Examination Certificates

Requests for Replacement Exam Certificates

The following pages contain details about how to obtain replacements for exam certificates if you have lost the original or it has been damaged. You may need these to show proof of your qualifications when you are starting a new job, entering a new educational establishment or joining a professional organisation.

Your first enquiry should be to the school where you sat the exam. If this was fairly recently, your school may still have the original certificate. If, however, you sat the exam a long time ago then the school may no longer have your records, but will be able to give you the name of the board which set the exam. It is this exam board, or its successor if it has since merged, that you need to approach next. A full list of current boards and their predecessors is available.

If you sat the exam in Durham, the appropriate board to contact is most likely to be the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA) Manchester branch. You can contact them at the following address, by phone or through their website:

Assessment and Qualifications Alliance – Manchester
Devas Street
Manchester
M15 6EX
Tel: 0161 9531180 (General) or 0161 5445414 (Candidates' Records)
Fax: 0161 2737572
Website: AQA

The other major exam board in England is Edexcel. Their details are:
Edexcel
One90 High Holborn
London
WC1B 5DN
Tel: 0870 2409800
Website: Edexcel

• More details on the information you may have to provide to get replacement exam certificates and on the different policies of exam boards.
• A list of old exam boards, and which current boards they have formed by merging.
• Contact information for all the current accreditation bodies, including City & Guilds.
• For a list of Durham’s comprehensive schools and their exam numbers, which may be useful when completing application forms, go to Durham Exam Centre Codes.
• For contact details for all of Durham’s schools please go to the schools information page.