Examination Information

The latest information from Ofqual can be found below:

• Coping with exam pressure - a guide for students and focus on mental health
• Ofqual Student Guide to Exams and Assessments in 2026

If you are unable to attend on results day and wish someone else to collect your results for you, you must have arranged this in advance with the exams office staff. The person collecting will need to bring their photo ID with them - without this they will not be given your results.

Students must ensure that they read all the documents in the JCQ Information for Candidates found here. These documents are for students taking any external exams, coursework, non-examination assessments or controlled assessments this year. They are published by the Joint Council for Qualifications and the school and students must comply with their instructions.
Please ensure you read these notices so you understand your responsibilities as an external exam candidate. The notices explain how you should behave before, during and after written exams, your conduct on using social media and examinations/assessments, how your personal data is processed by the awarding bodies, and the rules around the production of coursework, controlled assessments and non-examined assessments.

If you do not understand any of this information please visit the exams office and speak with Mrs Coughlin.

Breaches of these instructions must be reported to the exam boards and a range of sanctions, including disqualification, may be applied.

External exams are held in May and June and students are entered for these exams in February. A Statement of Entry will be given to each student to check following this to ensure that their details are correct. Personal timetables will be issued after Easter. 

Summer 2026 timetables for GCSEs and A Levels are now available. Personal timetables will be issued to students nearer the time. Dates for non-examined assessments (NEAs) will be timetabled by the departments. 

The Exams Office have produced a video covering 'Information for Candidates for Written Examinations 2025/26', which is an animated version of the rules and regulations that candidates must follow.

The school Exam Handbook contains important information about external exams. Please ensure you have taken some time to familiarise yourself with the rules and regulations. It takes you through the whole of the exam cycle from entries and your data to getting your certificates. It also explains what happens on the day of the exams, acceptable exams equipment and behaviour, what to do if you are ill or going to be late and reviews of your result in the summer.

Where an adverse issue or event has had or is reasonably likely to have had a material effect on a candidate's performance in an exam, a request may be submitted to school by completion of the relevant Google form for special consideration. (For example, a bereavement or temporary injury or illness or some other event outside their control at the time of the assessment).
After all public exams have finished, these requests are reviewed by a member of the Senior Leadership Team and, where approval is given, applications will be submitted to the awarding bodies.

Y9 Special Considerations Form
GCSE Special Considerations Form
Y12 Special Considerations Form
Y13 A & AS Level Special Considerations Form

All Exam Policies and Subject Access Request information can be found on the policies page.

GCSE certificates will be given to students still at The Crypt in November. Former sixth form and Year 11 students are invited to return to school towards the end of December to collect their A level and GCSE certificates.

Students who will take GCSE and A level exams in Summer 2026 and will not be at the school for the 2026-27 academic year may collect their certificates from school reception on Wednesday 16th December between 3.30 and 6.00pm. 

To arrange collecting your certificates at any other time, please email lcoughlin@crypt.gloucs.sch.uk. We will provide them as soon as possible but ideally would prefer at least two working days' notice to action your request. Please include your full name, date of birth and a contact telephone number. Once confirmed, certificates will be available to collect from reception during school hours. Please bring current photo ID with you.

A friend or relative can collect certificates on your behalf, but we will require signed confirmation from you authorising a named person to collect them. The person collecting the certificates must bring a form of their current photo ID with them.

Exam certificates are held in school for 7 years. If you have lost or not collected your certificates in time you should contact the exam boards for replacements. More information can be found at www.gov.uk/replacement-exam-certificate. You may need to quote the centre number in any request - this is 57117.

• AQA
• OCR
• EDUQAS
• Pearsons (Edexcel)
• WJEC

Before their exams, students will attend an exam briefing assembly where we explain how exams are run. Our aim is to make these exams as similar as possible to the public exams in the summer, in line with JCQ regulations.

Y11 sit two sets of formal assessments, one in December and the second one in March.

Year 13 sit mock exams in February.

Year 10 sit their end of year exams in April, after the Easter break.

Year 12 sit their end of year exams  in late April - early May.

Current timetables for internal exams can be found below.