General Qualifications Bulletin - International - Issue - 67
Dear Colleague
Welcome to the August edition of the qualifications bulletin. I hope you’ve all had chance to take a well-earned rest since the end of the exam series.
Over the past few months, thanks to our amazing team of examiners, we’ve marked more than 108 million individual questions across more than 270 different subjects, to make sure over 6.2 million learners get their grades on results days. I’d like to give a huge thank you to everyone involved for your hard work and dedication this series.
This special results edition of the qualifications bulletin is packed with useful information for teachers, exams officers, students, parents and carers – everything you need to support your learners on both results days.
We’ve also included links to Ofqual’s resources:
- Understanding grading: toolkit for schools and colleges
- Message to school and college leaders: understanding GCSE, AS and A level grading
- GCSE 9 to 1 grade scale explained.
Looking ahead to September and the new academic year, there’s going to be lots to take in. Make sure you and your colleagues – especially any new teachers – are signed up for the Subject Advisor newsletters. They’ll be full of key updates and info you’ll need over the coming months.
And if you’ve got any questions or feedback, feel free to reach out via our support portal – we’ll always do our best to help and get answers to you as quickly as possible.
Enjoy the next few weeks celebrating your learners’ achievements – they’ve done brilliantly and should be really proud!
With best wishes
Hayley White
Vice President Assessment, Standards and Services
Results for Level 2 (International GCSE) and Level 3 (International A level) General Qualifications, as well as iPrimary and iLower Secondary, will be released over the next two weeks.
Results should not be issued to candidates until 08:00am (BST) on 14 or 21 August depending on the qualification. Please refer to the tables below for a final reminder of what’s happening and when.
Level 3 Qualifications
AS/A level inc, AEA, International AS/A level, Edexcel Award, Level 3 Extended Project (EPQ), Mathematics in Context.
Date |
Time |
Details |
|---|---|---|
|
00:01am |
Electronic (EDI) results released to centres via A2C |
04.00am |
Electronic results will be available for centres on Edexcel Online (EOL) Grade boundaries will be available for Exams Officer's to download via EOL |
|
06.00am |
Statement of Results and Broadsheet reports uploaded to Exams Officer's EOL mailboxes |
|
|
06:00am |
ResultsPlus available to centres |
08.00am |
Grade boundaries published and UMS calculator available on our website |
|
08:00am |
Post Results system available to centres on Edexcel Online |
|
08:00am |
Results can be released to students |
|
09:00am |
ResultsPlus Direct available to students |
Level 2 Qualifications
GCSE, International GCSE, Project Level 1 and 2, Edexcel Award Level 1 and 2, ELC(A), iPrimary and iLowerSecondary.
Date |
Time |
Details |
|---|---|---|
|
00:01am |
Electronic (EDI) results released to centres via A2C |
04.00am |
Electronic results will be available for centres on Edexcel Online (EOL)
Grade boundaries will be available for Exams Officer's to download via EOL |
|
06.00am |
Statement of Results and Broadsheet reports uploaded to Exams Officer's EOL mailboxes |
|
|
06:00am |
ResultsPlus available to centres |
08.00am |
Grade boundaries published and UMS calculator available on our website |
|
08:00am |
Post Results system available to centres on Edexcel Online |
|
08:00am |
Results can be released to students |
|
09:00am |
ResultsPlus Direct available to students |
Please note that when results are released to centres they are confidential to the head of centre, examinations office staff and senior members of teaching staff within the centre, the consortium or school group.
You must not disclose your centre’s results, or information derived from these results, with others, including teachers; candidates or parents; regional or national authorities; and the media.
Please see the JCQ Notice to centres: Release of results June 2025 examinations for more information.
You can also find plenty of support for teachers and exams officers on our dedicated results support page.
There’s plenty of support to help you understand your students’ results – and as always, we’re here to help with post-results services and any questions you might have.
We’ve put together a handy guide that walks you through how to understand your students’ grades and what to do if something doesn’t look quite right. It covers how to use ResultsPlus for a detailed breakdown of results and Access to Scripts to view marked exam papers.
Download the guide now: Understanding your students’ results - a guide to our post-results services
We also recommend taking a look at Ofqual’s Understanding Grading Toolkit – it’s packed with clear explanations and answers to common questions like:
- How are exam papers marked?
- How are grade boundaries set?
- How does the quality of a student’s work affect their grade?
View Ofqual’s Understanding grading: toolkit for schools and colleges
You can also view two further Ofqual updates:
Message to school and college leaders: understanding GCSE, AS and A level grading
Grade Boundary information will be available to download via Edexcel Online (EOL) on 13 August (AS/A level) and 20 August (GCSE/International GCSE). Grade boundary documents must be treated as secure and confidential information. They must not be published or distributed wider than to Exams Office staff and the Head of Centre until Thursday, when grade boundaries and results are available to students and teachers on our website. This ensures there is no undue anxiety to learners prior to the issue of results.
As a reminder, we publish both grade boundaries and notional component grade boundaries for each qualification. The notional component grade boundaries can be useful as an indicator of grade performance when, for example, an examination paper is used as a future mock examination. There is an explanation of how grade boundaries and notional component grade boundaries and scaling work at the start of each notional component grade boundary document. It is useful to review these when considering applying for a review of marking and moderation.
To help centres understand grade boundaries for 2025 we’ve produced a short guide explaining the approach to grade boundaries that all exam boards will be taking for 2025.
Understanding grade boundaries 2025 – International qualifications
Understanding results and grades
Our Understanding results and grades: a guide for students, parents and carers provides helpful information for students about results day including understanding results, grades and grade boundaries and where to find further support.
Download Understanding results and grades: a guide for students, parents and carers
You can also take a look at our dedicated results support page for students, parents and carers where they’ll find all the information they need to understand their results.
The Joint Council for Qualifications has produced information to help students understand their options if they’re not happy with the grades they’ve received.
Download the JCQ Post-results Services, Summer 2025 guide
Please do pass this important information on to students, parents and carers.
To help your results day go smoothly, please take a look at our Essential Information EO Support: Results Days 2025 that provides detailed guidance and links to further support to help resolve general issues.
JCQ support for results days
Please do also refer to the JCQ documentation for results day support.
JCQ Release of results: June 2025 examinations guidance
JCQ Post-results services booklet
Post-results fees and key dates – Summer 2025
Please take a look at the fees for all our post-results services and our post-results key dates for summer 2025.
Fees for post-results services (from 1 August 2025 to 31 July 2026)
Post-results services key dates
Should you need to raise a query with us please include the name of the product, service, system you are contacting us about in the description or subject line. For example, of you are contacting us about a priority Review of Moderation please use 'RoMM' or for a missing A level result please use 'GCE result'. This will help us prioritise any queries which are time sensitive and ensure your learners receive the outcomes they deserve.
ResultsPlus
ResultsPlus - our online results analysis tool can provide you with a detailed breakdown of student performance on each question at individual student, class or cohort level.
Take a closer look at ResultsPlus
Access to Scripts
Our popular Access to Scripts* service provides visibility and transparency of marking and helps to inform future teaching and learning. It also helps you make decisions about requests for Review of Marking and Moderation (RoMM) as grades can go up, down or stay the same.
You can find out more about Access to Scripts on our website, along with FAQs and a step-by-step User Guide.
If a paper has been traditionally marked (not online) then these will not be available through Access to Scripts, but you can still request a free copy through the post-results section of Edexcel Online.
Access to Scripts availability for Learner Work Transfer
The Access to Scripts service will be removed for most qualifications where work has been uploaded to the Learner Work Transfer portal for the summer 2025 series.
This means you will no longer have to wait for our processing team to respond to any access to script copy (ATSC) requests with the examiner’s mark breakdown to support any review of marking decisions.
From learner results day, the Learner Work Transfer portal will be available for you to view learner work previously submitted and which the examiner has based their marks on.
You can access the breakdown of marks for individual questions on the learner material via ResultsPlus.
Read more about availability of Access to Scripts and Learner Work Transfer
*This service is available for any exam paper that has been marked online. Written permission must be gained from candidates before scripts can be accessed.
You can read about the review of marking and moderation (RoMM) services available to you, alongside our information on post-results deadlines.
We also have a guide to applying for post-results services on our support portal which includes a video walk-through of requesting a post-results service.
If you need to consider making an appeal after you've received the outcome of a post-results service, you can view our guide to making an appeal on the support portal.
Our Key Dates Finder enables you to find all of the key dates for Pearson general qualifications and subjects in one place. Here are those taking place during the next few weeks.
Date |
Qualification |
Exam |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
10 Aug 25 |
International GCSE |
Nov 25 |
Basedata issued |
13 Aug 25 |
GCE A & AS level, International A & AS level and all other level 3 general qualifications |
Jun 25 |
Restricted release of results to centres |
14 Aug 25 |
GCE A & AS level, International A & AS level, and all other level 3 general qualifications |
Jun 25 |
Release of results to candidates |
20 Aug 25 |
GCSE, Int GCSE and all other level 1 & 2 general qualifications |
Jun 25 |
Restricted release of results to centres |
21 Aug 25 |
GCSE, Int GCSE and all other level 1 & 2 general qualifications |
Jun 25 |
Release of results to candidates |
31 Aug 25 |
All general qualifications |
Jun 25 |
Deadline to request early certification |
1 Sept 25 |
GCSE English Language and Maths |
Nov 25 |
Basedata issued |
Don’t forget, you can also stay organised with our interactive Qualifications Key Dates Calendar. It can also be downloaded and synchronised seamlessly with your own personal calendar, such as MS Outlook.
Take a look at the calendar now
For more information on key dates for post results services please visit our Post-results services key dates web page.
