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Cambridge International Education
Shaftesbury Road
Cambridge
CB2 8EA
United Kingdom
www.cambridgeinternational.org
+44 1223 553554
info@cambridgeinternational.org
Dear Parent
Now that the June exam series has ended, I wanted to write to you directly, both as the leader of Cambridge
International Education but also as a fellow parent, to reassure you that the integrity of Cambridge results and
qualification have been fully protected throughout this series.
Cambridge qualifications are recognised by over 2,500 universities around the world. In 2025, 90% of
Cambridge students from schools surveyed progressed to university, with 62% going on to institutions ranked
in the world's top 500.
Those universities appreciate Cambridge students not only for their deep subject knowledge, but also for their
critical thinking, research, global perspective and other skills – hugely valuable for students, just like
their Cambridge qualifications across a wide range of subjects.
Our reputation rests on results universities can trust completely, which is exactly what we worked to protect
this series, and what we are protecting for your child.
When a small number of papers were stolen and leaked online this series, we treated it as the serious
criminal act it was. No exam board is immune to these challenges. For Cambridge, the integrity of
assessment is at the heart who we are, what we do and why you can continue to trust us.
The moment we became aware, we acted to ensure students could not benefit unfairly from advance
access. I'm grateful to you and your child's school for the integrity shown in reporting concerns; that
openness helped us act quickly to protect every student's results, including your child's.
We took robust steps: cancelling affected papers and asking students to sit fresh ones; or, where needed,
using ‘assessed marks’ - a rigorous and widely accepted method of awarding marks based on a student's
other performance in the same syllabus. Universities and other users of Cambridge qualifications recognise
and accept results that include assessed marks.
This approach:
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ensures students are neither advantaged nor disadvantaged
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removes any potential benefit gained through access to leaked materials
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accounts for differences in paper difficulty
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allows candidates to achieve the full range of marks, including 100%.