Exams, Assessments, Information and Revision

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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.

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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.

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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:

• www.aqa.org.uk
• https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/home.html
• www.ocr.org.uk
• www.wjec.co.uk

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.

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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:

• GCSEs, AS and A levels: a guide for students in England
• Resources to help with test anxiety
• Coping with exam pressure - a guide for students 

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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.

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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

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Revision Documents

For Year 7, 8 and 9 Assessment Revision Documents, please see the Page Downloads below.