Exams & Performance data
2025 Summer exams
Important information relating to the conduct of students in exams is given in the further information section below. All students must be aware of their responsibility for appropriate conduct including the items that are unauthorised in the exam room.
Students have access to personalised exam timetables and exam seat details in their Bromcom student portal.
Video transcript
Exam Rules and Guidance for Candidates
This video highlights the rules that apply to your exams. Candidates must be fully prepared for every examination. Here is some guidance:
Punctuality:
- Be on time for all your exams. If you are late, your work might not be accepted.
Exam Conduct:
- Do not become involved in any unfair or dishonest practice during the exam. If you try to cheat or break the rules in any way, you could be disqualified from all your subjects.
Prohibited Items:
- You must not take into the exam room: notes, an iPod, a mobile phone, an MP3 or MP4 player or similar device, a watch, AirPods, earphones, or earbuds.
- Any pencil cases taken into the exam room must be see-through.
- Possession of unauthorized material is breaking the rules, even if you don't intend to use it, and you will be subject to penalty and possible disqualification. If you have a watch, the invigilator will ask you to hand it to them.
Writing Instruments:
- Do not use correcting pens/fluid/tape, erasable pens, highlighters, or gel pens in your answers, although they may be used to highlight questions, words, or phrases within the question paper or question/answer booklet. Candidates may also use a highlighter pen to highlight extracts in any resource material provided.
- You must write clearly and in black ink. Colored pencils or inks may only be used for diagrams, maps, charts, etc., unless the instructions printed on the front of the question paper state otherwise.
Communication:
- Do not talk to, try to communicate with, or disturb other candidates once the exam has started.
Inappropriate Material:
- You must not write inappropriate, obscene, or offensive material.
Leaving the Exam Room:
- If you leave the exam room unaccompanied by an invigilator before the exam has finished, you will not be allowed to return.
Borrowing Items:
- Do not borrow anything from another candidate during the exam.
Permitted Items:
- Only take into the exam room the pens, pencils, erasers, and any other equipment which you need for the exam.
Calculators:
- You may use a calculator unless you are told otherwise. If you use a calculator, make sure it works properly. Check that the batteries are working properly, clear anything stored in it, and remove any parts such as cases, lids, or covers which have printed instructions or formulas. Do not bring into the exam room any operating instructions or prepared programs.
Dictionaries/Spell Checkers:
- Do not use a dictionary or computer spell checker unless you are told otherwise.
Invigilator Instructions:
- Always listen to the invigilator. Always follow their instructions.
Question Paper Issues:
- Tell the invigilator at once if you think you have not been given the right question paper, you think that you've not been given all the materials listed on the front of the paper, the question paper is incomplete or badly printed.
Instructions:
- Read carefully and follow the instructions printed on the question paper and/or on the answer booklet.
Starting the Exam:
- Do not start writing anything until the invigilator tells you to.
Before the Exam:
- Fill in all the details required on the front of the question paper and/or the answer booklet before you start the exam.
- Do not open the question paper until you are instructed that the exam has begun.
Answering Questions:
- Remember to write your answers within the designated sections of the answer booklet.
Rough Work:
- Do your rough work on the proper exam stationery, cross it through, and hand it in with your answers.
Additional Answer Sheets:
- Make sure you add your candidate details to any additional answer sheets that you use, including those used for rough work.
During the Exam:
- Put up your hand during the exam if you have a problem and are in doubt about what you should do, you do not feel well, or you need more paper.
- You must not ask for and will not be given any explanation of the questions.
End of Exam:
- If you've used more than one answer booklet and/or any supplementary answer sheets, place them in the correct order. Place any loose additional answer sheets inside your answer booklet. Make sure you add your candidate details to any additional answer sheets that you use.
Leaving the Exam Room:
- Do not leave the exam room until told to do so by the invigilator.
Prohibited Items (Leaving the Exam Room):
- Do not take from the exam room any stationery. This includes the question paper, answer booklets (used or unused), rough work, or any other materials provided for the exam.
Exam dates for summer 2025
Thursday 8th May to Tuesday 24th June inclusive. The contingency day is Wednesday 25th June.
Results days
GCSE & BTEC Level 1& 2 results - Thursday 21st August 2025
Year 11 results will be available for collection at school on 21st August 2025. Students should arrive at the following times and line up on the concourse before entering the building to collect their results.
- 10.00am Oak house
- 10.30am Rowan house
- 11.00am Beech house
- 11.30am Willow house
They will be given an envelope containing their results and a letter letting them know whether they have a confirmed place at Highlands School’s Sixth Form. Pre-ordered year books and leavers’ hoodies will also be available for collection. Results will be available online later on in the day.
Year 10 students will be able to access their results via the My Child At School app from 10am. Students in year 10 should only come on site if they have accessed their result via MCAS and require the additional face-to-face support of a member of staff.
Highlands School’s sixth form enrolment day will also take place on Thursday 21st August from 10am. After students have collected their results they will have a progression interview with a member of SLT or the sixth form team about their next steps and enrolment. If your child is unable to enrol on that day then you will need to email the sixth form team on team on sixthform@highlearn.uk to advise us, so your sixth form enrolment and choices can be discussed. Year 12 students will be returning to school on Tuesday 2nd September. Information will be provided about the first day and induction process during the enrolment process.
We appreciate that some students may prefer to open their envelopes at home so there will still be an opportunity for these students to speak to a member of staff about their sixth form decision-making process the following day. For this reason, Highlands School’s sixth form enrolment will also be taking place from 9- 10am, Friday 22nd August 2025. Ms Hutchinson will also be available if students wish to speak to her.
Post-results services information
Understanding results and grades: a guide for students, parents and carers
A Level & BTEC Level 3 results - Thursday 14th August 2025, 8:30am
On Thursday 14th August the school will be open from 8.30am for students to pick up their A Level and BTEC results. Results will also be available electronically at 8am on ‘student portal’ (bromcomvle.com) to give students an opportunity to view their results from home and to contact universities as soon as possible, should they need to.
Once students have collected their results from the hall, members of staff will be available to offer support in the canteen. If students do not need any support following the collection of their results, they will be asked to leave the site. This will include support with UCAS and results support.
UCAS Track will go live at 8:00am on results day. Here students will be able to see whether they have met the conditions of their university offer. There is a lot of information on the UCAS website, but support will be on hand with this.
Essentially, UCAS Track will show one of five outcomes:
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Firm offer is now confirmed as a place
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Insurance offer is now confirmed as a place
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The university have not yet decided (in which case I advise to call them)
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A place has not been secured which means students are eligible to go into clearing. In this case students need to follow UCAS track guidance and start exploring which universities have clearing places.
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Students have exceeded the conditions of the offer and can choose to use the ‘Adjustment’ process on UCAS to search for a course which has higher entry requirements than the course they have applied to.
If students are unhappy with the place they have confirmed, they can decline the place and voluntarily go into clearing. Members of staff will be available to support during this process.
If they now wish to take a gap year, they can ring or write to the university and ask them to defer the place for a year; or they can just withdraw from UCAS and re-apply in the next cycle.
If you have any questions before or after results day, please email sixthform@highlearn.uk and a member of the sixth form team will be in contact with you. We hope to see every student on results day and we hope that the outlined system for collection gives you the confidence to attend this celebratory moment. Please note that students will only be allowed to collect their results on site.
Post-results services information
Understanding results and grades: a guide for students, parents and carers
If you have any queries regarding your results, please either call or email the Exams officer.
Mrs C Bell
0208 370 1182
Performance data
Uneven impact of the pandemic on 2021/22 school and college performance data
The government recommends:
- Not making direct comparisons with data from previous years or between schools or colleges.
- Discussing with the school or college factors that may have influenced these results and consider a range of information when forming a view on how well a school or college is doing, including pupil/student population information.