Examinations 2021

From Ofqual: Guide to GCSE results for England 2021 and Guide to AS and A level results for England 2021.

JCQ – Examination Results

Provisional A Level results:

Provisional GCSE Results

The Exams Office publishes regular updates, available to all. This is a really useful resource and includes all their updates including from JCQ, DfE and all the examination boards. As well as AQA, OCR and Pearson you will find for example City and Guilds and International Examinations.

You can see updates from the examination boards here. Note AQA’s useful summary on 2021 appeals.

Follow news releases as they happen from Ofqual, DfE and the exam boards on Twitter, using this Examinations list. For Mathematics use this mini-list for AQA, Edexcel and OCR Maths & MEI Maths. (You can follow these lists without subscribing to Twitter.)

From OCR, a timeline from results through to autumn exams.

The fft education datalab blog has some excellent articles. Posts are published regularly. Keep an eye out for their analysis of the 2021 results. See for interest posts from early 2021, for example, Has a GCSE grade C/4 lost its value?and “What are the most popular subject combinations at A-Level?”. This series of posts explores national trends in A-Level, AS-Level and GCSE entries and grades

fft education datalab – Natasha Plaister

A great read for understandably anxious students from Professor Kevin Woods and psychologists at Manchester University is this article on the Ofqual Blog, “Feeling worried about grades this year is understandable. Here are some things that might help…”


Use the following links for each exam boards’ results statistics archives.

AQA Results Statistics    November 2020 statistics are in the results statistics archive.
AQA Grade Boundaries archive

OCR Results Statistics     

Pearson Grade Statistics  Pearson Grade Boundaries

Eduqas Results Statistics (includes November 2020) WJEC Results Statistics  (includes November 2020)

Wales: WJEC Results Day, WJEC Results Archive, Examination and Assessment 2021

2021 exams in Northern Ireland, Qualification Reports and Results Statistics

Ireland: Leaving Certificate 2021

Scotland: Scottish Qualifications Authority


AQA have created a page to provide all the updates to changes to assessment and exams in 2021.
AQA’s Get Ready for Grading includes Assessment Materials for Summer 2021.


OCR – Summer 2021 support including advice for teachers and Heads of Department and latest updates.


Pearson Qualifications

From Pearson Qualifications, we have Summer 2021 support and their latest news on International qualifications.