Welcome to your Pearson Edexcel Citizenship Studies July 2026 subject update!
Hello colleagues,
This update provides guidance and key dates for the August results period, news and advice for Edexcel Citizenship teachers.
I hope the term is wrapping up smoothly for you and that you're looking forward to a well-deserved break. As always, please do get in touch with me if you have any queries or if I can help with anything regarding our qualifications.
Best wishes,
Jenna Wyatt
Citizenship Subject Advisor
GCSE May/June 2026 question papers are now available to view on our website.
To view the May/June 2026 papers below you will need your Edexcel Online log in.
You can access Summer 2026 grade boundaries on our website from results day. In addition to the official grade boundaries that are produced at subject level, we will also be providing notional grade boundaries at paper level. These can help you mark and assess future mocks.
ResultsPlus is our free online results analysis tool, that gives you a detailed breakdown of your students’ performance in Pearson Edexcel exams.
It provides you with the most detailed analysis available of your students’ performance. ResultsPlus will help you to identify topics and skills where your students could benefit from further learning – helping them gain a deeper understanding of their subject.
Teachers can sign into ResultsPlus using their Edexcel Online username and password if their account profile has ResultsPlus access granted by the Exams Officer.
Examiner Reports can be obtained from ResultsPlus on results day by following the steps below:
You can also use our free Access to Scripts service to view your candidates’ marked exam scripts online or download as a PDF. It is available from results day until the 11 December 2026
Providing a rich source of information, you can use this service to help make decisions about requesting a review of marking, but it can also help inform future teaching and learning and gives insights and visibility that performance data alone cannot provide.
If scripts have been marked ‘traditionally’ (ie not online), you will need to request them, free of charge, by 11 December 2026, via the Post Results section of Edexcel Online as in previous exam series.
Note, you will need 'Exam viewer' in your Edexcel Online profile if you want to download candidate scripts from results day. Please ask your Exams Officer if you need this adding to your profile.
Discover more about Access to Scripts, along with FAQs and a step-by-step User Guide.
"An excellent service, we have used it to inform our teaching"
Take a look at the Access to Scripts case studies to see how a number of schools and colleges have been using this service to evaluate how their students performed in the exams, identify skills gaps, help tailor future teaching plans and to develop staff CPD.
Please note, candidate consent is required before requesting script copies, as per section 4.2 of the JCQ's Post-results services guide. Candidate consent can only be obtained after results have been published.
As you prepare for results day, take a look at our post-results support guide to help you find the information you need to understand and analyse your students’ results, and what you can do if you have any queries about grading or marking.
Understanding your students' results
The deadline for requesting a Review of marking and moderation (ROMM) is 24 September 2026 for GCSE and A level (Service 1, 2 and 3).
Please speak to your Exams Officer if you wish to proceed with a review of marking. Exams officers should contact their Centre Account Specialist on 0344 463 2535 if they require guidance or watch our post results video. All applications for reviews of marking must be submitted through Edexcel Online.
Waiting for exam results can be nerve-wracking for many students. Our guide for students, parents and carers on Understanding results and grades contains helpful information about what to expect on results day and where to find further support
.The guide includes information on:
Please pass this information on to your students.
If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of a review of marking, you may wish to appeal against the decision. We will allow the head of centre (or designated member of the centre’s senior management team or examinations manager) 30 calendar days from the receipt of the outcome of the review of marking, during which an appeal may be lodged by filling in the form below. All appeals must be submitted by the entering centre. We cannot accept appeals directly from candidates, their parents or other third parties acting on their behalf. The only exception to this is if private candidates are appealing directly without the support of the entering centre. There is further guidance on appeals on our website.
This training is for teachers of Pearson Edexcel GCSE Citizenship Studies and provides feedback and insights on the summer 2026 exam series. The session identifies key observations related to candidate performance highlighted in the examiner report and provides strategies to help with your planning for the year ahead.
You will:
10 November 2026 16:00-17:00
As we look ahead to curriculum and assessment reform, we really want to hear directly from those teaching GCSE Citizenship day in, day out.
We’ve created a short survey to give centres the chance to share their views.
Your feedback will play an important role in making sure centre voices are heard as future thinking develops.
If you can spare just a few minutes, we’d be very grateful if you could take part.
GCSE Citizenship Curriculum and Assessment Review - Feedback Survey
From September 2025, new National 14–16 qualifications will be introduced for students in Wales. This has led to a change in Qualifications Wales’s policy on the designation of qualifications, which means several Pearson qualifications that are currently designated for funding in Wales will no longer meet the updated criteria going forward. Qualifications that are determined to be the same, or similar to, the new National Qualifications can no longer be designated for funding in Wales. For other qualifications currently designated, the updated policy places a requirement for them to be available in both Welsh and English.
After careful consideration, Pearson has decided not to offer Welsh-language versions of GCSE Citizenship.
What this means for you
Students starting courses in September 2026 can complete them as planned, with final certification in summer 2028. You won’t be able to offer these qualifications for first teaching from September 2027 in Wales.
If you have any questions or would like to talk through the impact for your centre, please contact us through the Pearson support portal. Our team is here to help.
Thank you for your continued commitment to supporting students in Wales.
We wish to provide students with the best possible exam experience, and your insights are crucial in helping us achieve this goal. If you're a teacher whose students have taken any of our exams in the May/June 2026 series, we are eager to hear your thoughts.
Your feedback will play a vital role in shaping the future of our qualifications and assessments. Your input will be shared with our senior examiners and across our subject teams to help us continuously improve future assessments and enhance the exam experience for students.
Please take a few minutes to provide your feedback, thank you.
Pearson Edexcel GCSE Exam Survey May/June 2026
Ofqual has launched a podcast for teachers and school leaders.
'Can I Just Qualify That?' will be built around conversations that matter and advice you can use. The first few episodes will cover everything from qualification reform and how GCSE and A level grading works, to helpful tips for exam season, results days, and cyber security.
Episode one dropped on Thursday 4 June on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music.
Subscribe to Ofqual's YouTube channel now so you don't miss it.
The Association for Citizenship Teaching is delighted to announce that their 2026 Teaching Citizenship Conference will take place on 3 July 2026 at the V&A, South Kensington from 10am.
Find out more below:
