Edexcel Online: Tracking Question Papers / UK and International Exam Paper Dispatch Dates

You can expect to start receiving standard and modified question papers from the following dates:

UK Centres

• For GCSE Maths or English exams, you can expect to start receiving standard and modified question papers from 14 October 2025.

You can track your standard question paper despatch for general qualifications or view who signed for the package via Edexcel Online. Please see the next section for an interactive guide on tracking papers.

If you require electronic copies of these question papers, please check your EOL accounts are up-to-date, ensuring you have access to our Secure Download Service (SDS). 

You may receive more than one delivery across the session due to the number of exams and individual centres' storage facilities; therefore, please check the tracking information before contacting us.

Please click on the image below to access an interactive guide on how to track question papers for the following qualifications via Edexcel Online:

• BTEC Tech Awards (from Sept 2022)
• GCE/A Level
• GCSE & International GCSE
• Pearson English International Certificate (PEIC)
• Edexcel Awards
• International PLSC
• International A Level (IAL)
• Mathematics in Context 

We currently do not operate an online system for tracking the delivery of question papers for qualifications managed through our BTEC & Functional Skills menu option on Edexcel Online. Please create a case, and a Customer Services Specialist will provide you with a delivery update within two working days.

If you require electronic copies of these question papers, please check your Edexcel Online accounts are up to date, ensuring you have access to our Secure Download Service (SDS).

Modified formats

• Not all papers will be dispatched at the same time; they will be sent as soon as they are ready.
• If it is a late order, they may not arrive until the day of the exam, or they will be sent electronically on that day.

We will commence the despatch of the November 2025/January 2026 exam series modified question papers on the following dates:

UK Centres

• For GCSE Maths or English November 2025 exams, you can expect to start receiving modified question papers from 14 October 2025.

International Centres

• International A Level (IAL) January 2026 exams, we will start to despatch your modified question papers from: Wednesday 19 November 
• Edexcel Award January 2026 exams, we will start to despatch your modified question papers from: Monday 24 November

Any modified paper orders you have made for Large Print or Braille will be dispatched separately to your standard exam materials and will be in green tamper-proof packaging to help you differentiate these from the standard papers. We strive to deliver papers to centres a minimum of 5 days before an examination date. Where physical papers cannot be delivered due to late orders, we will send a PDF copy via Secure File Transfer.

January 2026 exam series support

If your centre requires access to electronic copies of question papers in the January 2026 exam series, for example if you make a very late entry or need to print onto coloured paper, they will be available to download on the Secure Download Service (SDS). This also includes audio files and transcripts for listening exams. Our recommendation is that a minimum of two members of centre staff have SDS included in their Edexcel Online (EOL) profile.

If your exam staff do not already have SDS added to their EOL profile, they will need to contact us and be available to receive a secure call-back from our Customer Services Specialist on your centre's main telephone number. Once this call has been performed successfully, access to the SDS platform will be added to their account.

It is important that all exam staff can access SDS as we will not be able to send electronic question papers via Secure File Transfer (SFT), on the day of the exam, without a secure call back to your centre’s main telephone number first. This could result in logistical challenges for your centre at a critical time in the day - with staff required to move between an exam hall and your reception/ exam office. This may result in delays, including potentially impacting the start time of the exam in question. To avoid this please make checks to your exam staff EOL profiles (and specifically SDS) today. 

Very Late Entries  

If you make any entries a week or less before the date of the exam, hard copies will not be sent to your centre. You will need to print the required amount of question papers from an electronic copy.

Electronic copies of question papers will be available via SDS if you are making additional entries. If you are making an entry for the first time this series for a new subject/paper, please contact us to request the question paper to be sent via (Secure File Transfer) SFT. This also includes late transferred candidate applications. 

Missing question papers

Question papers will only be delivered, providing entries have been made for a subject. Therefore, first, please check your entries.

If you have any questions or need support, please contact us via the Pearson support portal so that we can help you resolve any issues well ahead of the exam series.    

Question papers 'Pending' on the tracking list

Please only contact us if it is within 7 days of the exam taking place. 

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