Starting in June 2026, the first digital format of AICE exams will launch in schools that are part of the Early Adopter Programme (EAP) across Europe, Middle East and North Africa, and the United States. The first phase of digital AICE exams will include Cambridge International AS English General Paper as well as Cambridge IGCSE Accounting, Economics, Biology, Chemistry and Physics.

The new digital format of AICE Exams will allow students to not only edit their work but also increase the amount of time students will be able to work. Digitally, AICE writing exams will improve accessibility, efficiency, and allow for greater accommodations. This will also allow students to plan out how they will structure their response before writing it, allowing for less grammar and sentence errors.

For certain AICE exams, such as AS & A Level Media Studies, the syllabus for components 2 and 4 requires it to be taken exclusively in the digital format. This requirement involves students to type their responses online as well as viewing excerpts and media texts. This trend is scheduled to follow in July 2026 in Cambridge IGCSE Spanish, where students will listen to a digital audio that is included with on-screen questions. However, the other three components of the syllabus will remain with the paper format.

The recently introduced digital format for the upcoming AICE exams improves the accessibility and efficiency offered to students taking the exams. While the format is only introduced in an enclosed sample of exams, it is certain to pass onto future exams. This can be seen as Cambridge aims for 85% of their exams to be offered digitally by 2033.

Following the sample of exams to be taken digitally in July 2026, various other exams are scheduled to be launched digitally by subject. Exams such as Global Perspectives and English Language are scheduled to launch in 2028, while exams such as IGCSE Psychology and English Literature are planned to launch in 2030.