Functional Skills - Result Release

Attention of all the customers taken exams since 20th September 2023!

We advertise on all our Functional Skills exam pages that  the result “may take up to 20 working days, (on exceptional circumstances may take up to 32 working days), for City & Guilds to mark the exam and inform us.“

This is the standard duration for all the City & Guilds exam centres and exams are booked by you are under these conditions. City & Guilds usually quick in returning results and they were to releasing results withing 5 working days nevertheless aforementioned rule still applies. 

Please be assured that we are checking the result notifications daily and will email you as soon as we receive your results. 

Please see the below statement from City & Guilds Qualification Handbook:

Under usual circumstances results are processed and issued within 20 working days after the completed work has been received by City & Guilds.

Please be aware that as new assessment versions are introduced, all candidate results for those versions will be held until we have received a representative number of completed exam scripts and completed an analysis of the live results to ensure that the pass boundary is set correctly. This is an important step to ensure that the pass mark set is a fair and accurate reflection of the pass standard.

As a result of this, there may be an impact on our ability to issue results within our standard 20 working-day turnaround. Whilst we will do everything we can to issue results promptly and within 20 working-days, please be aware that results may take up to 32 working days.