Summer Examination Season 2025 Key Dates and Information

2025 Summer Examination Season

May 2025 – 26 June 2025 –  for A levels, level 3 applied quals, GCSEs and level 3 and level 2 vocational qualifications

No examinations take place during the May Half term week  Monday 26 May – Friday 30 May 2025.

Detailed subject examination timetables are available from the following links:

  • A Level Examinations - download here
  • BTEC Level 3 Examinations - download here
  • Cambridge Technicals Examinations/External Assessments - download here
  • GCSE Examinations - download here
  • Level 2 BTEC Examinations/External Assessments - download here

Individual student examination timetables will be made available via CEDAR to students towards the latter part of April 2025

Students should arrive at their exam venue at least 20 minutes before the scheduled start time with their student lanyard and any stationary equipment required for the exam i.e. black pen, calculator, clean copies of required texts etc.

Student Exam information downloads

It is the responsibility of each student to ensure that they read and understand these documents, and that they must follow the Joint Council for Qualifications regulations when undertaking any assessment or examination.  Students can contact the Exams Team at the college if they have any queries.

Special Consideration

Special Consideration is a post examination adjustment to a candidate’s mark or grade to reflect temporary injury, illness or other indisposition at the time of the examination/assessment. The Special Consideration application can only be submitted by the college to an awarding body once the circumstances are verified and evidenced. If a student has concerns that their performance in an exam has been affected for any of the reasons specified they are invited to discuss their circumstances with their Personal Mentor in the first instance. Applications can only be submitted once an examination has taken place and the deadline for submission to the Examinations team will be published for each exam season and information can also be sought by contacting the Examination team directly via email.

A Special Consideration application can only be submitted once the exam date has passed and the Special Consideration application submission deadline  02 July 2025

A Level Art examinations 2025

All students in the final year studying A Level Art, Combined Art, Photography, Textiles and Graphics are required to complete a final assessment conducted under examination conditions. This is scheduled over three 5 hour sessions between March and May.

Individual student timetables will be released via CEDAR to students during the Spring term 2025.

A-Level language oral examinations 2025

The oral examinations generally take place during April of the students final year of study and individual student timetables will be released via CEDAR to students during the Spring term 2025.

French A Level Oral Wednesday 23rd April 2025

Spanish A Level Oral Wednesday 30th April 2025

2025 Summer Examination Results – Results days 

  • 14th August 2025: A level and vocational level 3 results 08:00
  • 21st August 2025: GCSE and vocational level 2 results 08:00

Student results information will be available via CEDAR student portal from 08:00. 

Awarding Body information to help students and parents understand results

2025 Post Results Information

Level 2 and Level 3 summary post results services information for Summer 2024 examination results

Post Results services will be available for a time limited period from results day onwards. The examinations team process the post results applications on the day of receipt, subject to the submission of a fully completed and signed application form and payment being made. 

Information on how to access the Post Results Services will be shared with students nearer to the time of results release.

2025/2026 Examination Key Dates and Information

GCSE November examinations 2025

The GCSE November 2025 examination timetable is as follows:

GCSE English Paper 1: Tue 4 Nov am

GCSE English Paper 2: Thu 6 Nov am

GCSE Mathematics Paper 1: Wed 5 Nov am

GCSE Mathematics Paper 2: Fri 7 Nov am

GCSE Mathematics Paper 3: Mon 10 Nov am

The college has an assessment process in place which considers many factors in determining the cohort who will be entered for exams in the November GCSE exam season. Students will be advised individually by the relevant curriculum department if they are re-sitting GCSEs in November.

Special Consideration application submission deadline – 17 Nov 2025

GCSE November examination results will be released on Thursday 8 January 2026

GCSE November examination Post Results information – will be published in December 2025

Autumn Mock season 2025

The college Autumn mock season is scheduled to take place during November for vocational subjects sitting January 2026 exams.

All students are expected to attend their mock exams and individual timetables and additional information will be issued nearer the time.

Vocational external assessments and examinations January 2026

Many vocational courses at both Level 2 and Level 3 require students to sit an external examination or assessment as part of the course and the examinations will take place in January 2026. Like the summer examination schedule these dates are set externally by awarding bodies and the Joint Council for Qualifications so it is important for students to attend exams according to the timetable information they receive.

The January 2026 vocational external assessment and examination timetable will be made available in November 2025 and students will receive their individual exam timetables in early December 2025.

January 2026 Vocational examination results will be released in March 2026

Spring Mock season 2026

The college Spring mock season is scheduled to take place in early March 2026.

All students are expected to attend their mock exams and individual timetables and additional information will be issued nearer the time.

Summer Examination Season 2026 Key Dates

2026 Summer Examination Season

May 2026 – 26 June 2026 –  for A levels, level 3 applied quals, GCSEs and level 3 and level 2 vocational qualifications

No examinations take place during the May Half term week  Monday 25 May – Friday 29 May 2026.

Timetable information will be available once finalised.

2026 Summer Examination Results – Results days 

  • 13 August 2026: A level and vocational level 3 results 08:00
  • 20 August 2026: GCSE and vocational level 2 results 08:00

Examination team contact details

If you have any queries then please contact the Examinations Team by emailing exams@blackpoolsixth.ac.uk. Alternatively, write to the Examinations Department, The Blackpool Sixth Form College, Blackpool Old Road, Blackpool, FY3 7LR.

Examination office opening hours (term and holiday time) – We are available Monday to Friday 09:00 – 15:45. The office is closed during the Christmas break and bank holidays.  Please contact the Examinations team via email in the first instance. To see all the academic dates, please click here.

The examinations office is the department to contact for any queries to do with examinations held at Blackpool Sixth.

  • Advice on examination issues
  • Examination entries
  • Special consideration
  • Examination timetables
  • Access to scripts
  • Re-marking of Scripts
  • Certificates
  • Liaison with examination boards
  • Subject/candidate transfers

 Certificates

Certificates are not immediately available after the summer results have been published. Awarding bodies send them to the college by early November and then they are checked for accuracy before being made available for collection. Students will receive an email to advise when the collection window opens.

Lost Certificates

If you have lost your certificates the college is unable to help you with  getting replacements. You will need to contact the awarding body yourself to request a ‘statement of results’.

Here is a useful link to a webpage with guidance on what to do.  https://www.gov.uk/replacement-exam-certificate