Information regarding examination dates, internal assessment deadlines and other assessment windows for the current academic year are published in our document Examination Timetables and Internal Assessment Deadlines. Any available published final timetables for future examination series will also appear on this page.
Final Timetables
June 2021 series: Examinations will not run in this series, and candidate results will be determined in accordance with the requirements of our regulators. Please see our Summer 2021 pages for up to date information.
November 2021 Examination Timetable (standard GCSE series)
Autumn 2021 Exceptional GCSE Series Examination timetable
Autumn 2021 Exceptional GCE (AS and A Level) Series Examination timetable
Please note that the exceptional series of examinations for Level 3 Applied Certificates and Diplomas will be offered in January 2022.
The Department for Education has published autumn 2021 series guidance for centres in England:
• Exam Support Service - Exam fees, venues and invigilators
• Exam centre responsibilities for students retaking qualifications from summer 2020 and summer 2021
Provisional Timetables
Provisional Timetables are published in advance of the final versions to allow centres the opportunity to comment on any issues that they identify. Any available provisional timetables will appear on this page.
The JCQ Common Timetable Working Group, which consists of representatives from AQA, CCEA, OCR, Pearson, WJEC and JCQ, is responsible for producing common provisional and final examination timetables for the November and June examination series.
More information regarding the construction of the common timetable is available on the JCQ website here.
Provisional timetables for the following year’s November GCSE examination series are published by 31 October. Comments, observations or suggested amendments to the timetable must be emailed to centresupport@jcq.org.uk no later than 30 November, for consideration by the JCQ Common Timetable Working Group.
Provisional timetables for the following year’s June examination series are published by 28 February. Comments, observations or suggested amendments to the timetable must be emailed to centresupport@jcq.org.uk no later than 30 April, for consideration by the JCQ Common Timetable Working Group.
Deadlines for the submission of internal assessment, including Non-Examination Assessments (NEA) and Controlled Assessments are published here:
November (Autumn) series non-examination assessment deadlines
January 2021 series non-examination assessment deadlines
Our key dates posters containing entry deadlines, results days, and other key dates are available for download below:
Key Dates January 2021
Key Dates – June 2021 – Eduqas AS, A Level and GCSE
The JCQ key dates documents are available to download from their website here.