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  • Supporting Private Candidates

    As part of the Pearson qualifications website, we provide an interactive map with details of centres across the country that offer our qualifications. Students use the interactive map to help them find a centre that will accept them as a private candidate .

    A private candidate can be:

    • a part-time student
    • someone studying evening courses, a correspondence course or distance learning course
    • someone who is being home-schooled or is self-taught

    They usually aren't enrolled full-time with a school, college or training provider and only require a centre where they can sit the examination.

    The following questions will help us keep the information on our website up to date and ensure that you’re happy for us to make your centre information available to private candidates.

    You should only complete the following survey if you work within a UK centre and are authorised to do so by your head of centre. You will need to have an Edexcel Online account in order to continue.

  • 4. How can private candidates get more information or make enquiries?

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  • Based on feedback from centres we understand that most schools and colleges are unable to offer units that require internal assessment (including coursework, controlled assessments, orals or lab work) to private candidates. The following questions clarifies your centre's position on these components.

  • This page looks at which qualifications private candidates will be able to take at your centre.

  • Please note: Pearson International Advanced Level qualifications are not available to centres in the UK, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man. Additionally, British Armed Forces schools based overseas are also unable to make entries for these qualifications.

  • Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey.

    The Learner Services Support team are continually looking at ways to ensure our students are informed and empowered. We are helping them to achieve this by ensuring we provide as much information as needed on our website, as well as offering certain tools and resources to make their studies a little easier.

    Hopefully, the results of this survey will contribute in helping us achieve that goal for private candidates.

    Best wishes,
    Mike.

    Mike Weaver
    Learner Support and Customer Contact Manager

    Pearson
    Always Learning

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