Failed the GPhC Assessment? Your Next Steps for June 2027

If you have just found out you did not pass the Common Registration Assessment, you are far from alone. In November 2025, 452 of the 1,174 candidates did not pass. Many people pass at the next attempt: 68% of second-time candidates passed in November 2025, and 59% in June 2026. Every sitting's pass rate since 2021 is in our table of GPhC pass rates by sitting.

Nothing has to be decided on results day. The appeal deadline is about three weeks after results day, and the next sitting, in June 2027, is six months after November's results. This page sets out the next steps in order, with every rule taken from the GPhC's own documents and dated at the end.

What your result shows

Under the GPhC's regulations, your result includes the pass mark for Part 1 and for Part 2, your own mark for each part, and your overall outcome. To pass, you need to reach the pass mark in both parts at the same sitting. A high mark in one part cannot make up for the other, and marks are not carried forward to your next sitting.

That pair of marks is the most useful thing you have, because it is all you get: the GPhC does not give individual feedback or a breakdown of your answers. It tells you which part fell short, and by how much.

The pass mark is set for each sitting, so this time's pass mark will not be next time's. We explain why in how the GPhC assessment is marked.

With the results, the GPhC publishes a guide for trainees who are unsuccessful. Read it first, because it carries that sitting's appeal deadline and contacts. Its guide for the November 2025 sitting shows what it covers.

Remarking and appeals

There is no remarking. The regulations say published results are final and individual marks will not be reviewed again.

You can appeal a fail, but only on two grounds:

Procedural: there is reasonable evidence that the GPhC did not follow its assessment procedures correctly, and that this directly affected your outcome.
Exceptional circumstances: something unique to you affected your performance, which you did not know about, and could not have known about, before or during the sitting or the nullification window.

The regulations list things that are not grounds for appeal, including not bringing a working approved calculator, a reasonable adjustment that was not requested or not granted, and choosing to wait for your result rather than asking for a nullification in time. Anything that could have been a nullification request cannot be used as the basis of an appeal.

Two points are easy to miss:

An appeal cannot turn a fail into a pass. If it is upheld, the attempt is nullified and does not count towards your three attempts. If it is not upheld, the fail stands. Either way the fee is not refunded.
The deadline is short. The GPhC's guide says it is three weeks after results day, and the exact date is in the guidance issued with your result. Appeals go by email to regexam@pharmacyregulation.org on the GPhC's form, with your evidence.

If you are appealing, apply for the next sitting anyway by its deadline; the regulations advise exactly that. The exception is a third unsuccessful attempt, where the GPhC says you must wait for the outcome of your appeal before applying again. The full rules are in the GPhC's withdrawal, nullification and appeal guide.

How many attempts you have

At most three, within the time limit you have to apply for registration as a pharmacist. The regulations (1.21) are clear that you are not guaranteed or entitled to three attempts if the time limit runs out first.
Every previous valid sitting counts, however it was delivered.
Some things do not use an attempt: withdrawing before you start and sign the fit-to-sit declaration, a granted nullification, or an upheld appeal. None of them extends your time limit, though.

If you are unsure where you stand, ask the GPhC before you apply: regexam@pharmacyregulation.org or 0203 713 8000.

If this was your third attempt, the GPhC's guidance points out that there are careers that use a pharmacy degree without registration, and suggests talking to your university, a designated supervisor, a specialist careers counsellor or Citizens Advice. Pharmacist Support has a factsheet for pharmacy graduates too.

The June 2027 sitting

Date	What happens
17:00 on Wednesday 17 February 2027	Deadline for reasonable adjustment requests
Tuesday 15 June 2027	Assessment day
Tuesday 20 July 2027	Results day

From the GPhC's Sitting the Common Registration Assessment page, read on 28 October 2026.

The GPhC has not yet published the application window for June 2027; it says it will give those dates closer to the time. In its guidance for unsuccessful trainees, it tells second and third-time candidates to apply in the normal way, by the published deadline. The fee for the November 2026 sitting was £208, and it is not refundable.

Reasonable adjustments: if you were granted an adjustment for all sittings, you do not need to apply again. For a new or different adjustment, the request has to be in by 17 February. Medical evidence can take a while to arrange, so start early.
If you applied to register before results: under the GPhC's guidance for the November 2025 sitting, a registration application that was provisionally approved is terminated and returned if you do not pass, and you will need to apply again.
Fit to sit: if you know of anything that could affect your performance on the day, the GPhC's advice is not to sit. Something you knew about cannot later be grounds for nullification or appeal. If something goes wrong during the sitting, tell the invigilator at the time; nullification requests are due within two working days of the assessment.

The rules on this page come mostly from the GPhC's documents for sittings in 2026. Check the versions for 2027 sittings when the GPhC publishes them.

How to revise for a second sitting

Start from your marks by part. Work out the gap between your mark and the pass mark for Part 1, and again for Part 2. That tells you where the next six months should go:

Short in Part 1 only: calculations respond to practice more than to reading. Work through all nine calculation types under time, little and often. Our guide to preparing for GPhC calculations and the calculations the June 2026 cohort found hardest are a good place to start.
Short in Part 2 only: work out whether you ran out of time, misread questions or did not know the material, because each needs a different fix.
Short in both: split your time, but keep calculations going every week.
Comfortably through one part: keep it ticking over. You sit both parts again, and the pass mark for each is set afresh.

Read the GPhC's feedback on your sitting. After each sitting the Board of Assessors publishes the areas where candidates did less well, and the GPhC's guidance strongly encourages unsuccessful trainees to read it. It describes the cohort, not you, but it is the nearest thing to feedback on the paper you sat.

Plan the six months in stages. One way to use the time between December and June:

Rest, then a baseline. Take a break over the holidays. In January, sit a full paper under the real timings and mark it by area.
Close the gaps. From February to April, work through your weakest areas, starting with the clinical areas the framework says are assessed most often.
Rehearse. From May, sit full papers under the real timings, with both parts on the same day as in the assessment, and review every explanation.

Resitting the GPhC assessment goes into how to change your method rather than just adding hours. It was written for the November sitting, but the approach is the same.

Use the people around you. The GPhC suggests speaking to your employer about the support they can offer. Your designated supervisor knows your practice, and the statutory education body for your country offers learning support to trainees.

Where to get support

Pharmacist Support (pharmacistsupport.org) is the profession's independent charity. It offers trainees free, confidential help, including listening and counselling support, financial help and wellbeing resources, and has a page on what to do when you receive your results.
The GPhC's guidance for unsuccessful trainees, published with the results, lists other organisations that can help, including the British Pharmaceutical Students' Association's graduate office and the Pharmacists' Defence Association.
The GPhC itself answers questions about the assessment at regexam@pharmacyregulation.org or on 0203 713 8000.

It is a hard result to get, and it is worth giving yourself time before planning anything.

Practise for the resit

The GPhC's free example questions are worth working through again to get used to the on-screen platform. For full practice, our GPhC mock papers follow the 2026 format, score Part 1 and Part 2 separately as the real assessment does, and break your marks down by area, which is the breakdown your result letter does not give you. If you want to try the style first, there are ten free GPhC practice questions.

For results day itself, see GPhC November 2026 results: what to do next.

Rules from the GPhC's Common Registration Assessment regulations for sittings in 2026 (sections 1.21 to 1.23, 7.1, 9.2 and 10), its withdrawal, nullification and appeal guide (April 2026), its guidance for trainees who are unsuccessful (November 2025 sitting) and its Sitting the November 2026 guide. June 2027 dates from its Sitting the Common Registration Assessment page, and pass rates from its announcements of the November 2025 and June 2026 results. All read on 28 October 2026. Dose Up is independent and is not endorsed by the GPhC.