The information found here applies to England.

As a home educator, you may choose to do exams at some stage and if you do, it is more than likely that you will enter as a private candidate.

Steps to do this will include finding a suitable exam centre, choosing an exam board for each subject, paying the appropriate fees and filling out the correct forms, etc.

If you are one of our students, we will help you along the way with the whole process. Keep an eye out here also for our guidance articles to help and advise you about the whole process.

The consultation about how GCSEs, AS and A Level should be graded in place of summer exams, has now ended. You will soon be able to visit this page to see the results.