How long until my GCSEs start?
GCSE written exams run from mid-May to late June each year, with results day on the third Thursday in August. The countdown below shows the days remaining and, more usefully, the number of full weekends and half terms left, because those are the blocks of time revision actually happens in rather than the raw day count.
Last updated 12 August 2026 · Built and checked by the GCSEwiz team
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Days are the wrong unit
Every countdown online reports days, which is the least useful number available. Two hundred days sounds enormous and tells you nothing about whether you are behind. What you actually revise in is evenings, weekends and holidays, and there are far fewer of those than the day count suggests.
So this one shows both. The days, because that is what people search for, and the weekends and school holidays remaining, because that is the honest measure of the time you have. Seeing eleven weekends left tends to focus the mind in a way that seventy-nine days does not.
Your school holds the real timetable
The dates here are the exam season as a whole. Your individual timetable, with the paper you sit on which morning, comes from your school's exams officer and is the only version that counts. Boards publish provisional timetables well over a year ahead and they do occasionally shift.
Check yours as soon as it is issued, particularly if you have two papers scheduled at the same time. Clashes are normal, schools handle them routinely, and the arrangements are much less alarming once someone explains them.