Key dates
Results day, August 2027.
One day, all three levels at once, and two days before A Level results elsewhere in the UK. Everything arrives together.
Tuesday 10 AugustNational 5, Higher, Advanced Higher
The dates
Clearing
Clearing opens weeks before results day and is already listing vacancies by the time grades arrive.
- Friday 2 July 2027UCAS Clearing opensSource
Results for National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher come on the same day, which makes the morning busier here than in a system that spreads them across two Thursdays. A household with an S4 and an S6 pupil gets both sets at once.
For anyone holding a university offer, the S5 Highers are usually the grades the offer was made on, so results day is when a place is confirmed rather than when an application starts. Scottish degrees generally run four years, and entry is often possible a year earlier by age than elsewhere, which is why S6 tends to be the year the application is settled rather than begun.
Grades come as A to D with No Award below, and a numerical band inside some grades. The band is worth reading: it says how comfortably a grade was reached, which is the better guide to whether the next level up is a reasonable step.
Working backwards from the day? The exam dates for 2027.
Common questions
- When is results day 2027 in Scotland?
- Tuesday 10 August 2027, for National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher together. That is two days before A Level results in the rest of the UK.
- Who awards the results now?
- Qualifications Scotland. It replaced the SQA on 1 February 2026 and the SQA was dissolved later that month. Course names, certificates and the diet carried on unchanged.
- What do the grades look like?
- A to D, with No Award below D. Some grades also carry a numerical band, which shows how securely the grade was reached and is a useful signal when deciding whether to take a subject up a level.
Where these dates come from
Dates change every year. We re-check them each September and January, and every row above links to the page it came from.