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Getting Ready for Results 2026
Welcome to your August 2026 Results Day update.
As Results Days approach, this update is designed to provide you with everything you need to feel confident, informed and well prepared. Whether you're supporting students, reviewing outcomes, responding to questions or planning next steps, you'll find key information, guidance and resources to help you navigate the period successfully.
As always, please do get in touch if there is anything further you need. We're here to support you throughout the results period and beyond.
Exam feedback surveys
If your students took exams in the May/June 2026 series, we’d really value your feedback. Your views help us understand what worked well this series and where we can improve. We’ll share feedback with senior examiners and subject teams to help shape future assessments and the support we provide. If you can spare a few minutes, please complete the relevant survey. Thank you.
Support for students ahead of results day
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:
- dates for results days
- receiving and understanding results
- grades and grade boundaries
- what steps to take if they are not happy with their results
- university applications
- certificates
- where to find further support.
Please pass this information on to your students.
Understanding your students' results - a guide to post-results services
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.
Useful Information
Results Days
| Qualification | Results Day |
| GCSE and International GCSE | 20th August |
| A Level and International A Level | 13th August |
Qualification |
Question papers |
Mark schemes |
Examiner reports |
MFL speaking materials |
MFL listening recordings |
GCSE and International GCSE |
23 June 2026 |
21 July 2026 |
From 25 August 2026 |
21 July 2026 |
21 July 2026 |
AS and A level |
30 June 2026 |
14 July 2026 |
From 18 August 2026 |
21 July 2026 |
21 July 2026 |
International A level |
30 June 2026 |
14 July 2026 |
From 18 August 2026 |
21 July 2026 |
21 July 2026 |
Once released, materials can be accessed from the past papers section of our website. The most recent materials are held securely for registered centres for 12 months after release, so teachers can use them as mock exams while maintaining exam conditions. After 12 months, they can be accessed freely for student study and revision.
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.
• 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 2026', 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 11th 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.
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
The deadline for requesting a Review of marking and moderation (ROMM) is 24 September 2026 for GCSE, A level and International GCSE (Service 1, 2 and 3).
View our guide to post-results services
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.
Subject advisor
Rebecca Waker
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