For parents
The questions that come up at home in an exam year, answered from the exam boards' own figures: what a mock mark means, when each exam is, and how a result compares. Everything here is free and works without an account, and nothing you type into a calculator is sent to us.
Tools
Grade calculator
Turn a mock or past paper mark into the grade it would have got on the board’s real boundaries, year by year.
Exam timetables
Every GCSE, A level and IGCSE paper’s date, with a calendar file for just your child’s subjects.
Grade statistics
The share of students in England who got each grade, by subject and year, from Ofqual.
UCAS points calculator
Add up the UCAS tariff points for A levels, AS levels and the EPQ.
Personal statement counter
Count the characters in each of the UCAS personal statement’s three answers against the limit, in your browser.
English literature set texts
The set texts for each board’s GCSE and A level English Literature, from its specification.
KS2 SATs
Past SATs papers from gov.uk, and a calculator that turns a raw score into a scaled score.
Grade boundaries
The boards’ own grade boundaries for every series we hold, by course.
Past papers
Every board’s past papers and mark schemes, linked by course.
Guides
Exams and results
- Mock exams: what a mock grade means · November to January
- Results day: a guide for parents · August
- Resits and remarks · August to November
- Choosing GCSE options · January to March of Year 9
- Extra time and other access arrangements · Before the mocks
- Foundation or higher tier · After the Year 11 mocks
- The 11+ explained · Registration in Year 5, tests in September of Year 6
- GCSE grades explained: 9 to 1 and the old letters · All year, and on results day
Revision
- How to revise so that it sticks · All year
- Spaced repetition: what it is and why it works · All year
- How to use past papers well · From the spring before the exams
- How to make a revision timetable · From the winter before the exams
- How to help your child revise · All year, most of all from the mocks to the summer
University applications
- How to choose a university and a course · Year 12, from spring
- Choosing A levels: what universities ask for · Year 11, from January
- The UCAS application, step by step · Year 12 to August after Year 13
- The UCAS personal statement: the three questions and how to answer them · Summer of Year 12 to October of Year 13
- Predicted grades: how they are set and what they are for · Year 12, summer to autumn
- University open days: what to ask · Year 12, summer and early autumn
- Replying to university offers: firm and insurance · Year 13, spring
- University interviews: what to expect · Autumn and winter of Year 13
- Clearing: how it works · July to October
- Student finance explained for parents · From the autumn of Year 13
- Degree apprenticeships or university · All year
- The EPQ: is it worth doing? · Year 12 to autumn of Year 13
- Applying for medicine · Summer of Year 12 to spring of Year 13
- Applying to study law · Summer of Year 12 to January of Year 13
Oxford and Cambridge
- Oxford or Cambridge: the differences · Year 12, before the summer
- Applying to Oxford or Cambridge: the year, month by month · May to January
- Oxford and Cambridge interviews: what happens and how to prepare · November and December
- Choosing an Oxford or Cambridge college · Year 12 summer to October
- Oxford and Cambridge admissions tests, course by course · Book by late September, sit in October
- Super-curricular activities for Oxford and Cambridge · Year 12, and the summer after
Every guide and tool is also on the guides page, and the university ones have a page of their own.
Tutoring
Cookie Tutoring is our marketplace for one-to-one online lessons. Its pages for parents cover how tutors are checked, what lessons cost and how a parent sets up an account for a child under 13.