Edexcel exam timetables
The official timetable for each sitting, straight from Pearson. Check the date, time and duration of every paper before you plan your revision.
Edexcel run three sittings a year — January, May/June and October/November. Not every subject is offered in every sitting, so check the timetable for yours rather than assuming.
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Reading an Edexcel exam timetable
Edexcel run three examination series a year: January, May/June and October/November. Not every subject is offered in every series, and which ones your centre enters you for is their decision rather than yours — so the timetable to work from is always the one for the series you are actually sitting.
A timetable gives four things for each paper: the date, whether it is a morning or afternoon session, how long the paper lasts, and the unit code it applies to. The unit code is the part students most often skim past, and it is the one that matters: WPH11/01 and WPH14/01 can fall in the same week, and turning up prepared for the wrong one is a real thing that happens.
Times are UK times
Published start times are British time. Your centre sits the paper at the local equivalent, which in Sri Lanka is five and a half hours ahead — so a 9:00 UK morning session is sat locally in the afternoon. Never work out your own start time from the published one. Your exams officer issues a local timetable, and that is the authority.
Clashes, and what actually happens
If two of your papers fall in the same session, that is a clash, and it is routine — centres handle them under published rules, usually by sitting one paper immediately after the other under supervision. Tell your exams officer as soon as you notice, not the week before. They cannot fix what they do not know about.
Dates move
Pearson occasionally revise a date after publication, and centres sometimes differ in how they schedule within the rules. The timetables here are the official published versions, kept so you can plan your revision around them — but your school always has the final word on when you personally sit a paper.
Planning backwards from the date
Once you know your dates, the useful exercise is to count backwards. A paper in eleven weeks is eleven weekends; a subject with two papers four days apart needs its revision finished before the first one, not between them. Students who plan forwards from today run out of time at the end; students who plan backwards from the date find the squeeze early, while there is still something they can do about it.