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Examinations
Students will be entered for the following GCSE and A-level Subjects in Summer 2025
• (i)GCSE Subject and Examinations Codes
• A-level Subject and Examination Codes
All students must read the following information below information under Information for candidates documents - JCQ Joint Council for Qualifications
Mock GCSE and A-level Examinations
February 2025
The students and parents will be given their timetable by the end of the Michaelmas term 2024. A College briefing will be held in January 2025 to go over all the information that they will need.
The mock examinations will run on the following dates:
• Upper Five mock examinations are from Wednesday 5 February to Tuesday 18 February 2025
• Upper Sixth mock examinations are from Monday 3 February to Monday 17 February 2025
The GCSE and A level mock examination timetables have been given to students
Internal Examinations
May 2025
The students and parents will be given their timetables by the end of the Lent Term 2025. The examinations will run on the following dates:
• Lower Sixth examinations are from Wednesday 14 May to Friday 23 May 2025
• Remove to Upper Four examinations are from Thursday 15 May to Tuesday 20 May 2025
• Lower Five examinations are from Thursday 15 May to Wednesday 21 May 2025
Public Examinations
May and June 2025
The GCSE and A-level examinations will run from Thursday 8 May to Monday 23 June 2025.
All students will attend a briefing in January 2025 and be given their confirmation of entries and their individual timetables.
Examination Contingency Days
Students will also need to be available for the examination contingency days which are designed to be used in the event of national or significant local disruption to examinations. The dates are afternoons of 11 June 2025 and the day of 25 June 2025.
If you have any questions then please contact Mrs Duguid, Examinations Officer via email examinations@ladiescollege.ac.gg
JCQ examination information for candidates 2024-25
Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) issue information for candidates which the College must share and ask all students to read before they sit examinations.
Using social media and examinations/assessments – what you can and can’t share with others online and what would be malpractice, leading to potential disqualification from the qualification
Information for candidates – coursework assessments - This document tells you about some things that you must and must not do when you are completing coursework
Information for candidates – Privacy Notice about we share your personal information with the Examination Boards so that we can enter you for the qualifications
Preparing to sit your exams – a useful checklist so that you are ready for examination day
Information for candidates – written examinations – a more indepth guide to preparing to sit your exams
The Exams Office YouTube about instructing candidates for written examinations:
https://youtu.be/xLDe6JDlcjU
The Ladies’ College policies for candidates
The following policies have been written to support the students in their examinations:
Internal Appeals Procedure - queries relating to non-examined assessment (coursework) marks
Results days
GCE A-level results will be published on Thursday 14 August 2025 and available for collection at 08.30.
GCSE results will be published on Thursday 21 August 2025 and available for collection at 09.00.
Refreshments will be available in the Core for you and your parents on these dates.
Post Result Services
(Enquiries about Results and Access to Scripts)
There are five services that are provided by the Examination Boards to allow you to have your script(s) reviewed to ensure that you have been awarded the correct mark and/or to allow you to review a copy of your script(s). These are only available for externally assessed components, not coursework units.
They are:
• Priority review of marking (A-level only)
• Review of marking
• Clerical recheck
• Priority copy of script
• Copy of script
A letter explaining these services will be in the students’ results envelope together with a form to complete to request any of the services. Please remember for those who have taken A-levels, you must request any of the above services from the College which you were entered and sat the examination and take the forms to the correct College together with the payment. For those taking (i)GCSEs, if you need help deciding on whether to request one of the services then there will be time to discuss this with your teachers when you return to College in September.
