Frequently Asked Questions

Exam entries go live via a secure portal on our website in January. There will be an email to confirm this and to give further information. Do email us to sign up to our mailing list if you have not done so already.

Anyone!  Any age, any school year group, adult, independent learner, UK-based, or international!

Yes! You would just need to find an approved examination centre/invigilator in order to take the exam. See below for more information on this.

Exam entries for UK students are £18 per entry. 

Classics for All cover state school entry fees.

International candidate entries are £25 (to cover international payments, exchange rates, postage, extra admin etc).

The ICCG does not make any profit; the fees only just cover the examination costs and we are very grateful to the CfA and the CA for their continued support.

We charge a £5 administration fee per centre for any changes to exam entries after the final deadline – this could be adding extra candidates, changing names or removing candidates. There may be additional charges for new centres entering candidates after the final deadline and for any very late changes.

Classics for All will only pay for the state school entries made and confirmed before the deadline.

The preliminary exam entry deadline is at the end of February (actual date tbc). After you make your exam entries you will be sent an automated response to check.  A couple of weeks later you will receive an email asking for final confirmation and an invoice for the entry fees.

The deadline for final confirmation and payment of fees is the end of March (actual date tbc).

We will try our best to accommodate all late requests but these will incur an extra fee (see above).

Please see the specimen paper and past papers on the website. The exam is purely linguistic, with some comprehension questions, a translation, and some grammar questions.  It lasts 90 minutes. Candidates who are entitled to extra time and/or any other access arrangements should be allowed these.

The examination can be held at any point during the examination window which is 1st-14th June 2026 (and during the first two weeks of June each year after). All candidates at the same centre must sit the paper during the same session, but the date and time that the exam is taken is up to the centre.

Completed exam papers must be sent to the examiners (a postage label is included in the exam pack) to arrive no later than the Thursday after the exam window closes. We recommend centres use a recorded delivery service for the return of papers.

All standard JCQ exam regulations and conditions apply and all invigilators/centre coordinators will be asked to sign a declaration. These regulations include:

The invigilator should not be the same teacher who prepared the candidates for this examination nor any teacher of Classical Greek. (If this presents a problem please contact us before the examination.)

Candidates must be seated a distance of at least 1.25m apart.

The examination must take place within the allocated time (90 mins + extra time where allowed).

The invigilator must be focused on the candidates and not completing other work.

Marked exam papers are moderated by two external moderators.

At the final examiners’ meeting, grade boundaries will be set and all papers one or two marks below the boundary will be remarked.

We are not able to process appeals, offer remarks or return papers.

Results will be emailed in late August.

Certificates will be sent out in September.

The paper, mark scheme and examiners’ report will all also be available in late September.

The examiners reserve the right to change the grade boundaries as they see fit. However, they will always be approximately:

90% Distinction

70% Merit

50% Pass

There is no quota for each boundary, in fact, we welcome as many distinctions as are   deserved!

Yes, candidates can retake as many times as they wish, however they will have to wait until the following June. We currently do not have plans to offer a second examination series.

We do not provide teaching, although we can often point you in the right direction for tutors and summer schools and we have some resources available on our website.

Anyone can sit the ICCG examination. However, independent candidates have to sit the exam at an approved centre. This is usually a school, college or university.

We hope to be able to offer a couple of UK-based centres for independent candidates and some schools and universities are willing to accept independent candidates. In these cases, the date and time of the exam will be set by the centre and there will likely be additional costs.

If you are an independent candidate and would like to find out more about where you might be able to sit the exam, do get in touch as soon as possible.

Please note that we cannot guarantee to find you a centre and we cannot provide centres internationally.

The ICCG is a QIP which means that UCAS recognises it as an official qualification, although it does not carry any tariff points. UCAS applicants can add the ICCG along with their other educational qualifications.

If you have some resources you would like to share via our website please do send them to us.  We are particularly keen to have more practice papers. We do reserve the right to amend resources and/or not publish them.

If you want any particular resources, please do ask as we may be able to add to our resources bank. However, we cannot guarantee this.

We do not directly, however, we work closely with the JACT Greek Summer School and the CfA who both provide teacher courses. We are involved in CPD for PGCE students. If there is anything in particular you are interested in please do ask.