' school email addresses from 8am on results day. If you are on holiday abroad, you will not be able to access your school email address, so please make arrangements for someone to come and collect results on site.
Results can only be given to the student. If you would like to nominate someone else to collect your results on your behalf, then you will need to notify the Exams team using the link below, and the person identified will need to bring in photographic ID on the day for results to be released.
Result Day- Collection of results if the candidate is not collecting- Summer 2026
If you are concerned about any aspect of your results, staff will be available on results day to support you.
Results Day – GCSE – Thursday 20th August 8.30am
Results can be collected on site from 8.30am on Thursday 20th August from the Main Hall. Your results envelope contains important information, including a breakdown of the marks achieved for each paper, which the emailed version does not provide. It also gives you all the relevant information about how to apply for post results services along with the relevant fees and deadlines. Please see the information under the 'Post Results Services' section for more information on what is available to you.
Grade boundaries can be found at the following websites ON results day:
AQA: AQA | Exams admin | Results days | Grade boundaries
Pearson: Grade boundaries | Pearson qualifications
OCR: Grade boundaries
Eduqas / WJEC: Results and Grade Boundaries (eduqas.co.uk)
Results will be emailed to students' school email addresses from 10am on results day. If you are on holiday abroad, you will not be able to access your school email address, so please make arrangements for someone to come and collect results on site.
Results can only be given to the student. If you would like to nominate someone else to collect your results on your behalf, then you will need to notify the Exams team using the link below, and the person identified will need to bring in photographic ID on the day for results to be released.
Result Day- Collection of results if the candidate is not collecting- Summer 2026
If you are concerned about any aspect of your results, staff will be available on results day to support you.
Post-Results Services
The deadline to submit any Post Result request is Thursday 24th September 2026.
Post-Results Services Explained
Exam Policies
Please find below all the Exam policies/guidance for terms 5 & 6. Click each link to access full details:
Certificates / Results
It is essential that you collect your certificates within 12 months of when exams were sat. For exams sat in the summer, certificates are usually received by the start of December and we will notify you when they are available to be collected.
To compare Gordano School's performance with other schools in our area, you can follow this link
