2025 Examinations - Information for Students, Parents and Carers

It is our aim to make the examination experience for all students at Northampton School for Girls as stress-free and successful as possible. Well-informed students understand that the rules and regulations, applied through the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) across schools nationally, are designed to ensure fairness and minimise disturbance to ensure that exams run smoothly.

Results Days 2025

A-Level and Level 3 Results

• A-Level and Level 3 results will be available for collection in person via the main school reception from 8.30am on Thursday 14th August 2025. In addition, results will be provided electronically to students via Edulink One and their school email account. These will be released from 8.00am.

GCSE Results

• GCSE results will be available for collection in person via the main school reception from 8.30am on Thursday 21st August 2025. In addition, results will be provided electronically to students via Edulink One and their school email account. These will be released from 8.00am.

Sixth Form Enrolment

• When you receive your GCSE results you will also receive an email inviting you to enrol online.  
• Senior staff, including the Director of Sixth Form, will be available in school between 8:30am and 1:00pm to support students and provide guidance around next steps and future plans.

Post results service and Appeals

The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) has a published process available for any student wishing to appeal their results this summer:
JCQ Post-Results Services
JCQ Deciding what to do after you've got your A/AS Level or GCSE results

There is a two-step process in regard to appeals:

Stage one - involves a post-results service clerical re-check or a review of marking.

Please click here for the 2024-25 Internal Appeals Procedure
Please click here to download the A Level and GCSE internal appeals form
Please click here to download the access to scripts candidate consent form
Please click here to download the review of marking candidate consent form

Stage two - appeals fall into three areas: 

• An appeal against results
• An appeal against malpractice decisions
• An appeal against decisions made in respect of access arrangements, reasonable adjustments and special consideration

Stage One must be completed before a Stage Two appeal will be considered by the awarding body.

It is important to note that both parts of the process, Stage One and Stage Two, must be made by the student through the school.

Appeals cannot be made directly to the exam board by an individual.

Collection of Exam Certificates

You will be able to collect your exam certificates on Tuesday 16^th December 2025 between 3.30pm and 6.30pm from the main school reception.

Please note that you must bring a photographic ID with you, for example a passport.  We can not release your certificates to you without a photographic ID.

If you are unable to collect your certificates in person and would like them to be collected on your behalf, please  email exams@nsg.northants.sch.uk from your NSG email account. The email should include the following:

• your name and date of birth
• the name of the person collecting the certificates on your behalf
• That you give your permission for that person to collect your certificates on your behalf

The person collecting the certificates on your behalf will need to bring their own photographic ID with them.

Please note that any certificates not collected must, according to JCQ guidelines, be destroyed after a year (therefore 16th December 2026).

If you do not arrange collection of your certificates at the allocated time, an admin fee of £10 will be charged.  This is up to and including 16th December 2026, after which time they will be destroyed, as stated above.

Replacing destroyed certificates will incur a charge of approximately £50 per certificate, this is charged by the exam boards.