Carry forward entry rules

What is a carry forward entry?

Some syllabuses allow candidates to carry forward marks from a previous exam series to a later series. Candidates can only carry forward marks for internally assessed work.

Candidates can carry forward marks to:

• improve their syllabus grades for Cambridge IGCSEs, O Levels or Pre-U syllabuses.
• count towards the next stage of their assessment by using Cambridge International AS Level results towards an A Level.

You must make carry forward entries when you make your entries.

Carry forward entry rules

• Marks for Cambridge IGCSE, O Level, and Pre-U syllabuses can be carried forward once. If a candidate carries forward marks to the next series and then later wishes to retake the syllabus, it is not possible to carry forward the same marks again.
• Marks for Cambridge International AS Level can be carried forward twice.
• For all syllabuses, marks must be carried forward within 13 months from the first time a candidate took the syllabus.
• Candidates can only carry forward marks for the same syllabus. For example, a candidate cannot carry forward marks from Cambridge IGCSE English as a Second Language (0510) to Cambridge IGCSE English as a Second Language (0511) because these are different syllabuses
• To see which marks can be carried forward look at the correct syllabus in your Cambridge Guide to Making Entries available on CIE Direct.
  

The table below shows how components can be carried forward between exam series’:

You can find more information in your Cambridge Guide to Making Entries, which is available on CIE Direct.