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Cambridge International Education
Shaftesbury Road
Cambridge
CB2 8EA
United Kingdom
www.cambridgeinternational.org
+44 1223 553554
info@cambridgeinternational.org
A message for candidates and their families
As a trusted provider of education around the world, we have been running international examinations for
more than 150 years. Schools enter candidates for our assessments because of their educational value and
because the results are widely recognised as valid, reliable, fair, and impartial by employers, universities, and
other schools. We understand how important it is for our candidates and their families to have confidence in
our exams, which is why we have such rigorous processes and regulations. The responsibility to maintain the
security of our question papers is one we share with our schools.
What has happened?
We have written to your school to tell them that, against our regulations, content from the Cambridge
International AS Level Mathematics (9709/12) question paper was available before the timetabled exam date
in your country. We cannot use 9709/12 to award final exam results for this syllabus. We are therefore
cancelling this paper, and it will not be used to generate results through calculated assessment.
What action is Cambridge taking?
We are providing a replacement question paper for Cambridge International AS Level Mathematics (9709/12)
which is timetabled for Tuesday 9 June 2026. You will sit this replacement paper, along with all candidates in
countries affected by this question paper leak, and we are working closely with your school to make this as
straightforward as possible.
We recognise that asking you to prepare for and sit an additional exam causes extra work and disruption at an
already busy time – for you, your family and your school and we appreciate the frustration that replacing the
question paper may cause. We understand and share this frustration.
We also appreciate that many candidates will not have seen the question paper content before their
timetabled exam. However, we cannot award fair and valid grades to all candidates for this syllabus when we
know that question paper material was shared before the exam.
Our priority is to make sure that no candidate is disadvantaged by the malpractice of a few. We would like to
reassure you that the actions we are taking protect candidates who have not viewed question paper content
before the exam and ensure they receive a reliable and fair grade that allows them to progress with their
education and next life steps. In addition, our actions also make sure that candidates who have chosen to
access question paper content before their exam do not have any advantage and will not achieve higher
marks by cheating.
Can candidates request to receive an assessed mark for paper 12 rather than sitting the replacement
question paper on 9 June?
No. You cannot request to receive a calculated mark for paper 12; you must sit the replacement exam. We
will share more information with your school about June 2026 withdrawals and November 2026 entries by 15
May.