The exams regulator, Ofqual, has fined Cambridge English £875,000 against after the test maker issued erroneous results to tens of thousands of people undertaking English language proficiency tests.
The widespread inaccuracies, stemming from computer-automated marking errors within the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) qualification, affected 62,794 test takers, predominantly international students, between August 2023 and September 2025. This period saw over 7.7 million global tests administered.