Assessment, Progress and Examinations

In Year 12, you will have two rounds of mock exams – departmental mocks in January and full mocks in the summer term. These, and a range of other evidence, will contribute to the UCAS forecast grades we will share with you at the end of the Summer Term. In addition, you can expect frequent feedback and low stakes assessment in your subject lessons, to help you make progress. Further detail of what to expect in each subject is shared on the subject’s curricular page on our website. In order to progress directly into Year 13, it is necessary to have completed all set work and maintained good progress.

It is the Trust’s practice to enter all our students, at the school’s expense, for all examinations for which we have prepared them. This also applies to GCSE re-sit examinations in English and Mathematics.

Re-sit examinations are available at CamSF. Students will only be entered for re-sit examinations at parents’/students’ expense. The Head of Sixth Form can agree to enter a student for an additional examination for which the school has not provided preparation; in such a case the entry will normally be made at the parents’/student’s expense. In the exceptional case of a student not achieving our minimum attendance expectation or failing to prepare adequately, we reserve the right not to make the entry. This will always be discussed with the student and parents who will then have the option to make the entry at their own expense.