Exam Certificates are kept for a minimum of 3 years. All certificates from 2023, 2024 and 2025 leavers are available upon request. Certificates from years before that are no longer available and you should contact the exam boards to get replacements if you didn’t collect them. Certificates from other years can be collected from the college Reception Monday to Friday, 9am to 3pm. They must be collected in person, unless we have received written notification from you that someone else will be collecting on your behalf.
Please email [email protected] or call 01133239777 if you have any queries.
Exams are a crucial part of your life and Elliott Hudson College will make every effort to ensure you receive the best possible preparation, that administrative arrangements run smoothly and that exams are conducted in a way that will make the experience stress-free and successful.
Please email any queries to [email protected], or ask at Reception.
| GCSE Re-Sits | November and June |
|---|---|
| Year 13 Mock Exams | November / December |
| Year 12 End of Year Exams | June |
| Summer Exams | May – June |
| Cambridge Technicals / BTEC / Applied Generals | January |
Morning exams start at 9.00am and afternoon exams at 1.30pm. You must arrive a minimum of 30 minutes prior to the start time. Registration takes place in the Student Services quad, behind the Hall. Please ensure that all personal belongings including any mobile phones, smart watches or other internet enabled technology are stored away either in your locker, or in the changing rooms near room 1.07.
Timetables will be sent out to students at least 2 weeks prior to the first exam of each season. Paper copies will be handed out in tutorials and electronic copies sent out to your student email address, with an additional copy sent by email to your parent/carer. Your calendar will update to show all of your exams, the room you are in and your seat number.
Seat numbers can change right up until just before the start of the exam, so it is always advisable to double check the seating plan, which is displayed on the Exams Noticeboard, at the back of the Hall, just before your exam.
The dates and times are correct as of 1 October 2025 but are subject to change. It is the responsibility of each student to check their individual timetable on a regular basis and if they are resent it.
Vocational Exam Resits:
Please make sure you have a conversation with your teacher(s) about your whether to resit an external exam.
If you decide you want to resit, you must make a payment on the college store here; the exam board charges for resitting an exam are:
- £47.00 for Cambridge Technical- Applied Science, IT, Health & Social and Digital Media.
- £45.10 for BTEC National- Applied Psychology and Applied Law.
- £37.20 for AQA Applied General- Applied Business.
The deadline for payment is Friday 4th April as per the email sent out following results day(s).
Once you have paid you must complete this form.
NOTE: If you have not paid on the college store, before the deadline, you will not be entered for the exam.
If you are unwell or have been affected by circumstances outside your control at the time of your exam please inform the Exams Officer. Should these circumstances affect your performance during your exams, a request for Special Consideration can be made afterwards. This is a post-examination adjustment based on your individual situation and is at the exam board’s discretion.
If you are unable to attend an exam due to illness or some other serious reason, you must contact college Reception as soon as possible, or at the latest, 8.00 am on the day of your exam. If appropriate, medical evidence must be provided stating your illness, specific dates and that you were unfit to take the exam.
Misreading your timetable is not an acceptable reason for absence.
Access Arrangements such as readers, scribes or extra time are pre-examination adjustments based on an evidence of need and a student’s normal way or working. They allow candidates to access the examinations/assessments without being disadvantaged. The need for an access arrangement has to be assessed by an independent, qualified assessor and an application is then submitted to each exam board. If you had an access arrangement for your GCSEs, or you feel that you may qualify for one, please inform your Progress Tutor, so that the necessary arrangements can be made.
Non-examination assessments and coursework are subject to JCQ rules and regulations. The regulations state that:
- “the work which you submit for assessment must be your own”
- “you must not copy from someone else or allow another candidate to copy from you”
If you copy the work or ideas of others and don’t show your sources in references, this will be considered as cheating (see Plagiarism section of the Student Handbook).
Results must always be collected in person, unless you have given prior written consent for someone else to collect them on your behalf or you can opt to have your results emailed to you.
The person who collects your results must have photo ID.
- A-levels/Cambridge Technicals/Level 3 – Thursday 14 August 2025
- GCSE – Thursday 21 August 2025
Leavers of Summer 2025 – Certificates are available for collection now:
- You may collect your certificates during term time, Monday to Friday 9am – 3pm.
- We will need some prior notification that you will be collecting them to make sure that we have your certificates ready. Please email [email protected].
- If someone else will be collecting your certificates for you, we will need your permission via email first (please include the name of the person collecting).
- The nominated person will then have to show ID when collecting.
- If you turn up without telling us that you are coming to collect, we cannot guarantee that you will get them that day.
Certificates will be available to collect at the following times:
- November certificates – March
- January certificates – April
- Summer certificates – December
Specific information regarding how and when to collect your certificates will be displayed on the college website nearer the time.
As with results, certificates must always be collected in person, unless you have given prior written permission for someone else to collect them on your behalf. A hand written letter, or email to [email protected] will be accepted. The person who collects your certificates must have photo ID. If you want your certificates to be posted out, a self addressed, stamped envelope (sufficient to hold an A4 certificate) must be provided to the Exams Officer.
Certificates are kept for 3 years from the time of issue and then confidentially destroyed. Please contact the exams boards if you need to order replacement certificates, charges will apply.