Exam Advice
We will provide you with a course and tutor support, but it is up to you to arrange your exams if you want to take any.
If you are planning to take exams, you should contact your exam board as early as possible. We can’t arrange your exams for you, although we will help as far as possible if you get into difficulties.
All exam boards are helpful, but some exam boards have less influence on their exam centres than others, and you may find it difficult finding a suitable centre that’s close to you and running exams at the right time for you.
Hints for finding a centre
Often the best place to start is your Local Education Authority (LEA) or nearest British Council (if you are outside the UK), who should be able to help you.
You can also approach as many centres as possible and arrange to speak with the Examinations Officer or person in charge of admissions. If you do not find a centre straight away, try broadening your search to centres which you could at least travel to; this may increase your chances of success.
It may speed things up if you refer to yourself as an "external", "independent" or "private" candidate – different exam centres use different terms for exam candidates who have not studied with them.
