Examinations:
During Year 10 and Year 11 you will be entered for GCSEs and other exams at Murray Park School. You will find important information about what you should and shouldn’t do together with timetables on these pages. If you are unsure about anything to do with exams you can always speak to the Exams Officer (Miss Redcliffe Gordon) or your Form Tutor or Head of Year.
You can contact the exams office on 01332 540024 or email:
Regulations and Documents to Read
There are rules around sitting exams and you should read the documents below, make sure you understand them and ask questions if you need to. If you fail to follow regulations, issued by the Joint Council for Qualifications, you may be disqualified from the paper, the subject or all subjects. Murray Park School expects you to follow exam regulations without question.
Social Media: there are serious penalties for those students who make comments or pass on comments about exams on social media.
- Exam Candidate Handbook 2023-24
- JCQ Information For Candidates – onscreen tests
- JCQ Information for candidates – privacy notice
- JCQ Information for candidates – written exams
- JCQ Information for candidates – non-exam assessment
- JCQ Information for candidates – coursework
- JCQ Information for candidates – social media
- JCQ Unauthorised Items Poster
- JCQ Warning to Candidates
- On your Exam Day
- Guide to Coping With Exam Pressure
- Internal Appeals Procedure 2023-24
- Reviews of Results Information Sheet
Timetables
Upcoming key dates (please see your subject teacher for full details)
Friday 14 June 2024 Y10 Construction event
Wednesday 19 June 2024 Y10 Construction event
Summer 2024
Written papers for Year 11 students taking exams during Summer 2024 will start on Thursday 2 May and Contingency Day (last day written exams can be held) is Wednesday 26 June 2024. All exam students must remain available to take exams until the end of 26 June 2024. This also applies to Year 10 students taking native language exams in Summer 2024. The full timetable is on the link. All students taking external exams this summer have been issued an individual timetable. Please note that some exams will finish after 3pm and students are required to stay until the end of the exam.
On Tuesday 16 April the art, photography, textiles timed exams and modern languages speaking tests begin. Normal exam conditions apply with these exams. You must be on time and drinks bottles/pencil cases and other equipment is expected to match exam standard. The rules regarding mobile phones, watches and earphones remain the same. These will take place almost daily until the written papers begin. The geography pre-release for the unit 3 exam will be issued on or after Friday 22 March 2024 ready for the exam on Friday 14 June.
Year 10 Mock Exams will begin on Thursday 6 June and end on Friday 5 July. These exams are timetabled around the Year 11 exam timetable on available sessions and students will be issued individual timetables in due course. Please read the Murray Park School Exam Candidate Handbook 2023-24 and understand the rules around mobile phones, headphones, watches, water bottles and pencil cases.
Summer 2024 Results Day
GCSE Results Day for Summer 2024 will be Thursday 22 August 2024. This date includes all BTEC and Level 1/2 results. We strongly encourage students to attend, however students who cannot attend results day in person can give their written consent for someone else to collect on their behalf. Uncollected results will be posted home at the end of 22 August 2024.
If you have queries about your subject result, then we would recommend that you give written or emailed consent for the school to access your script (your answer book) so a subject teacher can look at it and compare it to the mark scheme for you. We do not go straight to a formal review of your result without seeing your answer book first. Please look at the Review of Results information sheet which will give you the key date, but you should act as soon as possible. Reviews of results can mean your result for that paper goes down which could make your subject grade fall, so to protect you from that risk, we like to have a look first and then give advice. Note that a Review of Marking is not a ‘re-mark’, but a check by a second marker/examiner to check the first one applied the mark scheme correctly. The overwhelming majority of subject results are found to be 100% correct each year. You should note that reviews can take approximately 3 weeks.
Certificates
Please call the Exams Office on 01332 540024 or email exams@murraypark.derby.sch.uk and we will draw them from archive and you will be able to collect from reception by appointment.
Replacement certificates: if you have lost your GCSE certificates you will need to contact each of the exam boards you took exams with and give them your personal details so they can produce a replacement for you. They usually charge for this service. If you can remember the old exam board name but don’t know the new name we’ve attached a list. Our school ‘centre number’ is 23336.
Replacement statements of results/records of results: if you need a replacement history of your results you should contact Murray Park School Exams Office on 01332 540024 or email exams@murraypark.derby.sch.uk to make enquiries about a copy (providing a record is still available on the school database). You should will be asked for your full name, date of birth and year the exams were taken. The report will be a basic list of subject, grade and date the exam was taken in month and year only.
