Exams
The Exams Office is open 8.30 am to 3.30 pm during term time.
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.
Beaumont School’s Centre Number is 17511, for use in completing examination forms.
A useful, one-page summary of guidance for taking formal exams, produced by JCQ (which oversees all public examinations) can be read here.
The Exams Office has produced a five minute video to explain JCQ regulations for exams, which can be viewed here.
Year 12 students take Threshold Exams in the second half of the Summer Term, from Monday 2nd to Friday 13th June 2025. The overall timetable can be viewed here. 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 Year 10 will take place from Wednesday 23rd April to Wednesday 7th May 2025. The overall timetable can be viewed here. Students will also receive personalised timetables. End of Year Exams for Years 7 to 9 will take place from 2nd to 6th June 2025. Students will receive copies of their timetables over their Year Group Google Classrooms. Year Group exam timetables can be viewed in the “micro-site” below. 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 – 9 prepare for their end of year exams can be found here. (updated for 2025) We strongly encourage students to do their very best to attend all internal exams. However, we recognise that sometimes illness or injury makes this impossible. In the event of absence from an internal exam, our approach is to treat it like a public exam. This means that it will not normally be possible to arrange an alternative opportunity for students to sit the paper for credit towards a grade, although we welcome students making the effort to complete missed papers at a later stage for their own practice. In order for a grade to be awarded in internal exams, a student must sit papers/assessment components amounting to at least 15% of the marks available for the subject. Otherwise an ‘X’ will be issued. In the event of a student meeting the 15% threshold but having been unable to attend for all the papers/assessment components because of illness, injury or a hospital appointment, we ask parents/carers to inform the Exams Office and provide a note from a medical professional to explain that the student is unfit to attend. In the case of a hospital appointment, the letter informing the student of the appointment will be acceptable. If such a note is received, we will award an estimated score for the missed paper(s) based on the marks gained for the other component(s) in the subject. If no such note is received, we will have to award a score of zero for the missed paper(s) and issue a grade based on the marks gained for the components completed by the student. Any Beaumont School student who was aged at least 16 on 31st August 2024 can take GCSE English Language (AQA 8700) and Mathematics (Edexcel 1MA1 Foundation or Higher) in the Autumn or Summer Series, should you wish to re-sit in an attempt to improve your grade. Please complete an entry form (available for download here or to be collected from the Exams Office), and send by 31st January to exams@beaumont.school or pass to the Examinations Officer. An entry fee and administrative fee is charged, with payments set up via MCAS. Entries will be administered by the awarding body deadline of 21st February. Late entries can be accepted up until 28th March, however the fees are increased as indicated on the entry form. Should you wish to withdraw your entry before 3rd April, the standard entry fee will be refunded as well as half the administration fee. GCSE AQA English Language (8700) GCSE Edexcel Mathematics (Higher 1MA1H or Foundation 1MA1F) STEP (Sixth Term Examination Paper) is a well-established mathematics examination designed to test candidates on questions that are similar in style to undergraduate mathematics. STEP is used by the University of Cambridge, the University of Warwick and Imperial College London. Other universities sometimes ask candidates to take STEP. Please check the details of your course(s) to confirm if you are required to take STEP as part of the application process. There are two STEP examinations: STEP 2 and STEP 3, each consisting of a 3 hour paper based examination. Students are usually required to sit either one or both of the examinations, depending on the requirements of the universities they have applied to. STEP Registration Deadline: 30th April 2025 Please come to the Exams Office to collect a registration form (or download a copy here) and make sure it is returned by the above date. Should you require any access arrangements, please discuss these with the Exams team as soon as possible as the date to apply for such adjustments falls before the entry deadline and it allows for any relevant planning to be undertaken. There is a candidate registration fee of £98.50 per STEP paper. Payment will be set up through your MCAS account. 11th June (morning): STEP Paper 2 For further information please refer to the OCR website: https://www.ocr.org.uk/students/step-mathematics/ The 2025 Summer Series of public examinations runs from 8th May to 19th June (GCSEs) / 23rd June (‘A’ levels). JCQ reserves Contingency Days, should the need for them arise. These are 11th June (afternoon) and 25th June. The general timetable for these exams can be viewed here. It is in the form of a Google Sheet, which candidates can download and edit in accordance with the subjects for which they are entered. Candidates will receive individual timetables, including details of any clashes, in due course. 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 (2025 version) can be viewed here. The Ofqual Student Guide 2025 resources can be viewed here.Internal Examinations: 2024 – 2025
Absence from Year 10, 11, 12 and 13 Internal Examinations
External Examinations: 2024 – 2025
GCSE English Language and Mathematics Resits
Examination Dates
Friday 23d May in the morning: Paper 1
Friday 6th June in the morning: Paper 2
Thursday 15th May in the morning: Paper 1 (Non-calculator)
Wednesday 4th June in the morning: Paper 2 (Calculator)
Wednesday 11th June in the morning: Paper 3 (Calculator)University Admissions Testing – Summer 2025
Dates:
16th June (morning): STEP Paper 3
14th August: Results Released
21st August: Last Date for Results EnquiriesSummer 2025 Examination Series
Students should familiarise themselves with the following information for candidates documentation and be fully aware of the expectations during examinations and assessments.JCQ Notices to Candidates: 2024-25
The following information on the use of AI by candidates has been published by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ): AI misuse is when you take something made using AI and say it’s your own work. You’re not allowed to use AI tools when you’re in an exam. Even if you’re allowed to use AI tools, you can’t get marks for content just produced by AI – your marks come from showing your own understanding and producing your own work. If you’re allowed to use AI tools, you must reference them clearly: When you hand in your assessment, you have to sign a declaration. Anything without a reference must be all your own work. If you’ve used an AI tool, don’t sign the declaration until you’re sure you’ve added all the references. If you’ve misused AI, you could lose your marks for the assessment – you could even be disqualified from the subject. A poster summarising the key information from JCQ can be viewed here.Use of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) in exams and non-exam assessments
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 deadlines for candidates to submit Review of Centre Assessed Marks Requests are as follows: For the majority of subjects*, the deadline for candidates to request a Review of Centre Assessed Marks is within ten days of the receipt of marks or by Friday 2nd May (whichever is earlier). Candidates should receive the outcomes(s) of their review(s) by Monday 28th April. For GCSE Design and Technology, GCSE English Language Spoken Language Endorsement, GCSE Food and Nutrition, the deadline for candidates to request a Review of Centre Assessed Marks is 9.00am Monday 29th April 2024. Candidates should receive the outcome(s) of their review(s) by Tuesday 6th May. * Please note that this date does not apply to Art/Graphics/Textiles or Photography, P.E. and GCSE Media 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 Assessed 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 2024-25 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
Following the issue of results, students can consider various post-result services. Please note that school documentation 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. Post-Result Services informaton for January 2025 series can be downloaded here. The Candidate Consent Form is available as an editable document here and pdf here. Completed forms should be returned to the Exams Office or by email (exams@beaumont.school), with payment via MyChildAtSchool. Post-Result Services are subject to deadlines set by the exam boards and are, therefore, not negotiable.Post-Result Services
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).
