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June 2026 exams in Bahrain

Dear Colleague

We hope that you, your colleagues, and candidates remain safe and well.

We know that you need clarity about whether the June 2026 series exams will go ahead and we are writing to share more information with you.

Following the recent announcement by the Ministry of Education, and to ensure the safety and progression of candidates, we will move Cambridge International Schools in Bahrain to the portfolio of evidence route for June 2026.

This means your candidates can receive certification for their work and progress with their education. The portfolio of evidence route applies to Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge O Level, Cambridge International AS & A Level and Cambridge IPQ.

Exams will not take place at your school. Instead, you must now prepare to send us candidates’ portfolios of evidence for us to mark and grade their work. We will not move back to running exams in your country in the June 2026 series.

We know you will have questions about preparing portfolios of evidence and we are here to support you and answer your questions.

All our portfolio of evidence information and guidance is available on our public website, and we have also included links to this below.

We will continue to update you regularly, at least once each week. In our next update, we will provide more information about:

June 2026 exam administration - next steps
Cambridge Checkpoint
Our withdrawal policy
Support and guidance, including how to sign up to our free exams officer webinar which will focus on collecting and submitting portfolios, as well as answering your questions.

Thank you for working with us and for everything you are doing to help your candidates' progress with their education.

If you have questions, please contact us: info@cambridgeinternational.org

Best wishes

Marion Tucker

Director, Customer Support

Portfolio of evidence

For portfolio of evidence, we ask schools to submit a portfolio of three substantial pieces of evidence for each candidate, for each syllabus. We mark this and award grades to candidates so that they can progress with their education and next life steps.

We ask that you and your teaching colleagues read our regulations and guidance, and work together to prepare portfolios for your candidates:

read our portfolio of evidence information, available on our public website. You may find it helpful to start with our guidance ‘Collecting a portfolio of evidence.’ This explains the types of work you can include in a portfolio and gives advice about how to gather this work.
assemble candidate portfolios which meet our regulations and guidance
contact us if you have any questions about preparing portfolios so that we can support you.

Information about portfolio of evidence

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