If you wish to contact the school’s Exams Officer, please do so via the main school telephone number 01727 854726 or exams@beaumont.school. If you have an appointment to visit the Exams Officer, please report to Reception on arrival. Please note that the information on this page may relate to the current or the previous academic year, depending upon when dates and deadlines become available. If in doubt, please contact the Exams Office or the relevant Head of Year for clarification.Exams
The Exams Office is open 8.30 am to 3.30 pm during term time.
Beaumont School’s Centre Number is 17511, for use in completing examination forms.
Year 11 Mock Exams will take place from Wednesday 9th to Thursday 24th November 2022. The overall timetable can be viewed here. Students will also receive personalised timetables, including details of any exam clashes. Students are advised to familiarise themselves with the requirements for written public examinations here. Year 13 Mock Exams will take place from Monday 9th to Friday 20th January 2023. The overall timetable can be viewed here. Students will also receive personalised timetables, including details of any exam clashes. Students are advised to familiarise themselves with the requirements for written public examinations here. Year 12 students take Threshold Exams in the second half of the Summer Term, from Monday 5th to Friday 16th June 2023. The timetable for these exams can be viewed here and students will also receive personalised timetables, including details of any exam clashes, via their school email accounts. Please note, any students studying at Consortium schools should be aware that mock examinations may take place at alternative times, and should check with their relevant subject teachers. End of Year Exams for Years 7 to 10 will take place from 5th to 9th June 2023. Students will receive copies of their timetables over their Year Group Google Classrooms but a combined version (with tabs for each Year Group) can be viewed here. A useful Revision Booklet, written by members of the Beaumont Teaching & Learning Team can be downloaded here. A revision “micro-site” to help students in Years 7 – 10 prepare for their end of year exams can be found here. Please note that, until it has been finalised, it contains last year’s exam dates. A timetable of all examinations in the 2023 Summer Series can be downloaded here. Please note that this may be subject to updates. The latest version was posted: 10.5.23 Unless otherwise stated on a candidate’s timetable, morning exams start at 8.45am, afternoon exams start at 1.30pm. Candidates should arrive at the exam venue 15 minutes before the exam is start time. A handbook of information for students taking external examinations this Summer can be viewed here. A factsheet from the DfE, Exams and Assessments in England in 2023 can be viewed here. Exam results are issued to candidates at the Sixth Form Centre. If a candidate wishes someone else to collect their results on their behalf, a letter from the candidate naming the person and photographic ID will be required. Also, a self-addressed and stamped envelope can be provided, so that the statement of results can be posted later on results day. GCE A/S and ‘A’ level results will be issued 8.00 – 9.00 am on Thursday 17th August 2023. GCSE (and all other KS4 qualifications) results will be issued 9.00 – 10.00 am on Thursday 24th August 2023. Staff will be available on both days to offer advice and guidance to students. Mrs Curnow (our Herts Services for Young People, Personal Advisor) will be available on GCSE Results Day. STEP (Sixth Term Examination Paper) is a Mathematics examination used by the University of Cambridge, the University of Warwick and Imperial College London. Please check details of your course(s) to confirm if you are required to take STEP as part of the application process. Other universities sometimes ask candidates to take STEP as part of their offer – in such cases, the university can advise on which papers to take. STEP Registration Deadline: 27th April 2023 Please come and collect an application form from outside the Exams Office and make sure it is returned by the above date. Should you require any access arrangements, please discuss these as soon as possible so that the relevant planning can be undertaken. Each test consists of a 3 hour paper based examination. Candidates are usually required to sit either one or two of the examinations, depending on the requirements of the universities you have applied to. There is a candidate registration fee of £93. Payment will be set up through your MCAS account. Dates For further information please refer to the Admissions Testing website: https://www.admissionstesting.org/for-test-takers/step/about-step/Internal Examinations: 2022 – 2023
External Examinations: 2022 – 2023
Results Days – Summer 2023
University Admissions Testing
Please note that school documentation for Post-Results Services is issued with student results and is also available for each series below, and from the Exams Office during stated times. If you do not use the correct form for an exam service request it may not be possible for it to be processed due to a lack of the correct information. Completed forms should be returned to the Exams Office or by email (exams@beaumont.school), with payment being set up via MyChildAtSchool. Post-Results Services are subject to deadlines set by the exam boards and are, therefore, not negotiable. A document which explains the various Post-Results Services available to candidates will be available for download here. A copy of the fees for the Post-Results Services offered will be available here. An editable copy of the Post-Results Service Candidate Consent Form for the January 2023 series of examinations can be downloaded here. A pdf of the same document can be downloaded here. Students should familiarise themselves with the following information for candidates documentation and be fully aware of the expectations during examinations and assessments. The Exams Office has produced a five minute video to explain JCQ regulations for exams, which can be viewed here.Results
Post-Results Services
January 2023 Post-Results Services Information:
JCQ Notices to Candidates:2022-23
Candidates may request a review of the school’s marking of Non-Examination Assessment (NEA) in GCSE, GCE, BTEC, CTEC, CNAT and Project qualifications (including coursework and controlled assessment). If candidates are considering this option, they should discuss their result(s) with the relevant teacher and/or Head of Department and they may request copies of materials to assist them in making their decision. Requests for reviews must be made to the Exams Officer, using the form which can be downloaded here. There is a fee of £30 per review, to cover staffing and administrative costs, payable through My Child At School. Please ensure that the individual components (papers or units) are clearly identified and listed separately on the paperwork submitted. The final deadline for any requests for reviews in qualifications to be awarded in summer 2023 is 9.00am Wednesday 26th April 2023*. Candidates should receive the outcome(s) of their review(s) by Friday 5th May. * Please note that this date does not apply to Art/Graphics/Textiles or Photography and P.E. because the exam board submission deadlines are different for these subjects. Please refer to information provided by the individual subject teachers or Heads of Department. Please be aware that reviews can lead to marks going down as well as up. Further information about Non-Examination Assessment can be found in the JCQ Notices to Candidates on this page.Reviews of Centre Marks
Beaumont School follows the Access Arrangements procedures that are set in place by the regulator JCQ. We have a stringent system in place as follows: Years 7 and 8: We build up evidence of need through teacher feedback and assessment. This means that students who may have had test arrangements in primary school will not automatically qualify for the same support until we build up our own evidence of need. Year 9: We test the whole year group (during Autumn Term) for various speeds of working and begin to introduce students who are eligible for EAA to using this as their normal way of working. Year 10: Applications for EAA are made by the school for GCSE (and other 16+ qualifications) . There is an information evening held for parents/carers who have children who have qualified for EAA. Year 12: Applications for EAA are made by school for A-Level (and other 18+ qualifications). A diagnosis of a disability does not automatically qualify for EAA, the student would still have to meet the criteria set by JCQ. Private assessments are not accepted by JCQ and therefore Beaumont cannot accept these. For extra time to be considered a student must have two below average scores or one below average score and one low average score in two different processing speeds during the testing in Year 9 by the qualified assessor at Beaumont. Overview Access Arrangements allow candidates/learners with special educational needs, disabilities or temporary injuries to access the assessment without changing the demands of the assessment. These may involve readers, scribes and Braille question papers. In this way Awarding Bodies will comply with the duty of the Equality Act 2010 to make ‘reasonable adjustments’. Reasonable Adjustments The Equality Act 2010 requires an Awarding Body to make reasonable adjustments where a disabled person would be at a substantial disadvantage in undertaking an assessment. A reasonable adjustment for a particular person may be unique to that individual and may not be included in the list of available Access Arrangements. How reasonable the adjustment is applied will depend on a number of factors, including the needs of the disabled candidate/learner. An adjustment may not be considered reasonable if it involves unreasonable costs, timeframes or affects the security or integrity of the assessment. There is no duty on the Awarding Bodies to make any adjustment to the assessment objectives being tested in an assessment. For more information, please refer to the JCQ guidance, which can be downloaded here.Exam Access Arrangements (EAA)
Special Consideration is a post-examination adjustment to a candidate’s mark or grade to reflect temporary illness, temporary injury or some other event outside of the candidate’s control at the time of the assessment, which has had, or is reasonably likely to have had, a material effect on a candidate’s ability to take an assessment or demonstrate his or her normal level of attainment in an assessment. You can download a copy of the JCQ document, A Guide to the Special Consideration Process 2022-2023 here. Please notify the Examinations Officer, on the day of the examination, if you feel that an application for Special Consideration should be considered for submission.Special Consideration
A copy of the school’s Examinations & NEA Policy can be viewed here.
The Exams Office can be contacted by email via exams@beaumont.school and by telephone at 01727 732923 (with answer-phone).
