July 2025 Languages Update
Welcome to the July 2025 Languages update.
This is the last full languages update of the academic year and focuses on key support topics, centre feedback and preparing for results days.
Quick links for the June Languages Update
In this update you will find:
Training for our Languages qualifications
We still have training sessions available during the summer term and there are a range of autumn sessions ready for you to register.
Noteably, in response to high demand, we have added additional sessions of our GCSE 2024 Conducting the Speaking training. Whilst there are sessions for each language the content is the same except for the examples used, so if you can't attend your preferred session you can still attend one of the others.
Sign up for GCSE (2024) Conducting the Speaking training
We also have a range of other training available for all of our languages qualifications.
Update to GCSE (2024) French, German and Spanish
In April 2025 we communicated that we would be making updates to the Subject Content, which were published by the DfE in February 2025. GCSE French, German and Spanish subject content.
We have now made these changes and you can find more detail in our full post about it. Rest assured, these changes are minor and will not significantly impact teaching and learning.
In addition, and in response to teacher feedback, we have made some improvements to our specification and SAMs, to provide additional clarity and further improve accessibility for students.
Post-exam series feedback
As we have reached the end of the exam series, we would like you to share your feedback on this year's exam papers. 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 2025 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.
We really appreciate your participation in this process, thank you. Please take a few minutes to complete this survey.
| Qualification | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Results day | A Level / International A Level | 14/08/25 |
| Results day | GCSE / International GCSE | 21/08/25 |
| Question papers uploaded | A Level / International A Level GCSE / International GCSE |
1/07/25 24/06/25 |
| Mark schemes uploaded | A Level / International A Level GCSE / International GCSE |
15/07/25 22/07/25 |
| Speaking materials and audio files | A Level / International A Level GCSE / International GCSE |
22/07/25 |
| Examiners reports | A Level / International A Level | 19/08/25 |
| Examiners reports | GCSE / International GCSE | 26/08/25 |
You can access Summer 2025 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.
• View grade boundaries
• View guidance on setting grade boundaries
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.
Take a closer look at ResultsPlus
Examiner Reports can be obtained from ResultsPlus on results day by following the steps below:
• Log into Results Plus using your Edexcel Online details
• Once you are logged in under your centre, select 'ResultsPlus Analysis'.
• Then select 'Whole cohort results' followed by 'Cohort paper analysis'.
• Select the relevant qualification and series, eg 'GCE' and 'June 2025', followed by the relevant subject and 'View paper analysis'.
• Select 'Exam docs' and you will find the Examiner Report for that component.
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 12 December 2025.
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.
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.
View our Access to Scripts guide
If you're not happy with your students' results this summer, you should take the following steps:
• View the grade boundaries, question papers, mark schemes and examiner reports for the paper/qualification concerned.
• View your students’ scripts using our free access to scripts service.
• Log in to ResultsPlus to see how your students have performed on every question and compare their performance to the national average.
• If you are still unhappy with your students' results, you may apply for a review of marking via our post-results services.
Full details of all our post-results services are available on our website.
• Access teacher post-results support
• Find fees for post-results services
• Find key dates for post-results services
The deadline for requesting a Review of marking and moderation (ROMM) is 25 September 2025 for GCSE, A level and International GCSE (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.
We have a dedicated web page for student post-results support.
Please forward this link to your students where they can find information on
the services for students.
Access student post-results support
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 using the webform. There is further guidance on appeals on our website.
Applications for appeals may only be accepted from a head of centre (on behalf of a candidate or a group of candidates) or private candidates. See the JCQ appeals booklet, 46 & 47.
JCQ guide to the awarding bodies’ appeals processes
Subject advisor
Rebecca Waker
Languages
