Our Examinations Officer is Ms Chloe Gatton. Please call her on 01689 819219 or email c.gatton@harrisorpington.org.uk if you have any queries about examinations at Harris Academy Orpington.
On this page you will find useful information about exam preparation and expectations, as well as key exam dates. For details of our exam results please see our Exam Results page.
Supporting Your Child During Exam Time
As the exam season approaches for Years 11 and 13, parents can find some useful guidance on how to support their children via these online links:
Childline - Parents guide to support - Exam Time
Childline - Beat exam stress
Exam Board - Supporting your child at exam time
NHS - Coping with exam stress
Student Mind - Exam stress - Key to your success
OCR - Supporting Your Child At Exam Time , produced by OCR, one of the awarding bodies.
Exam Certificates: Summer 2025
Certificates are now ready to collect!
Please come to the Academy at the below times to collect your certificate Please do not arrive outside of these times.
Friday 12th Dec 09:30 - 15:00
Monday 15th Dec - Thursday 18th Dec 09:30 - 10:30 &15:40 - 16:00
If you are unable to collect your certificate yourself, a person of your choice will need to collect on your behalf. They will be required to bring ID and we will also need confirmation from yourself stating who will be collecting and that you have given permission. Please email this information to info@harrisorpington.org.uk
Exam expectations
School Uniform
All students, including Year 11 students, MUST wear full school uniform when attending school for revision classes and examinations.
Any students who come to school not in uniform will be asked to go home and change. They will not be allowed on school premises.
Exams Equipment
Students must make sure they are properly equipped for every exam. You should bring two black ball-pens, a pencil, eraser,
sharpener and any other writing or Mathematics equipment needed for your exams. Check with your teacher if you think you will need
any specialist equipment.
Awarding Bodies
The main four awarding bodies we use for GCSE and A Level exams are AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR and WJEC. You can get useful
information on the exams process from their websites and all will allow you to download free copies of past exam papers. Their websites
are:
When looking for past papers you should be aware that the awarding bodies refer to A Level papers as GCE - do not confuse this with
GCSE which are the exams students do in Year 10 and 11. You may need to search within different GCSE date categories to find the
subject you are looking for. Every subject has a course code and each paper has a component code - you will find it helpful to have this
code to help you identify the correct exam papers. You will find it on your child's exam timetable under Component.
Ofqual Exams Information
OFQUAL is the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation. Their website contains useful information for students and
parents/carers on the exams process at www.ofqual.gov.uk. In particular you may find the following links useful:
Exam Regulations
There are very strict rules about public exams which are enforced by the awarding bodies. You can download copies of the notices via
the links below.
Exam Board Policies
The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) policies below are used in addition HAO examination policies (see above). We cross-
reference our own policies against the following JCQ policies. The policies listed below are all available at www.jcq.org.uk
Revision Documents
Please see the Page Downloads below.
