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May 2025

1 May

Preliminary Material for GCSE English (8702/A) June 2025 series
GCSE English Literature: Telling Tales: short story anthology 8702/A. Dispatched as paper copy only from order form, requests from mid-September

1 May

Preliminary Material for GCSE English (8702/B/1) June 2025 series
GCSE English Literature Poetry Anthology: Love & Relationships 8702/B/1. Dispatched as paper copy only from order form, requests from mid-September

1 May

Preliminary Material for GCSE English (8702/B/2) June 2025 series
GCSE English Literature Poetry Anthology: Power & Conflict 8702/B/2. Dispatched as paper copy only from order form, requests from mid-September

1 May

Preliminary Material for GCSE English (8702/B/3) June 2025 series
GCSE English Literature Poetry Anthology: Worlds & Lives 8702/B/3. Dispatched as paper copy only from order form, requests from mid-September

7 May

Non-exam assessment submission deadline for GCSE English Language (8700/C) June 2025 series
Schools and colleges may set their own internal deadlines.

12 May

Exam for GCSE English Literature Paper 1 (8702/1) June 2025 series
Start time: am
Duration: 1h 45m

20 May

Exam for GCSE English Literature Paper 2 (8702/2) June 2025 series
Start time: am
Duration: 2h 15m

23 May

Exam for GCSE English Language Paper 1 (8700/1) June 2025 series
Start time: am
Duration: 1h 45m

June 2025

6 June

Exam for GCSE English Language Paper 2 (8700/2) June 2025 series
Start time: am
Duration: 1h 45m