Public Exams

Summer 2024 exams start 9th May.

Contingency afternoons: 6th and 13th June. (All candidates must be available then in case of a national or local disruption to the examination series)

Contingency day 26th June. (All candidates must be available until this date in case of a national or local disruption to the examination series.)

Summer 2024 KS4 exam timetable

Summer 2024 KS5 exam timetable

Exam timetables are published on the exam board websites if this information is required in advance of being published here.

Pre-public exams

 See below for 2023-2024 dates for Y10, Y11, Y12 and Y13 practice exams. Timetables will be published here when available:

Y11 Autumn PPEs (maths): 30th October – 1st November

Y13 Autumn PPEs: 2nd – 9th November

Y11 English Literature PPE1: 20th November

Y12 Autumn PPEs: 4th – 6th December

Y11 Spring PPEs: 3rd – 12th January

Y13 Spring PPEs: 19th – 26th February

Y11 Spring PPEs (English, maths, science): 27th February – 7th March

Y11 English Literature PPE: 16th/ 17th April

Y12 Summer PPEs: 18th to 25th April

Y10 PPEs: 26th April – 8th May

Summer 2024:

GCE Results – 15th August

GCSE Results – 22nd August

All students will be emailed results.

Forms for post results services can be downloaded from Wisepay/ Exam payments.

2024 KS4 subject and qualification codes

 2024 KS5 subject and qualification codes

 Detailed information about these qualifications can be found on the relevant exam board website:

 AQA                       Pearson (Edexcel)                  OCR

 WJEC

This handbook will brief candidates on the exam and assessment process at The Holt School and the JCQ regulations:

Candidate examination handbook 2022/23

All candidates taking public examinations and assessments must read the following JCQ documents:

Information for candidates: non-examination assessments

Information for candidates: coursework

Information for candidates – privacy notice

Information for candidates – social media

Information for candidates – written exams

Unauthorised items poster

Warning to candidates poster

JCQ Preparing to sit your exams

Certificates must be collected in person and signed for at Reception after 1^st December (KS4) or after the presentation evening (KS5).

It is very important to collect your certificates and look after them carefully, as you will need them in the future and replacements are very expensive and difficult to obtain. The Holt School is not obliged to retain certificates after a year and unclaimed certificates may be destroyed or returned to the exam board.