Sri Lanka Examination Fees Calculator (O/L & A/L)

Every fee on this page is anchored to a Department of Examinations (DoE) source. The tool does not invent rates — it looks up the published amount for the service you pick, scales it by your subjects or copies, then adds the appropriate overseas surcharges if you ask for them. The reason this needed a dedicated calculator is that the DoE schedule is fragmented across half a dozen circulars and a downloadable PDF, so even a careful applicant ends up emailing the contact-centre or guessing from a forum post.

Re-correction (re-scrutiny) — per subject

The annual re-scrutiny circular sets the per-subject fee. For the most recent cycles that worked out to Rs 250 per subject at A/L (2025 sitting, April 2026 window) and Rs 200 per subject at O/L (2024 sitting, July 2025 window). The total is simply the per-subject fee multiplied by the number of subjects you want re-marked. There is no bulk discount, no late-application option, and no refund if the re-marked grade is unchanged or lower.

Certified copies — base + additional-copy rate

The Certificates Branch tariff publishes two parallel tracks. Normal service charges Rs 350 for the first copy of one sitting plus Rs 200 per additional copy of the same sitting, capped at three copies per application. One-day service rates are higher — Rs 600 base + Rs 300 per additional copy — because you collect across the counter the same working day instead of waiting for Speed Post. If you need certified copies of more than one sitting (say both O/L and A/L) you submit separate applications, each with its own base fee.

Duplicate result sheets and index-number search

A duplicate G.C.E. results sheet costs Rs 200per copy from the DoE — but only for private candidates. If you sat your exam through a school, the school principal issues the duplicate from the school's records and the DoE will route you back. The index-number search (CT 4 form) is a separate Rs 150 flat fee that you pay when you can no longer recall the index number from your examination — it has to be resolved before any other service can be delivered, and the DoE takes up to four working days to confirm it, with no guarantee of success if the supporting details are too thin.

Overseas applicants — what the surcharges cover

When a certificate or duplicate sheet is going overseas, two additional charges apply on top of the DoE fee. The first is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Consular Division authentication stamp at Rs 250 per certificate, which a foreign university or visa office almost always requires before it will accept a Sri Lankan academic certificate. The second is registered air-mail at Rs 300 per consignment, paid to dispatch the package by post to a foreign address. Note that re-correction does not attract either surcharge — the revised result is published on the DoE portal and there is no physical document to authenticate or ship.

Cross-checks, edge cases, and what is out of scope

Internally the page computes each total twice — once by walking the line items and once by a flat tariff-table reformulation — and surfaces a “Matches DoE table” badge only when both methods agree to the rupee. The maximum-three-copies cap is enforced as a hard validation error rather than silently truncated, because the DoE rejects applications that exceed it without a special justification. The calculator does not yet cover Grade 5 Scholarship re-marking, GIT, NDT, or English Language Examination service fees because the DoE publishes those rates separately per exam cycle and they have not been verified against a primary source as of the LAST_VERIFIED date on this page; if you need one of those, email me and I will add it the same week.

Three end-to-end scenarios that map to the most common DoE queries. Each total below should match the calculator above to the rupee when you punch in the same inputs.

• DoE — Services provided by the Certificates Branch (Instructions PDF)
• DoE — Issuing Certificates Online: Instructions for Applicants
• Department of Examinations of Sri Lanka — official site
• DoE — Online Certificate Application Portal
• G.C.E. A/L 2025 Re-Correction circular — per-subject fee Rs 250 (mirrored)
• G.C.E. O/L 2024 Re-scrutiny circular — per-subject fee Rs 200 (mirrored)

Fees on this page were last cross-checked against the DoE primary sources on 2026-05-17. If a current DoE bulletin disagrees with a number here, please email — corrections ship within 24 hours.