CAIE Date Sheet Oct/Nov 2026: Cambridge O Level & IGCSE Schedule (Zone 4)

If you are in Pakistan or Bangladesh and you have been searching “CAIE date sheet oct nov 2026” for a week, the reason you keep landing on the wrong PDF is that Cambridge does not publish a date sheet. It publishes six timetables, one per administrative zone, and only one of them is yours.

Yours is Zone 4. The British Council in Pakistan issues the Zone 4 document to its candidates every series, and Zone 4 is why your papers carry variant 2 codes — 0580/22, 5054/22, 1123/22 — rather than the variant 1 papers you will find all over the internet.

Below is the Zone 4 date sheet for October/November 2026, read straight off the Cambridge timetable, covering O Level and IGCSE subjects. Dates, sessions and paper durations, including the Pakistan-specific subjects the global guides leave out.

What is the CAIE date sheet, and why does yours differ?

“Date sheet” is the South Asian term for what Cambridge calls the final exam timetable. There is no single global version. Cambridge allocates every exam centre to one of six administrative zones and publishes a separate timetable for each, so that no candidate can sit a paper after another candidate has already walked out of the room with it.

Pakistan and Bangladesh centres sit in Zone 4. This has two consequences that matter to you. Your sessions are set by the Zone 4 timetable, and your question papers are variant 2 in almost every subject — we counted 281 of 336 components in the November 2026 Zone 4 timetable carrying the variant 2 digit. A student revising from 0580/21 is revising a paper that was written for a different zone. Our guide to Cambridge administrative zones explains the mechanism and the variant trap in full.

CAIE O Level date sheet — Oct/Nov 2026 (Zone 4)

The subjects most O Level candidates in Pakistan are entered for, in date order within each syllabus.

CAIE IGCSE date sheet — Oct/Nov 2026 (Zone 4)

Core-tier candidates take the /12 and /32 variants where both appear; Extended-tier candidates take /22 and /42. If you are unsure which tier you were entered for, your statement of entry says so, and the tier caps the grades available to you.

When are the Oct/Nov 2026 results?

Cambridge releases results for this series in January 2027: 7 January 2027 for AS and A Level, 14 January 2027 for IGCSE and O Level. Candidates access them through myresults.cie.org.uk using credentials issued by their centre, not by Cambridge. Private candidates entered through the British Council collect from the British Council on its own published schedule.

Our guide to checking results online walks through both portals, what you need before the day, and why the portal is never the source of your grades.

Five things to do with the date sheet this week

1. Confirm the version with your centre. Cambridge revises published timetables, and your centre downloads the current one.
2. Write out only your own papers, in date order, with the session. A 27-row table is not a revision plan; your six papers are.
3. Note the variant digit for each subject. Zone 4 is variant 2 for almost everything, but check rather than assume.
4. Find your tight weeks. Look for days carrying two papers, and the gaps shorter than 48 hours. Those decide where your last fortnight goes.
5. Start on the most recent variant 2 papers first and work backwards. Recency beats volume when time is short.

A date sheet is only worth the plan you build on it. Pull out your own six or eight papers, mark the two weeks where they cluster, and spend what is left on the variant 2 papers you will actually sit.