Understanding and explaining results

Receiving results can be an anxious but exciting time for both your teachers and learners. Resources have been created specifically to help teachers understand results and present how they’re reported to students and parents in a clear and understandable way.

Accessing exam results

All candidates receive a Statement of Results, and if they are successful in the exam they will also receive a certificate. The Confirmation of Entry document you receive from your centre will state when your results will be released.

You can download your students’ results, including your archived results, using our Online Results Service. If you’re having trouble accessing results online, contact your authorised exam centre.

However, the fastest way for your students to get their results is by registering for our free Results Service for Candidates, using the Candidate ID Number and the Secret Number on their Confirmation of Entry. As soon as their result is available, they will receive a notification email.

Explaining exam results to learners and parents

Two videos have been produced to help you explain what the results mean to teachers, parents and learners. We have a video that explains the results for levels Pre A1 Starters, A1 Movers and A2 Flyers, and another video that explains the results for A2 Key up to C2 Proficiency.

Verifying and understanding results

Employers, universities or other organisations can use the online Results Verification Service to check your students’ results quickly, easily and securely.

Cambridge English Qualifications provide institutions with meaningful, detailed results for applicants. They are a reliable indicator of language ability and help universities, employers and institutions to be sure of a student’s English language skills.

We have developed a guide to understanding results for our exams. It includes information about B2 First, C1 Advanced and C2 Proficiency.

Download the guide to understanding results

Cambridge English Scale

We use the Cambridge English Scale to provide you with more detailed information about exam performance. It has been designed to complement the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

Learn more about the Cambridge English Scale and the benefits it brings to results reporting.

Group performance reports

You can use our Online Results Service to review group performance reports for your preparation centre. The reports enable registered preparation centres to see how your students performed by skill, by grade, by Cambridge English Scale score, etc., and to compare performance by year and against national and global averages.

The reports cover all Cambridge English Qualifications from Pre A1 Starters to C2 Proficiency, including all of the Cambridge English Qualifications Business exams. To access the reports, log in to the Online Results Service using your preparation centre’s normal log-in details, and click on the Performance Reports tab. The user guide explains how the reports work.

Download the user guide

Grade statistics

Grade statistics give the average percentages in each grade for all sessions of a particular exam by country or territory.

This information is helpful to teachers who want to understand how students perform in an exam in their country or region.