Exam dates and assessment deadlines

Find out when your assessment periods and deadlines are, how to access your exam timetables, and how to request specific adjustments for your exams.

Assessment periods for 2025/26 academic year

The University's main assessment periods for the forthcoming academic year are as follows:

• Half-year assessment period: 12 – 23 January 2026
• Main assessment period: 5 – 29 May 2026
• Resit assessment period: 10 – 21 August 2026

You must be available to sit your examinations for the entire published period. We may schedule examinations:

• during the day
• on Saturdays
• on days when you may not usually attend classes.

Some Academic Schools may also hold other exams outside the above periods. Consult your local Subject or School Administrator for further clarification.

Where possible, we give you at least a day between each examination. We try our best to spread the dates of your exams throughout the assessment period.

Religious commitments

Religious commitments may prevent you from sitting exams on a particular day of the week. If so, email us.

We can't guarantee we'll be able to avoid holding examinations during those periods. We'll try to schedule exams around religious commitments, but we can only do so if we're notified of them. You must email us before the end of October for the current academic year's exams. We can't guarantee any requests we receive after this date.

Personalised exam plans (PEPs)

If you need any specific adjustments for your exams, please see the Exam Arrangements page for full guidance.

In order for your arrangements to be in place for your exams within a certain month, the exams team must have received your access statement paperwork from Student Services before the corresponding date listed below:

For example, if you have exams in June 2026, the exams team must have your paperwork by 13 February 2026.

We can't guarantee recommendations received after the deadlines shown above. In such cases, we'll put recommendations in place for the following exam period.

When can I view my exam timetable?

We usually publish timetables on NOW, confirming exam dates and times as shown below.

• Half-year examinations: First week in December.
• Main examination period: Second week in March.
• Resit examinations: Second week in July.

Venues are normally added three to six weeks before your exam date, depending on the time of year.