Exam Information

November 2024 Exam timetable

After the Exams

Special Consideration

Your performance in an exam can sometimes be affected by adverse circumstance, such as recent bereavement or recent illness. Exam Boards do make allowances in certain situations providing the school has appropriate supporting evidence. Please speak to the Exams Officer, Mrs Emma Harris, as soon as possible if you think this may apply to you.

Results

Students will be able to collect their results on the morning of the results days. Students will be sent information regarding these dates and times and they will also be listed on our social media platforms. Results will only be issued to the student to whom they belong. For those students unable to collect their results in person, results will be emailed out later in the day.

 Certificates

You will be notified by school when certificates are available to collect. For students that leave the school and no longer have access to school email addresses, notifications of the dates they are available for collection will be posted on social media. Certificates for the summer exams are usually ready for collection by the beginning of December.

If you are unable to collect your certificates in person, a relative or a friend can collect them for you, please email the Exams Officer, Mrs Emma Harris, giving permission for a named individual to collect your certificates on your behalf. That person must bring photo ID with them.

Exam certificates are extremely important legal documents – please keep them safe. If you lose your certificates you will need to contact the Exam Boards directly to arrange for a replacement.

Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College is committed to ensuring that whenever its staff mark candidates’ work this is done fairly, consistently and in accordance with the awarding body’s specification and subject-specific associated documents.

Sandbach High School and Sixth Form College ensures that all centre staff follow a robust policy for the management of GCE and GCSE non-examination assessments. More information can be found in the Internal Appeals procedure document which can be downloaded at the bottom of this webpage. 

Please find below the deadlines for 2023/24 none examined assessments.

Deadlines for requesting access to coursework/NEA and reviews of marking

Results Days are as follows:

Thursday 15^th August 2024 – Exam Results for the following exams are available for collection from the Sixth Form building from 8.30am

• A Levels
• AS Levels
• BTEC Level 3 (Business, Health & Social Care)
• Cambridge Technicals (Digital Media)
• WJEC Level 3 Applied Diploma (Criminology, Food Science and Nutrition)

Thursday 22^nd August 2024 – Exam Results for the following exams are available for collection from the Main Hall from 8.30am

• GCSEs
• BTEC Level 1/2 (Year 11 Health & Social Care)
• BTEC Level 1/2 (Year 10 Health & Social Care)
• Cambridge Nationals (Year 11 Child Development, Creative iMedia, Enterprise & Marketing)
• Cambridge Nationals (Year 10 Child Development, Creative iMedia, Enterprise & Marketing)

Please note that GCSE results day is also our Sixth Form College Enrolment Day. Enrolment will take place next to the distribution of results. If you are unable to attend and wish to enrol in College, please contact Miss Katie Vickers, Key Stage 5 Manager (kvickers@sandbachhigh.co.uk) and we can agree arrangements with you for enrolment.

We are here

Senior members of staff from school will be available between 8.30am and 12.30pm on Thursday 15^th August and Thursday 22^nd August should you wish to discuss your results and/or potential reviews of marking.

Unable to collect your results? 

Where you are unable to collect your results in person, you may assign an alternative person to collect them on your behalf. You will need to write to us (eharris@sandbachhigh.co.uk) and let us know in advance the name of the individual who will be collecting your results. Your assigned person will need to bring photo ID with them on the day.

Alternatively, exam results will be available on Edulink (from 8am for Y12/13 students and 8.30am for Y11/10/9 students). Results will also be emailed out to your school email account at some point in the afternoon of your results day.

There are a number of post results services available to you:

1. You can request Access to Scripts which will allow you to see your marked work.
2. You can ask for a Clerical Check where the accuracy of the adding up of your marks will be checked.
3. You can ask for a Review of Marking where the exam board will check the marking scheme has been applied correctly.
4. Where a university placement is pending, you can request a Priority Review of Marking where the exam board will check the marking scheme has been applied correctly, and treat your application as a priority so you will receive a response quicker.

It is important to note marks and/or grades can go UP OR DOWN OR REMAIN THE SAME.

For Access to Script requests, you must complete and submit Appendix B (Access to Scripts).

For Clerical Check or Review of Marking requests, you must complete and submit Appendix A (Review of Marking).

Both these forms can be found below in the download section of this page. 

Please note you (the candidate) must give consent for any request to proceed.

The Exam Boards have strict deadlines for these requests, the deadlines are:

• For Priority Review of Marking requests for AS Level, A Level and Level 3 qualifications, you must complete and submit Appendix A by 12noon on Thursday 22nd August 2024.
• For Priority Access to Script requests for AQA AS and A-Level qualifications, to help decide next steps, you must complete and submit Appendix B by 12noon on Thursday 29^th August 2024
• For Priority Review of Marking requests for Edexcel GCSE exams, you must complete and submit Appendix A by noon on Thursday 29^th August 2024.
• For Priority Access to Script requests for AQA GCSE qualifications, to help decide next steps, you must complete and submit Appendix B by 12noon on Thursday 5^th September 2024
• For Access to Script requests, you must complete and submit Appendix B by noon on Thursday 26^th September 2024.
• For Clerical Check or Review of Marking requests, you must complete and submit Appendix A by noon on Thursday 26^th September 2024.

Fees are applied for Clerical Checks and Reviews of Marking. The fee for different Exam Boards may differ please see the table below:

KS5:

KS4:

It is important to note that you would be charged for each paper for which you request a Clerical Check or a Review of Marking.

If you request Access to Scripts, you will receive a copy of your exam paper, if you wish it to be looked at by your teacher(s), you will need to approach them to do this. It will not be forwarded to your teacher(s) automatically and does not form part of the process. Please note, staff may not be able to accommodate this request ahead of the deadline for a Clerical Check / Review of Marking if insufficient notice is given.

Parent/carer email addresses are requested in relation to payment queries. Copies of exam scripts and/or results of Clerical Checks / Reviews of Marking will only be shared with candidates for data protection purposes.

A hard copy of the completed form, or an electronic copy of the completed form should be submitted to the Exams Officer in school, or via email (eharris@sandbachhigh.co.uk) no later than the deadlines stated above. For us to accept an electronic copy of the form, it must be signed by the student or sent from the student’s school email address.

As we are a cashless school, payment should be made either via Bank Transfer or via card machine. When paying via Bank Transfer please use the details provided in the letter below and ensure you check you have chosen the correct amount appropriate to the exam board and post-result service you require.

A card machine will be available at the school on results day, and will then be available in school from Monday 2^nd September. 

Once both the form and payment have been received, the Exams Officer will make the request to the exam board. Should you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact me on eharris@sandbachhigh.co.uk.

Certificates

If you sat your exams and completed your qualification in May/June your certificate will be ready for collection by the end of November.

If you took the GCSE English or Maths resit exams in November your certificates will be ready for collection by the middle of March.

When collecting your results (see results section for dates), please provide us with an alternative contact email (other than your school email address) so we can contact you when your certificates are ready for collection.

Collection of your certificates

As qualification certificates are legal documents they need to be collected in person - we do not post out certificates.  Certificates need to be signed for upon collection.

Certificates can be collected from the Exams Officer between 8.30am and 3.30pm each school day. Please bring photo ID when collecting your certificates.

If you are unable to collect your certificates in person, you can nominate someone to collect them on your behalf. To do this please send an email to eharris@sandbachhigh.co.uk giving consent for a named individual to collect the certificates on your behalf. The nominated person, would need to bring photo ID with them when they come to collect the certificates.

Mislaid certificates

If you have collected your certificates from us, but have mislaid them you will need to contact the exam boards directly to obtain replacements. Please note, exam boards charge a fee for replacing certificates. The contact details for the exam boards are:

AQA

www.aqa.org.uk

Tel: 0800 197 7162

OCR (Cambridge Nationals/Technicals)

www.ocr.org.uk

Tel: 01223 553 998

Edexcel/Pearson

https://qualifications.pearson.com

Tel: 0344 463 2535

WJEC

www.wjec.co.uk

Tel: 02920 265 000

Other useful links 

http://www.ucas.ac.uk/ for the university clearing service 

http://www.admissionstestingservice.org/for-test-takers/bmat/about-bmat/ for those wishing to study certain medical and veterinary courses 

http://www.lnat.ac.uk/ for those wishing to study law degrees 

http://www.ukcat.ac.uk/home/ for medical and dentistry degrees 

OCR – Oxford Cambridge & RSA Examinations http://www.ocr.org.uk/ 

AQA – Assessment and Qualifications Alliance http://www.aqa.org.uk/ 

PEARSON –   https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/home.html 

WJEC – Welsh Joint Education Committee http://www.wjec.co.uk/ 

The JCQ provides guidance for all examination stakeholders from awarding bodies to students. http://www.jcq.org.uk/ 

Department for Education http://www.education.gov.uk