IGCSE English as a Second Language: Listening, Writing, and Speaking
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When will IGCSE results be out? Usually results will be released in August for June series, and in January for November series. Whereas for March series, result usually is released in May.
Continue reading to understand what do those grades on your statement of results mean.
Syllabus grades for all examination types are reported on the Statements of Results as an upper case letter followed by the corresponding lower case letter in brackets, e.g. B(b). This format is used as a security feature to prevent grades being altered by hand.
‘NO RESULT’ or ‘X’ means one of the following:
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For each qualification, ‘PENDING’ or ‘Q’ indicates that a result cannot be issued at present but will follow in due course.
‘UNGRADED’ indicates that the student has failed to reach the standard required for grade G(g). ‘UNGRADED’ will be reported on the Statement of Results but not on the certificate.
For some Cambridge IGCSE syllabuses, ‘TO BE ISSUED’ or ‘Y’ indicates that the result will be awarded in a subsequent series.
For example:
If you sat for the exam in the June series, you will get your result in the November series.
For some language syllabuses, separate oral endorsement grades are reported on a scale of 1 (ONE) to 5 (FIVE). With 1 (ONE) being the highest and 5 (FIVE) the lowest.
Candidates who fail to reach the standard required for grade 5 (FIVE) will have nothing reported on the statements of results.
The Cambridge ICE group award result will be reported on IGCSE Statements of Results for students who satisfy the ICE award rules as follow:
You will find details of the award rules for the Cambridge ICE group award in the Cambridge Guide to Making Entries, which is available from the ‘Support Materials’ section of CIE Direct. (Learn more about Cambridge ICE group award in this post.)
* Note: Related info taken from CIE (Cambridge International Examination).
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hi. i just searched up the grade threshold of 0620 in 2016… the total marks are 160 but it is considered out of 200…. why is this? and what’s the logic of it? i think u divide ur marks by 160 and multiply by 200?
Hi Sarim,
You are right. Just need to take your total marks and divide by 160 then times 200. For example: if your total marks is 200, then you can work it out as this way: 200/260 x 300 = 230
When I get my ICE report card, will there be a total percentage for all my 9 subjects? How will this be calculated?
Hi Bob,
You will see different percentage for each subject.
Hi,
For the Maths (0607) exam, will I only get a letter, or will I also get my overall mark out of 200, when the grades are posted? Also, when will the grades be posted for the May/June 2017 Exams?
Thanks,
Omar
Hi Omar,
First, you will obtain the percentage for the subject, then you will obtain a certificate for the subject. Please check this page for results released dates: https://www.skolatis.com/exam-registration-dates/
Hello IGCSE entre,
I just needed to clarify a doubt.
I’m an A Level student and resitting AS level Biology exam in the 2017 May/June upcoming session along with A level biology. When the results are out in August, will my statement of results online as well as the certificate delivered to my school show the individual marks for AS level biology as well as A level?
In other words, will there be a grade in ‘lower case’ letter (as level grade) and a grade in ‘upper case’ letters (a level grade) in my issued statement of results?
Please keep in mind that I’m writing both of AS and A level in the same exam session. (Upcoming 2017 summer session)
I’ve already asked my exams officer in my school, and contacted CIE but they haven’t given me an answer as CIE only told me to contact my exams officer.So just wanted to make sure since it’s important to have these individual grades for university applications. Thank you so much and I hope I receive a reply.
Thank you,
Nourhan.
Hello Nourhan,
We believe you wrote in through the “Contact” form, and we have already answered you.
Is it possible to use a pen with thermosensitive Ink in the actual IGCSE board exam? because I’m very bad at writing, I keep on mixing up my letters, for example, R for Ps or B for Gs. So there tends to be a lot of scratching out in my English paper and having a messy paper is the only criticism I get from my English teacher. In the mocks, I used this pen which had that thermosensitive ink which disappeared due to the friction of the pen’s eraser… and I got an A in English in my mocks because it was easier to read and correct.
Hi Yamini,
If you can be 100% sure that this ?erasable pen? won?t cause your writing becomes smudgy during the paper handling, you are certainly free to use that. Please beware that, usually this kind of pen tends to cause smudgy wordings when a sweaty hand touches it.
Perhaps you want to try to practise the ?troublesome characters? few hundred times in order to get them right before the exam? So you could write with the ?safer? ball pen.