GCSE 2020 TIMETABLE

[Misandei]

Is it out yet? asked at DD's school and no one include the head seemed to not know if it was. I'd have thought by now students would know what their exam dates are or is this too soon?

The exam boards published the timetables on their websites quite a while ago. A handful of exams had to be swapped from afternoon to morning (or vice versa) on a couple of dates so that Maths A-level exams could be in the afternoon. But I think it's pretty finalised now.

My dd looked on the exam boards websites.

What exam board(s) are the school using?

AQA here

Been finalised for quite a long while, surprised school don’t know!
This tes thread gives dates foe all exam boards
www.tes.com/news/exam-timetables-dates-2020-gcses
Irritatingly the website/organisation that pulled then all together in one timetable no longer exists

THIS is helpful! I must figure out DS's timetable (he's clueless).

DD's school have sent round all her dates and we have them pinned up in the kitchen.

We also have DS1's A Level dates.

We got the final timetable last week.

great info. Thanks all. Exam boards AQA and Edexel. Can't understand why DD's school don't seem to know anything about it.

The AQA one linked above doesn’t name what exams are on each date unless I’m being dense.

Just looked at Rosie's link. Is there a separate timetable for Edexel iGCSE?

Found it.

@ihatethecold It does. You've got to click on your exam board first (listed) then it opens up a table with all the subjects and the dates.

Gals... are they supposed to all be on the same days, broadly? Like OCR, AQA & EDExcel all have Biology on 12 May & 1 June.

Is that what usually happens, roughly same days if not exact same days for every board?

Yes lljkk all the exams for a subject are on the same day. So everyone doing French, whatever the board, will have reading and listening on May 12 (or whatever). Eng lit will be the same day for all, tho the content of the exams will vary (eg AQA do Shakespeare and Victorian novel while I think other boards do Sh and 20th cent eg).

This is to avoid clashes, as you can imagine, since most schools do a variety of boards so your AQA eng lit might clash with your Edexcel maths if they didn't do this (hope that makes sense).

Also it means it doesn't matter so much if you don't know which board (tho for content you would need to know)

that is super useful, thanks. :)

It also prevents double entering of maths & English.
e.g. Entering OCR Foundation & Edexcel higher for maths.