Together with our Cambridge community of teachers and learners
We are the world’s largest provider of international education for 3 to 19 year olds, delivering qualifications to nearly one million students a year in 10,000 schools across 160 countries.
We recognise the importance of managing transformation responsibly and working at a pace that considers the needs and readiness of our schools. This is why we are working closely with our community of teachers, learners, and schools around the world to develop digital exams based on research, feedback, and testing so that we can be confident that our digital exams are easy to run and meet the needs of both teachers and learners.
Education-led and learner-focused
Guided by the opportunity to assess more of the skills and knowledge that students are learning in the classroom, we are building digital exams only where there is clear benefit for students in terms of exam experience and the ability to prove and improve learning.
The first digital exams will offer the same rigour, validity and reliability as paper-based exams, but with added benefits including:
- Improved accessibility: Students will be able to adjust font sizes, zoom in or out, and customise the background colour.
- A more flexible and personalised experience: Questions can be flagged and annotated, allowing for more efficient planning and time management. Students can adjust the volume of audio clips, and pause and rewind multimedia, giving them control that can help to alleviate some of the stress of exam time.
- Efficient marking and feedback for mocks: Enables faster grading, automated marking for certain question types, and quicker feedback for students taking mock exams.
We are also developing digital exams that offer new possibilities for the way we assess. This includes testing skills that students can only demonstrate on-screen. This will allow us to assess a wider range of skills that students learn in the classroom.
A responsible pace
We recognise the scale, complexities and importance of the move to digital exams for our schools and learners, and we know that doing it right takes time and collaboration. We are taking a responsible and phased approach and working together with schools to ensure they're well-prepared and fully supported in their digital exam journey.
- Over 20,000 learners in 60 countries have already participated in the Digital Mocks Service, which provides a like-for-like experience of a digital exam in a practice setting, so schools, teachers and learners can build confidence.
- We have an Early Adopter Programme (EAP) with a select number of schools, who will be the first to sit digital exams in June 2026 ahead of digital exams being available worldwide from June 2027 onwards. We have been working with centres on the programme since 2024 to support the transition to digital exams. EAP centres provide valuable feedback that helps enhances our digital exam development.
- We will be implementing a phased global roll out with the ambition that by 2033 85% of our exams will be offered in both a digital and paper-based format*.
Find out more about the subjects available in our roadmap.
Together, we’re building the future of assessment.