Phase 6 – Results and certificates

Understanding and preparing for results

We release results through CIE Direct and then send you a hard copy provisional results despatch. Results day can be very busy so it helps if you prepare:

• Check you can access CIE Direct and the Candidate Results Service
• Book a room for distributing results
• Organise support from colleagues to help you distribute results.

Make sure your candidates know:

• what time to arrive and where to go to get their results
• what to bring with them (for example you may want private candidates to bring photo ID)
• how to collect their results if they cannot do it in person.

To access your results from CIE Direct, download the relevant instructions:

Accessing your results - information for UK and International centres

Accessing your results - information for Cambridge Associates

If you need to make any amendments to statements of results, complete and return Replacement Statement of Results / Certificate Application - Results and Certificates - Form 12.

Candidate access to results

We offer a service that allows candidates to access their results online. You can control which of your candidates get access to this site via CIE Direct. To find out more watch our video or download the relevant guidance notes:

Administering the candidate results service - information for UK and International centre

Administering the candidate results service - information for Cambridge Associates

Administering the Candidate Results Service transcript

Enquiries about results

We offer a number of enquiries about results services.

Certificates, certifying statements, verification of results

We send you your certificates after provisional results are released. This is to allow time for us to resolve any enquiries about results. The certificates confirm candidates' results as final.

Candidates can apply to us if they would like their results to be verified or for a certifying statement (an official document from us to show the grades they achieved in a particular exam series). 

Certifying Statement Application - Results and Certificates - Form 7

Third Party Verfication of Results Application - Results and Certificates - Form 8

If you are paying by credit or debit card, you can apply for certifying statements online instead of using 'Results and certificates - Form 7.'

Priority results information

If a candidate needs their provisional results to be sent straight to a particular institution, they can complete and send us Results and certificates - form 9. We will send the provisional statement of results to their chosen educational institution on the day that results are released.

Results are produced using the name given for the candidate at the time of their exam. 

Results for group awards

You need to be aware of the grading system for group awards so you can answer queries from your candidates when they see their statements of results. See the relevant sections of the Cambridge Guide to Making Entries for more information on Cambridge International Certificate of Education (ICE) and Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE). The Cambridge Guide to Making Entries is available to download from the 'Support Materials' section of CIE Direct.

Candidates can apply for the Cambridge Pre-U Diploma by substituting up to two accredited Level 3 syllabuses from other exam boards, for Cambridge Pre-U Principal Subjects. Download and complete the Cambridge Pre-U Diploma Application form.

Cambridge Pre-U Diploma Application form

The application must be submitted by the centre where the candidate sat the Cambridge Pre-U Global Perspectives and Research (GPR) and Principal Subjects exams. We will accept applications after the outcome of any result enquiries for up to 13 months.