Exam Information

The information below relates to the nationally-dated examinations that will be taking place in 2025. Some practical and online exams occur year-round; your tutors will notify you of these dates.

Before examinations begin, you should familiarise yourself with the documents published by the Joint Council for Qualifications below.

• Information for candidates – Written Exams
• Information for candidates – On-Screen Tests
• Information for candidates - Use of AI in Assessments 

• Further reading

  • London South East Colleges - Access to Scripts, Reviews of Results and Appeal Procedures 2023
  • London South East Colleges - Special Consideration Policy 2023 /24  
  • London South East Colleges - Candidate Identification Procedure 2023/24
  • London South East Colleges - Student Appeals Policy and Procedure 2023/24
  • London South East Colleges - Handling Digital information and material Policy 2023/24
  • London South East Colleges - Candidate Late Exam Arrival 2023/24
  •  London South East Colleges - Exam Access Arrangements

• Confirmation of exam entries

  If you have been entered for an external exam, you will receive a 'statement of entry' in the post and an email to your student college email with a personalised timetable for the examinations you have been entered for, along with other relevant information. If any of the information is incorrect or you believe an examination is missing, please get in touch with the exams team by emailing exams@lsec.ac.uk.

  You will be informed by text if you have been entered for an online, on-demand external exam. Please ensure that your mobile phone number and home address held by the College is current. 

• Exam timetable for GCSE examinations

  • GCSE English Language
    Paper 1 – Friday 23 May 2025 at 9.30am
    Paper 2 – Friday 6 June 2025 at 9.30am
  • GCSE Mathematics
    Paper 1 – Non-calculator – Thursday 15 May 2025 at 9.30am
    Paper 2 – Calculator – Wednesday 4 June 2025 at 9.30am
    Paper 3 – Calculator – Wednesday 11 June 2025 at 9.30am
  • GCSE Science - Biology
    Paper 1 – Tuesday 13 May 2025 at 2.00pm
    Paper 2 – Monday 9 June 2025 at 9.30am

• Results

  Results – January Exam Sitting: Tutors will inform learners of their January unit results
  Results – Summer Exam Sitting: Results are sent to your student college email at 9am. Please check your email address before the day to ensure you can log in. You can collect your results in person by visiting the campus where you took your exam between 9am and 2pm. Please bring a photo ID.

  Result days are as follows:
  Level 3 BTEC and T Levels - Thursday 14 August 2025. 
  Level 2 BTEC and GCSE examinations - Thursday 21 August 2025

  Results for qualifications that do not include a national exam result may differ depending on the Awarding Bodies submission and certification process. For qualifications where exams and assessments are continuing, the results will be released as and when the Awarding Body processes them.

• Post Results Services

  Appeals
  If there is a severe concern about a result, the College can request a re-marking service from the appropriate Awarding Body. Re-marking should start immediately after consultation with the Head of Curriculum concerned. The final date for submission is within three weeks after the results are issued. Details of the procedures, the fees involved, the d application form can be found in the Access to Scripts, Reviews of Results and Appeal Procedures 2023/24 document.

  Certificates
  The Awarding Bodies issue certificates well after the exams, usually at the end of October. Certificates are posted to your home address once the Exams Team has processed them. Please ensure that your home address details held by the College are current.

• Result information your next steps

  Once you receive your provisional results slip, check all of the details on the slip and let us know immediately if there are any errors otherwise these will be printed on your certificate(s) and you will have to pay for any changes you want to make.

  Certificates (only if you have completed the course).
  Certificates will be ready for collection from late November to mid-December after which they will be posted to your home address by recorded delivery.

  If you have any queries with your result and are thinking about an appeal, a remark or a copy of your exam paper, please contact the exams office or speak with your tutor, we are here to help and advise.

  GCSE Remarks – Closing date 20 September

  GCSE copy of exam script – Closing date 20 September

  You can also access “Post result information” on the awarding body websites:

  Pearson English and Maths - https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/home.html
  AQA Biology -  https://www.aqa.org.uk/exams-administration/after-results/post-results                 

  Re-sits for November 2024.
  With the Head of English and Maths agreement/approval you may wish to resit the GCSE exam, please see the dates below, entries for resits are made at the exam office no later than the 27 of September: 

  English:

  English Language 2.0	1EN2 01	Paper 1: Non-Fiction Texts	Tuesday 05 November	Morning	1h 55m
  English Language 2.0	1EN2 02	Paper 2: Contemporary Texts	Thursday 07 November	Morning	1h 55m

  Maths:

  Mathematics	1MA1 1F	Paper 1 (Non-Calculator) Foundation Tier	Wednesday 06 November	Morning	1h 30m
  Mathematics	1MA1 1H	Paper 1 (Non-Calculator) Higher Tier	Wednesday 06 November	Morning	1h 30m
  Mathematics	1MA1 2F	Paper 2 (Calculator) Foundation Tier	Friday 08 November	Morning	1h 30m
  Mathematics	1MA1 2H	Paper 2 (Calculator) Higher Tier	Friday 08 November	Morning	1h 30m
  Mathematics	1MA1 3F	Paper 3 (Calculator) Foundation Tier	Monday 11 November	Morning	1h 30m
  Mathematics	1MA1 3H	Paper 3 (Calculator) Higher Tier	Monday 11 November	Morning	1h 30m