Exam Information for Students and Parents
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Exams at Cheney School
GCSE
Over the academic year GCSE external/public timetabled exams are held in November, January, March and May-June. These are referred to as an exam season or exam series; i.e. November series, January series, March series and June series/Summer season. The majority of GCSE/GCE timetabled exams are sat in the June series.
Exam entry deadlines are always several months before the actual exams:
November exams – entry deadline in September
January exams – entry deadline in October
March exams – entry deadline in January
June exams – GCSE entry deadline late January
– GCE entry deadline in February
Timetables are handed out to students with the date of their external/public exams only. For the summer exams a ‘Statement of Entry’ is also sent out, to show all units (including non-timetabled units) and subject awards for which a student is entered. This entry information needs to be checked carefully by students and parents/guardians.
At the beginning of Year 10, each student is assigned a four-digit Candidate Number (Exam Number), which will need to be written on every external exam paper and some coursework pieces. This number can be found on all individual external exam timetables and Statements of Entry – Please memorise this number.
Internal/mock exams for GCSEs are held in November and February. Internally produced timetables are handed out to students in advance of these exams.
There are also coursework/practical exams called Controlled Assessments in several subjects. These exams are set by the teachers during the academic year. Science practical exams are also referred to as ISAs (Investigative Skills Assignment). Any internal exam dates are set by the teachers and communicated to students in lessons.
BTECs/OCR Nationals
BTEC and Nationals courses are all coursework based. There are no external/public timetabled exams and all work is marked by the teachers. All deadlines are set by the teachers.
Examination Boards
There are four main Examination Boards (also called Awarding Bodies) - AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC. These Exam Boards all offer the full range of subjects, but the courses followed at Cheney are chosen from these Exam Boards by the Head of Department. All the Exam Boards have websites where students and parents can find further information.
Please click below 'Board Name12-13' for the Exam Board and course code used at Cheney School…..
Results
Exam results are released throughout the year following each exam series:
November exams – result day in January
January exams – results day in March
March exams – results day in April
June exams – results day in August (GCE : 15 August / GCSE : 22 August)
Enquiries About Results (EAR)
When results are released the Exam Boards allow a few weeks for students or teacher to make ‘Enquiries About Results’, these include requesting scripts back or a review of marking, for example. These Post Results Services incur a charge which students usually have to cover. All requests must be submitted through the Exams Office at Cheney School.
Please click below ‘Post Results Services' for more information. Charges change each year……
If you need to re-sit any exams please find the 'Exam Service Request form' below ...........
Certificates
Certificates are issued when a GCSE/GCE/BTEC/National course has been completed in full. Certificates are not issued where a ‘U’ grade is awarded. Each Exam Board issues their own certificates once all EARs have been completed, which is usually a couple of months after the results day. We are only legally obliged to hold these certificates for 12 months. If certificates are lost then it is the students responsibility to request replacement documents directly from the Exam Board, for which there is a charge of over £30 per certificate.
Please click below 'AQA Exam Records' for information on how to request replacement certificates…..
You can collect Summer 2012 certificates from Main Reception from 8th January until 28th March 2013. Please click below ' Certificate Collection Letter ' for more details....
Department for Education Performance Tables 2011/012
2011 Data
Every year the Department for Education updates the performance tables for schools.
Cheney Schools Key Stage 3 – 5 performance tables can be accessed via http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/index.html
2012 Data
For 2012 results, the Department for Education intends to publish these in January 2013.