A/L Results 2026 Sri Lanka: Release Date and How to Check

This page does three small jobs: it says whether the 2026 G.C.E. (A/L) results are out, it points you at the two official places to check them, and it prices a re-scrutiny application. Everything on it is read from a data file that names its source line by line, and anything that comes from a news report rather than a Department or UGC document is marked "reported".

Release status. The Department of Examinations publishes results notices on doenets.lk. Until the 2026 notice appears, the card above shows the only statement that exists: the Commissioner General's reported remark that results will come before the end of the year. The countdown counts to the end of that window, not to a date. When the notice is published the card switches to "Released on" and links it. Last checked 5 November 2026.

The 2026 examination, as reported. The exam ran from 10 August 2026 to 5 September 2026. News reports citing the Department put the candidates at 372,310 (264,496 school and 107,814 private) at 2,532 centres. Marking was due to finish by 25 October 2026; the Department has not said whether it did. The exam dates are on the Department's own time table; the other figures are reported.

Checking the result. Both official sites ask for the examination index number. The online result prints 9 fields: name, index number, nic, subject grades, common general test mark, district rank, island rank, z-score, subject stream. The Z-score, district rank and island rank come from this page, not from a separate publication. The Department names no SMS service in its 2025 or 2026 press reports, so this page prints no short code.

Re-scrutiny fee. The calculator multiplies the number of subjects by the fee in the Department's latest re-scrutiny notice, for the G.C.E. (A/L) Examination 2025: Rs 250 a subject, online only, same index number and NIC, card or post-office payment, not refundable, window 6 April 2026 to 22 April 2026. The 2026 fee is set by the 2026 notice, which follows the results. Until then the calculator says in words that it is using last year's figure.

What happens next. The timeline table below is the record of the 2025 cycle, with each row marked official or reported. The "try a release date" box reuses the gaps measured on that record (re-scrutiny opened 6 days after results for 17 days, the UGC call opened 28 days after, cut-offs 122 days after). Those gaps are not a rule. The 2024 cycle's UGC call opened 13 days after results, so the box is an illustration and says so.

Next steps. Your Z-score is the number the UGC ranks you on. The Z-score calculator shows how it is built from three raw marks, and the cut-off finder holds the UGC's official 2025/2026 district cut-offs for the most-searched courses. The 2026/2027 cut-offs will not exist until months after the results.

The dates below are the ones this page's estimates are built on. Official rows come from a Department or UGC document; reported rows come from news reports and were not found on an official page.

Last year, as reported: 281,810 sat, 176,527 (62.64%) qualified for university admission, 111 results were withheld, and 7,477 school candidates (3.38%) and 823 private candidates got three As.

• Department of Examinations: G.C.E. (A/L) 2025 re-scrutiny of results notice, 06.04.2026 (PDF)
• Department of Examinations: School Exam Results (doenets.lk/examresults)
• Department of Examinations: notices feed (CMS NEWS JSON)
• UGC: University Admission 2025/2026 paper advertisement (PDF)
• UGC: University Admission 2024/2025 paper advertisement (PDF)
• UGC: Minimum Z-scores by course and district, 2025/2026 (PDF)
• Ada Derana, 10 August 2026: 2026 A/L results to be released before year-end (reported)
• Newsfirst, 6 September 2026: A/L evaluation commences, results expected before year end (reported)
• Ada Derana, 1 April 2026: 2025 A/L results released, headline statistics (reported)

Official figures were read from the documents above on 2026-11-05. Reported figures are marked as such on the page and have not been found on a Department page. The results.exams.gov.lk site could not be reached from this server on 2026-11-05, so its steps are not described here. Nothing on this page updates itself; the review date is published above.