July 2025

Monitoring your email until results release

From now until results release, we may contact you with questions about candidate scripts or candidate exam attendance. Make sure you, or another member of staff, is available to answer these urgent queries. If we cannot resolve the problem, we may have to issue ‘NO RESULT’ or ‘PENDING’ outcomes.
 
Make sure your centre is always contactable during working hours, including school holidays and school closures. To do this, we strongly advise that you temporarily set up your emails to redirect to a colleague or central email address so that someone from your centre can reply if you are unavailable.

Dear Colleague,

Welcome to the July edition of the International Cambridge Exams Officer eNews.

In this issue, there are reminders about our upcoming deadlines and key tasks for this month. There is also information about results release and our post-results services for the June 2025 exam series.

Please get in touch if you need help or advice.

Best wishes
Customer Support  Team

Contact details

Make sure we have the correct contact details for your centre on Direct. See our website (under Phase 1 – Preparation) for details of how to update your contact details and change of address or name, or to request a change to the syllabuses your centre is eligible to enter. If no one at your centre has access to Direct, please contact us.

Previous editions of eNews are available here. 

• Key tasks and activities
• Training for exams officers
• Cambridge Primary and Lower Secondary Checkpoint
• November 2024 series
• June 2025 series
• November 2025 series
• June 2026 series
• other news

We make regular updates to the Cambridge Handbook and we share these throughout the year in our ‘Updates to the Cambridge Handbook’ document on our website. 

If your country is following the portfolio of evidence route for an exam series, some of the content in this newsletter may not be relevant to you. Please refer to our specific emails about the portfolio of evidence route, and visit the portfolio of evidence webpages on our website which include guidance on how to collect a portfolio of evidence.

Survey about your experience of the Portfolio of Evidence (PoE) route

We would like to find out more about your experience of Portfolio of Evidence and how we can further support you through our support and training. Please complete this survey to let us know your experience. https://Cambridge.welcomesyourfeedback.net/mpj2pg

Our key dates cards provide a useful reminder of deadlines. Also see our monthly calendar for things to think about this month.

You can also download the icalendar to save all the key dates to your calendar.

All our training is free. You can sign up for our webinars on the Professional Development Calendar or see details below.

Exams officer online course

Our new 12-week, online modular course (approximately 1-2 hours of study a week), for exams officers who have less than one year’s experience in their role is now available for bookings. Courses will run from July-October 2025.

This new course replaced the 'Getting to know the Cambridge Exams Cycle' course and the 'Welcome to being a Cambridge exams officer' webinar. 

Exams officer webinars

All our webinars are on our Professional development calendar. You can book on to our next webinar below. Please convert the timings to your local time zone.

How to prepare for results release for the June 2025 series

Wednesday 16 July 2025

Join our free webinar for detailed information about preparing for results release, giving your candidates their results and certificates, and applying for enquiries about results. You can also ask our Results and Despatches teams questions. This free-to-access, one-hour webinar is open to all exams officers. 

How to administer phases 3 and 4 of the November 2025 exam series and October 2025 test series 
Wednesday 10 September 2025

This webinar is for exams officers who are running exams in the October 2025 Checkpoint test series and the November 2025 exam series. Join this webinar for detailed information on how to administer phases 3 and 4 of the Cambridge Exam Cycle in line with our regulations. You can also ask our Compliance team questions. This one-hour webinar is open to all exams officers.

How to run exams for the November 2025 exam series and October 2025 Checkpoint test series

Wednesday 17 September 2025

This webinar is for exams officers who are running exams in the October 2025 Checkpoint test series and the November 2025 exam series. Join this free webinar for detailed information on our important exams regulations, updates, how to manage the exams including dealing with the unexpected, training invigilators and what to do at the end of the exam. You can also ask our Compliance team questions. This one-hour webinar is open to all exams officers.

You can check your local timings at www.timeanddate.com.

Changes to Cambridge Checkpoint

We are making important changes to our Cambridge Primary and Lower Secondary Checkpoint test series from 2026. To find out what is changing for each tests series, key days for 2026 and FAQs about the changes, see our new webpage: www.cambridgeinternational.org/checkpoint-changes-2026

There are currently no plans to change Cambridge Global Perspectives™ Checkpoint.

Phase 1: Preparation

Provisional timetables

March 2026 test series

The provisional timetable for the March 2026 Cambridge Primary and Lower Secondary Checkpoint series is available on Direct. The window for feedback has closed.

May 2026 test series

The provisional timetable for the May 2026 Cambridge Primary and Lower Checkpoint series is available on Direct. The window for feedback has closed.

Phase 2: Entries

Making entries

October 2025 test series

The final entry deadline for the October 2025 series is 16 August 2025.

If you are currently making entries, it is important to include candidates’ dates of birth and indicate if English is their first language if you want this information on the diagnostic results reports. We cannot add this information later. If you have already submitted your entries, you can still make changes until the entry deadline.

Withdrawals

October 2025 test series

You can withdraw candidates until 16 August 2025 and receive a credit for the syllabus fee. You can make the withdrawal yourself, using Direct. Contact us if you need to withdraw a candidate for medical reasons or for other exceptional circumstances. See our website for information about withdrawal rules and deadlines.  

Phase 3: Coursework and moderation

Preparing and submitting marks and work for Cambridge Checkpoint Global Perspectives using Submit for Assessment

October 2025 test series

You must submit internally assessed marks and candidate work and samples for Cambridge Checkpoint Global Perspectives through Submit for Assessment.

Visit the samples database to find out how to submit marks and/or work for every syllabus/component you have made entries for.

As the exams officer, you have access to Submit for Assessment, accessed via My Cambridge, but your teaching colleagues may not. There is more information on our website about creating and managing My Cambridge accounts for colleagues in your centre.

Make sure you share this information again with any teachers in your centre who have previously used the Online Learning Area to submit marks and work. 

Phase 5: Exam day

October 2025 test series

Test dates

The test dates for the October series are 6–17 October 2025.

Running exams

See our resources and administrative forms for running tests on our website.

The Exam day checklist, under ‘Extra guidance’ helps you check that you are ready for each test.

You must make sure that your scripts have the correct candidate numbers, candidate names and centre number. If your candidates need additional answer booklets, you must use our Supplementary Answer Booklet - Exam Day - Form 13, not your centre’s own additional answer booklet. You must complete attendance registers before you send them back to us with your scripts.

Packing and despatching scripts

Send your scripts to us as soon as each test has finished. Follow the instructions in section 5.4 of the Cambridge Handbook. 

Phase 6: Results and certificates

May 2025 test series

Cambridge Primary and Lower Secondary Checkpoint results and moderator reports are now available to download from the ‘My Messages’ section of Direct.

October 2025 test series

• Cambridge Primary and Lower Secondary Checkpoint Global Perspectives results available to download from Direct: 18 December 2025. 
• Cambridge Primary and Lower Secondary Checkpoint diagnostic feedback available to download from Direct: 18 December 2025.
• End of series reports available to download from the Cambridge Primary and Lower Secondary support sites: late December 2025. 

Phase 6: Results and certificates

Certificates

You can ask for a replacement certificate using Results and Certificates - Form 12 but you will be charged. The fee for this service is in our fees list in the 'My Messages' section of Direct.. We can only replace November 2024 certificates until 30 September 2026. 

Phase 6: Results and certificates

Results release 

Cambridge International AS & A Level, Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) and Cambridge International Project Qualification (CIPQ): Tuesday 12 August 2025 at 06:00 BST/UTC+1*

*BST is British Summer Time and UTC is Universal Coordinated Time. Please convert these to your local time zones.

Results services

Visit our website for detailed guidance on preparing for and managing results day at your centre.

We will email you later this month with more details about the results services available to you. This will include information about accessing your results, the candidate results service and your provisional results despatch.

Enquiries about results

We will email you about our enquiries about results services closer to results release, and share more information on our website.

Appeals

Every centre has the right to appeal the outcome of an enquiry of results if they believe that they have a permitted reason to do so. This is part of our commitment to provide a fair and equitable system. See section 7 of the Cambridge Handbook for more information.

Phase 1: Preparation

Access Arrangements

The final entries deadline for candidates who need modified papers has now passed.

You must submit your access arrangement applications by the following deadlines: 

• Access arrangements for new entries: 21 July 2025
• Access arrangements for retake entries: 10 September 2025

Final timetables

The final timetables for the November 2025 series are available in the 'Timetables' section of the ‘Support Materials’ area of Direct and on our website. 

Cambridge Guide to Making Entries

The Cambridge Guide to Making Entries for the November 2025 series is available from the ‘Support Materials’ section of Direct. Make sure you download the latest version for your region from Direct.

Phase 2: Entries

Combining ICT and IT syllabuses

Candidates cannot take Cambridge International AS & A Level Information Technology (9626) and Cambridge International AS & A Level Computer Science (9618) in the same exam series because of shared content. There is guidance about making entries in each of the syllabus documents and the 'Cambridge Guide to Making Entries on Direct.  

Carrying forward an AS Level which includes a coursework component

Cambridge International AS and/or A Level coursework components can be carried forward to complete an AS or an A Level. This is only allowed if all of the other non-coursework components of the AS Level or A Level are taken in the current series.

A ‘mixed series’ AS Level cannot be carried forward. This is to ensure consistent application of our rules for carry forward, and to make sure all candidates are treated fairly. A mixed series AS result is one where one of the marks that contributes to the AS outcome is being carried forward from a previous series and the other AS component is being completed in the current series.

Carry forward of results: Cambridge International AS & A Level Design & Technology (9705) for examination in 2025

Cambridge International AS & A Level Design & Technology (9705) has been revised for first assessment in 2025.

Due to the revision of the qualification, there are some changes to carry-forward options available for assessment in 2025 only. See the 'Carry forward of results' document on the syllabus page for more information.

Entries deadlines

You can start making entries for the November 2025 series through Direct.

Make sure you complete your entries by our deadlines:

• Final entries deadline for first-time entries: 16 August 2025
• Entries deadline for retake entries from the June 2025 series only: 21 September 2025
• Late entries deadline: 21 September 2025

Our key dates card for the November 2025 series includes a useful reminder of all deadlines.

Understanding retake entries

Understanding what a retake entry is means you can work towards the correct entry deadline and will not be charged late entry fees unnecessarily. There is more information on our website.

Withdrawals

See our website for information about withdrawal rules and deadlines. 

Phase 3: Coursework and moderation

Cambridge International AS & A Level Global Perspectives & Research (9239) submission window

The window for submitting work for Cambridge International AS & A Level Global Perspectives & Research (9239/02, 03 & 04) in the November 2025 series is 1–31 October 2025. Visit the samples database for detailed guidance about submission requirements.  

Phase 4: Before the exam

Early question papers and pre-release material

Check our website to find out how you will receive pre-release materials. It is important you share this information with teachers.

Phase 4: Exam day

Question paper security

All unused question papers and answer booklets must be stored securely until at least 24 hours after the end of the exam or Key Time, whichever is later. After this time, you can dispose of the unused question papers or you can return them to candidates / centre staff if you want to.

Phase 1: Preparation

Provisional timetables

The June 2026 provisional timetables are now available on Direct. Make sure you download the correct timetable for your time zone. The deadline for providing feedback has passed.  

Fees lists

Our fees lists are on Direct. Visit the My Messages’ section of Direct to find exam series specific fees such as entry fees and enquiries about results fees. You will also find a list for annual fees such as annual programme fees.  

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