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WJEC (Cyd-bwyllgor Addysg Cymru) and its Eduqas brand
The Welsh awarding body, sitting Made-for-Wales GCSEs in Wales and Eduqas specifications in England.
WJEC awards qualifications in Wales, where the GCSE grading scale and the qualification suite are different from England's. Eduqas is the same organisation's brand for schools in England, following England's 9 to 1 scale. Students regularly confuse the two, and it changes what your grades look like on results day.
WJEC & Eduqas at a glance
- Qualifications
- GCSE (Wales) · Eduqas GCSE (England) · AS and A-Level · Skills Challenge Certificate · Welsh Baccalaureate
- Grading
- GCSEs in Wales are graded A* to G. Eduqas GCSEs in England are graded 9 to 1. A-Levels are A* to E on both sides of the border.
- Exam series
- Main written series from mid-May to late June, with a November series in Wales for GCSE English Language, Welsh Language and Maths.
- Results
- A-Level results in mid-August, GCSE results the week after.
Worth knowing about WJEC & Eduqas
The specifics below are the ones that change how you should plan. Always check the current specification with your school or the awarding body — specifications get revised, and the version you are entered for is the one that counts.
Wales examines two maths GCSEs — Mathematics and Mathematics – Numeracy — and most students sit both. They need separate revision, because Numeracy is applied and context-heavy in a way the other paper is not.
The Skills Challenge Certificate, part of the Welsh Baccalaureate, is a project-and-portfolio qualification with deadlines across the year rather than one exam.
Eduqas and WJEC specifications in the same subject are often closely related but not identical, so revision material has to match the one you are actually entered for.
Film Studies and Media Studies are unusually strong entries here, and both depend on knowing a fixed set of named texts in close detail.
What each teacher does for WJEC & Eduqas
All eight are AI, and we say so plainly. What is real is the output: sessions in your calendar, sources in your book, citations checked, cards queued until you can recall them cold.
Daniel · Study planner
Takes your WJEC & Eduqas subjects and works backwards from the real timetable. Main written series from mid-May to late June, with a November series in Wales for GCSE English Language, Welsh Language and Maths. Sessions land in your calendar as real events with reminders, and the plan adjusts when a week goes wrong.
Sarah · Subject tutor
Explains at the depth WJEC & Eduqas actually assesses, with worked examples, then asks the questions that check you have understood rather than just followed along.
Tommy · Quizzer
Turns each concept you get into a spaced-repetition card and brings it back at widening intervals until you can produce it cold. GCSEs in Wales are graded A* to G. Eduqas GCSEs in England are graded 9 to 1. A-Levels are A* to E on both sides of the border. Most of the gap between where you are and where you want to be is recall under pressure, not understanding.
Margaret · Librarian
Finds sources, summarises them at three depths, imports them into your subject book and formats the citations in MLA, APA, Chicago or Harvard.
Eleanor · Writing coach
Reads your extended answers and essays for structure and argument, and shows you where a marker stops following you — without rewriting it for you.
Charles · Citation checker
Checks every in-text citation points at a real entry in your bibliography, and flags the ones that do not before a marker does.
Penny · Proofreader
Catches grammar, spelling, and the sentences that technically parse but will not survive a tired examiner.
Sam · Accountability
Tracks what you actually did against what the plan said, and tells you early when WJEC & Eduqas preparation has slipped far enough to need a different plan rather than more willpower.
Subjects students bring us
These are the WJEC & Eduqas subjects we see most. The teachers are not limited to them — if you are sitting something rarer, tell them during onboarding and the plan covers it the same way.
- English Language
- English Literature
- Welsh (First Language)
- Welsh (Second Language)
- Maths
- Maths – Numeracy
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Physics
- History
- Geography
- Film Studies
- Media Studies
- Religious Studies
WJEC & Eduqas: fair questions
What is the difference between WJEC and Eduqas?
Same organisation, two brands. WJEC specifications are sat in Wales and use A* to G at GCSE; Eduqas specifications are sat in England and use 9 to 1. Tell the teachers which one you are on and the grading language, paper structure and timetable all follow from it.
Do you cover Welsh-medium study?
The teachers can explain and discuss content in Welsh, and they can work with Welsh-language source material. Written exam technique coaching is strongest in English, so it is worth telling Sarah upfront which language you will be answering in.
How should I handle two maths GCSEs?
Plan them as two subjects, not one. Daniel can hold separate session blocks so Numeracy gets its own applied practice, which is where the marks tend to go missing when students revise them together.
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AQA
The largest GCSE and A-Level board in England, used by around half of all entries.
Pearson Edexcel
GCSEs, A-Levels, International GCSEs and the BTEC vocational route, all under one board.
OCR
Strong in Computer Science, Classics, PE and the sciences, with a distinctive question style.
CCEA
Northern Ireland's awarding body, with its own GCSE grading scale including a C* grade.
SQA
Scotland's national qualifications — National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher, on their own calendar.
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