Examinations

The designation of contingency days within the common examination timetable is in the event of national or significant local disruption to examinations in the United Kingdom. It is part of the awarding bodies’ standard contingency planning for examinations.

Candidates are reminded that they must remain available until Wednesday 24th June 2026 should an awarding body need to invoke its contingency plan.

GCSE Results Day - Thursday 20th August 2026

GCSE exam results can be collected by students from school between 9:30am and 11am on Thursday 20th August 2026. If someone is collecting results on a student's behalf, then the exams team will need an email from the student in advance to authorise the collection: (J.Price1@arkblake.org and a.sylvestre@arkblake.org). The nominated person will also need to bring with them photo ID on the day for verification purposes. We regret that results cannot be given over the telephone. Lastly, any uncollected results will be emailed to students on their school address at 12pm. 

GCSE results will be available for collection on Thursday 20th August 2026 from 9am to 11 am.

All results that are not collected will be emailed to student email addresses from 1pm on the day of the results.

Post Results Service

Concerned about a result?

There are a few different services available:

• Service 1 - Clerical re check
• Service 2 - Review of marking
• Service 3 - Access to scripts

Service 1 - Clerical Re-check - deadline 9am 25th September 2026

What does this service entail?

-A re-check of all the clerical procedures leading to the issue of a result.  This service will include the following checks:

1. That all parts of the script have been marked
2. The totaling of marks
3. The recording of marks
4. Fee £15 per script payable via iPayimpact

Service 2 - Review of Marking - deadline 9am 25th September 2026

 What does this service entail?

-This is a post-results review of the original marking to ensure that the mark scheme has been applied correctly.
-THIS IS NOT A RE-MARK
-Fee £55 per script payable via iPayimpact

Service 3 - Access to Scripts - deadline 9am 25th September 2026

- This service is completely free

PAYMENT
On completing a request for one of the above services, a payment will be added to your iPayimpact account.  We cannot action any requests for post results services until payment has been made.

If you do receive an amended review of marking and your grade changes, you are entitled to a refund.  In order for us to make a refund to you we require you to pay for each review separately, should you have made multiple requests.