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Examination Certificates
Summer 2024 GCSE and A-Level examination certificates
The Summer 2024 GCSE and A-Level examination certificates can be collected from the school's main reception on either Thursday 9th or Friday 10th January 2025 between 4.30pm and 6.30pm.
If a family member wishes to collect the certificates on your behalf, they will need to bring with them a signed note of authorisation. Without written permission certificates cannot be collected. They must also provide proof of identification upon collection.
If you are unable to attend on either of the above-mentioned days to collect your certificates, please email;- jreynolds@uplands-academy.org to arrange a convenient date and time.
Preparing for exams
Be exam smart - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
How to manage your time (ocr.org.uk)
Exams & revision - BBC Bitesize
Yr-11-Keep-up-session-Term-1-and-2-2024.pdf
Be Exam Smart
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Guidance for students, parents, and schools to help students avoid making mistakes which could lose them marks or lead to disqualification from an exam.
Please see the table below for information on recommended revision guides.
| Subject | Revision |
|---|---|
| Biology, Chemistry, and Physics |
The CGP GCSE AQA Revision and practice guides for Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Biology Chemistry Physics |
| Combined Science | Combined Science AQA Revision Guide from Scholastic.
ISBN-13: 978-1407176819 |
| Business BTEC in Enterprise | ISBN: 9781292245607. Revise Btec Tech Award Enterprise Revision Guide |
| Computing |
Revision guides: ISBN-10: 1910523259 Workbooks |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | ISBN 978-1-4718-8700-0 |
| French |
Pearson REVISE AQA GCSE (9-1) French Revision Guide: (with free online Revision Guide) Additional resources: |
| Geography |
GCSE AQA (CGP) Geography Revision Guide: for the Grade 9-1 Course ISBN: 9781782946106
GCSE AQA (CGP) Geography Revision Guide: for the Grade 9-1 Course (with revision and practice) ISBN: 9781782946137
GCSE 9-1 Geography AQA Revision Guide (Oxford) ISBN: 9780198423461
GCSE 9-1 Geography AQA Exam Practice (Oxford) |
| History |
Oxford AQA GCSE History: Elizabethan England c.1568-1603 Revision Guide.
Oxford AQA GCSE History:
Mrs. Underdown’s Group: |
| ICT (BTEC) |
Revision guides Workbooks |
| Mathematics |
Higher New 2021 GCSE Maths Edexcel Complete Revision & Practice: Higher inc Online Ed, Videos & Quizzes: perfect for catch-up and the 2022 and 2023 exams (CGP GCSE Maths 9-1 Revision) Foundation New 2021 GCSE Maths Edexcel Complete Revision & Practice: Foundation inc Online Ed, Videos & Quizzes: ideal for catch-up and the 2022 and 2023 exams (CGP GCSE Maths 9-1 Revision) |
| Music | OCR GCSE Music revision guide ISBN-10: 1785581619 |
| PE BTEC | CGP BTEC First Sport. Study and exam practice ISBN: 9781847624611 |
| PE GCSE |
AQA GCSE (9-1) PE CGP GCSE Physical Education AQA (Grade9-1) Revision Question Cards GCSE AQA PE Revision Guide Product code: JHS44 ISBN: 9781782945314 |
| Product Design |
Textbook: ‘AQA GCSE (9-1) Design and Technology’ by M J Ross, and the ISBN is 978-1-910523-10-0. Revision guide: ‘New Grade 9-1 GCSE Design & Technology AQA Revision Guide (CGP GCSE D&T 9-1 Revision)’, and the ISBN is 978-1782947523 Theory Workbook: ‘New Grade 9-1 GCSE Design & Technology AQA Exam Practice Workbook (CGP GCSE D&T 9-1 Revision)’, and the ISBN is 978-1782947530. |
| Spanish |
Revise AQA GCSE (9-1) Spanish Revision Guide Revise AQA GCSE (9-1) Spanish Revision Workbook |
Year 10, 11 & 13 Mock Assessments
Year 11 and Year 13 March Assessments
Monday 3 March 2025 to Friday 14 March 2025
Year 10 Summer Assessments
Tuesday 24 June 2025 to Friday 4 July 2025
Summer 2025 Formal Exams
EXAM CONTINGENCY INFORMATION
We have been informed by the JCQ (Joint Council for Qualifications), the providers of regulations and examination practices across the UK, that they are planning to hold examination contingency days on:
Wednesday 11 June 2025 – PM
Wednesday 25 June 2025 – AM and PM
These will be used if a significant, unexpected event arises, and students are unable to take an examination when planned and therefore needs to be rescheduled. Of course, we all hope there won’t be such disruption and that the contingency day's will not be required.
All candidates must be available to sit examinations from the start of the Summer 2025 series in May 2025 up to and including Wednesday 25 June 2025, regardless of the dates on their individual timetables.
Examination students will not be expected to be in school that day, unless they have a rescheduled examination; however, they must be available and not away on holiday.