Examinations For Private (External) Candidates
GENERAL POINTS
GCSE / IGCSE
Please refer to the detailed subject list for GCSE and IGCSE shown in the section below covering the November 2010 session; as from the May / June 2010 session, we will be offering Edexcel IGCSE examinations ONLY for Private (External) Candidates - again, a detailed subject list including all the relevant subject codes is shown in the relevant section below; we will be offering 29 different subjects. We do not accept applications from Private (External) Candidates for Cambridge International (CIE) IGCSE examinations, or for OCR and WJEC GCSE examinations.
AS and A level
We accept applications from Private (External) Candidates for any AQA, Edexcel or OCR examination - any subject, any unit - provided no language oral, science practical or coursework component of any description is involved (but please see ***** below). We do not accept applications from Private (External) Candidates for WJEC (Welsh) examinations or Cambridge International (CIE) AS and A level examinations.
***** We do, however, accept applications from Private Candidates who have already submitted coursework for a previous session via their previous school or college, and would like the mark to be transferred ("carried forward" ) to a future entry. We will do all the necessary administration – you do not even have to forward your previous coursework to us. You MUST however provide us with a copy of your OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF RESULTS (i.e. NOT a document which has been "home produced" by your old school or college) from the past examination session in which you submitted the relevant piece(s) of coursework.
All Private Candidates who register for examinations at David Game College can expect:
• a fast, accurate, efficient service
• no unnecessary restrictions; for example, you do not need to be studying the same
periods of History or the same English Literature texts as our own internal
candidates in order for your application to be accepted
• timetable clashes to be resolved without fuss
• applications for Access Arrangements (where relevant) to be dealt with tactfully
and professionally (NB Please refer to our Terms and Conditions below)
• Statements of Entry to be annotated to cover timetable clashes, to show 100%
correct information (subject and personal details), and to be distributed to students
well ahead of the examinations they relate to
• to be provided with all necessary materials where it is our responsibility. Examples include:
- pre-release Special Study material for OCR A level Law (H534, units G154 G156 and G158)
- formula booklets for Edexcel AS/A Mathematics (8371 / 9371)
- data booklets for Edexcel A level Chemistry units 6CH04 and 6CH05.
• all issues relating to cash-in codes to be dealt with efficiently and without fuss.
==============================================================================-
Entry fees and deadlines (NB all fees are fully inclusive of administration)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NOVEMBER 2010 GCSE & IGCSE EXAMINATIONS
We will start processing applications for this session on MONDAY 9th AUGUST . The entry fees will be £ 130 per subject, up to 4.30 p.m. on FRIDAY 10th SEPTEMBER. After this date, we will accept applications for late entries at a fee of £ 170 per subject, subject to available space. We will not be accepting any applications made after 4.30 pm on FRIDAY 8th OCTOBER..
Applications will be accepted for Edexcel IGCSE examinations in Accounting (4305), Arabic (4308), Biology (4325), Business Studies (4330), Chemistry (4335), Economics (4350), English Language (4355), English as a Second Language (4357), English Literature (4360), French (4365), Geography (4370), German (4375), History (4380), Mathematics (4400), Physics (4420), Religious Studies (4425) and Spanish (4440).
For Edexcel GCSE we will only accept applications for Mathematics (1380), and for AQA GCSE only Mathematics (4306).
IMPORTANT - November 2010 provides the FINAL OPPORTUNITY to sit for all the examinations listed above. ALL these specifications will be WITHDRAWN after the November 2010 session; new specifications will be examined for the first time in the May / June 2011 session - full details are shown in the relevant section below.
We will NOT accept applications from Private Candidates for OCR GCSE, WJEC GCSE and Cambridge International (CIE) IGCSE examinations (any subject), for Edexcel GCSE with the SOLE exception of 1380 Mathematics, and for AQA GCSE with the SOLE exception of 4306 Mathematics.
IMPORTANT - we will NOT be accepting any applications from Private Candidates who require EXTRA TIME and/or use of a WORD PROCESSOR in their November 2010 examinations after FRIDAY 24th SEPTEMBER. It is regretted that we can not guarantee to accept every application from potential Private Candidates requiring Access Arrangements, regardless of the date of the application.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
JANUARY 2011 GCE AS & A LEVEL EXAMINATIONS
We will start processing applications for this session on MONDAY 9th AUGUST 2010 . The entry fees will be £ 70 per unit, up to 4.30 p.m. on FRIDAY 8th OCTOBER . After this date, we will accept applications for late entries at a fee of £ 140 per unit, subject to available space. We will not be accepting any applications made after 4.30 pm on FRIDAY 3rd DECEMBER.
We do NOT accept applications from Private Candidates for WJEC (Welsh) GCE examinations or Cambridge International (CIE) examinations..
All applicants MUST take extra care to quote the CORRECT ENTRY CODE plus OPTION CODE (where relevant) for EACH unit to be entered. Please be aware that we will NOT accept the application if you are unable to provide this information. The same applies to our request for previous Statements of Results.
IMPORTANT - we will NOT be accepting any applications from Private Candidates who require EXTRA TIME and/or use of a WORD PROCESSOR in their January 2011 examinations after FRIDAY 29th OCTOBER. It is regretted that we can not guarantee to accept every application from potential Private Candidates requiring Access Arrangements, regardless of the date of the application.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MAY / JUNE 2011 IGCSE EXAMINATIONS
We will start processing applications for this session on MONDAY 9th AUGUST . The entry fees will be £ 130 per subject, up to 4.30 p.m. on FRIDAY 11th FEBRUARY 2011 . After this date, we will accept applications for late entries at a fee of £ 170 per subject, subject to available space. We will not be accepting any applications made after 4.30 pm on FRIDAY 15th APRIL 2011.
Applications will be accepted for Edexcel IGCSE examinations ONLY, in the following subjects (the subject code is shown to the left of the subject name):
4AC0 Accounting
4AR0 Arabic (1st Language)
4BE0 Bengali
4BI0 Biology
4BS0 Business Studies
4CH0 Chemistry
4CN0 Chinese please see note (1) below
4CA0 Classical Arabic
4CM0 Commerce
4ECO Economics
4EA0 English Language (specification A) please see note (2) below
4EB0 English Language (specification B)
4ET0 English Literature
4ES0 English (as a 2nd Language) please see note (3) below
4FR0 French
4PM0 Further Pure Mathematics
4GE0 Geography
4GN0 German
4GU0 Gujarati
4HI0 History
4HB0 Human Biology
4MA0 Mathematics (specification A)
4MB0 Mathematics (specification B)
4MG0 Modern Greek
4PH0 Physics
4RS0 Religious Studies
4SP0 Spanish
4TU0 Turkish
4UR0 Urdu
Notes:
(1) We do NOT accept applications from Private Candidates for the optional endorsed assessment of spoken Chinese; strictly written and listening papers only.
(2) In English (specification A) we will be entering ALL candidates for Route 1, which is 100% written examination - Paper 1 (4EA0/01) + Paper 2 (4EA0/02); applications will NOT be accepted from Private Candidates wishing to follow Route 2, which involves coursework.We will provide each candidate who registers for IGCSE English Language (specification A) with a copy of the Anthology which is needed for the examinations.
(3) In English as a 2nd Language, we do NOT accept applications from Private Candidates for the optional endorsed assessment of spoken English - strictly written and listening papers only.
We will NOT accept applications from Private Candidates for any GCSE examinations or for Cambridge International (CIE) IGCSE examinations.
IMPORTANT - we will NOT be accepting any applications from Private Candidates who require EXTRA TIME and/or use of a WORD PROCESSOR in their May / June 2011 examinations after FRIDAY 25th MARCH. It is regretted that we can not guarantee to accept every application from potential Private Candidates requiring Access Arrangements, regardless of the date of the application
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MAY/JUNE 2011 GCE AS & A LEVEL EXAMINATIONS
We will start processing applications for this session on MONDAY 9th AUGUST 2010. The entry fees will be £ 70 per unit, up to 4.30 p.m. on FRIDAY 25th FEBRUARY 2011 . After this date, we will accept applications for late entries at a fee of £ 140 per unit, subject to available space. We will not be accepting any applications made after 4.30 pm on FRIDAY 15th APRIL 2011.
We do NOT accept applications from Private Candidates for WJEC (Welsh) GCE examinations or Cambridge International (CIE) examinations..
All applicants MUST take extra care to quote the CORRECT ENTRY CODE plus OPTION CODE (where relevant) for EACH unit to be entered. Please be aware that we will NOT accept the application if you are unable to provide this information. The same applies to our request for previous Statements of Results.
IMPORTANT - we will NOT be accepting any applications from Private Candidates who require EXTRA TIME and/or use of a WORD PROCESSOR in their May/June 2011 examinations after FRIDAY 25th MARCH. It is regretted that we can not guarantee to accept every application from potential Private Candidates requiring Access Arrangements, regardless of the date of the applicatio
=============================================================================-
HOW TO REGISTER FOR EXAMINATIONS AT DAVID GAME COLLEGE
[Please do NOT come in to register for examinations as a Private (External) Candidate on either of the the two examination results days: THURSDAY 19th AUGUST (AS/A level) or TUESDAY 24th AUGUST (GCSE and IGCSE), as these days are so hectic; many thanks in anticipation.]
You will need to come to the College at 69 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3JS to register; we do not accept e-mail or telephone applications from potential candidates living abroad. There is no need to book an appointment; simply turn up on any weekday afternoon (Monday-Friday) between 1.30 and 4.30 p.m., and go to the Examinations Officer Mr Kahn's office (Room D4 on the 2nd floor). For students aged up to and including 18 only, it is permissible for the student's parent or guardian to come in without the student as long as ALL the required documentation - including CORRECT entry codes - is brought in
[ Note: under no circumstances will we accept applications solely by telephone or e-mail - the student (or parent / guardian in the case of students aged up to and including 18) must come into our examination office at 69 Notting Hill Gate to register. Students living outside London are advised to look for centres closer to home, although if you are able to travel to London in person to register we will of course consider the application.]
You will need to bring with you:
• two passport-sized photographs of yourself
• proof of your identity (eg passport, driving licence).
Please bring a PHOTOCOPY of the key page in your passport, driving licence or any other official document confirming your identity (rather than the document itself) if at all possible.
• your most recent official Statement(s) of Results; if you have more than one
(e.g. one from AQA, one from Edexcel), it is important that you show us all
of them, even if they relate to subjects you will not be taking in your future
examinations. This is to enable us to check your Unique Candidate Identifier
(UCI), and to resolve any associated problems (for example, if your previous
school has made the mistake of allocating you a new UCI when you already
had one from elsewhere).
Note: if you have never taken a GCSE / IGCSE / AS examination before (and hence do not have a Statement of Results from a previous examination session, please do not worry - just mention this to Mr. Kahn when you come in to register and he will allocate you a UCI number, The same applies to mature students who last took a Public Examination ten or more years ago. It is VITAL, howevet, that if you already have a UCI number allocated by another school or college we are made aware of it.
==============================================================================-
DAVID GAME COLLEGE - TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR PRIVATE CANDIDATES
1 Accuracy of Entry Codes
It is vital that you provide clear unambiguous information with regard to the examinations you wish to be entered for. This means correct unit codes AND (where relevant) option details. This is especially important in subjects with many different options such as History and Religious Studies.. Please note - if information supplied by prospective candidates is missing or in any way misleading or ambiguous, the entry will not be accepted.
2 Payment
Payment may be made by cash, cheque (made payable to David Game College), debit card (no surcharge) or credit card (2% surcharge). Post-dated cheques will not be accepted. Postal orders will not be accepted.
Please note - refunds will NOT be issued in the event of cancellation, with the SOLE exception of cases where WRITTEN notice of withdrawal (either by post or via e-mail to mkahn@davidgame-group.com) is received BEFORE our published deadline for NORMAL entries. No refunds will be issued to candidates who are charged late entry fees on the day their entries are registered, under ANY circumstances.
Payment must be made in full at the time of registration. Deferred payments or instalments will not be accepted under any circumstances. If additional units / subjects are required after the initial registration of entries, these must be paid for in full (inclusive of late entry fees where relevant) before the initial entries are amended.
3 Access Arrangements
IMPORTANT - if access arrangements (extra time, supervised rest breaks, permission to word process an examination, permission to use a bilingual dictionary with extra time) are required, these must be requested at the time of registering the entry, and VALID supporting documentation (an educational psychologist's report dated less than 2 years before the relevant examination) must be supplied. Please note, under NO circumstances will we accept applications from potential Private Candidates who bring us out of date documentation, promising to rectify the situation at a later date. Likewise, any requests for access arrangements linked to a medical condition must be backed up by a valid, up to date doctor's certificate or hospital letter which describes the circumstances in as much detail as possible, and makes it clear how the examination performance will be affected by the medical condition and / or side effects caused by drugs prescribed by a medical practitioner. It is regretted that we are unable to accept applications from Private Candidates who require either a reader or a scribe.
We will NOT be able to guarantee acceptance of a request for access arrangements if the request is made after* the initial registration of the examination entries. We must meet examination Awarding Body and JCQ (Joint Council for Qualifications) deadlines for registering all access arrangements. It is NOT acceptable (for example) for a Private Candidate to pay for late entries in the middle of April, and then to telephone us two weeks later - after the payment has cleared - to tell us "By the way, I am entitled to extra time". We will NOT allow Private Candidates and / or their Parents / Guardians / Private Tutors to try to sneak through such a request "on the blind side" in this way under ANY circumstances. Candidates who attempt to do this will have to take their examinations without the proposed access arrangements; there will be no refund of entry fees in the event of subsequent cancellation.
* with the obvious exception of a candidate who incurs a medical problem after the entries have been made, for example as a result of being involved in a road traffic accident.
Please note - for each examination session, there is a deadline after which we will not accept any more applications from Private Candidates requiring extra time. These deadlines are clearly shown in the notes relating to each individual session, which you will find higher up this page. Further, it is regretted that we cannot guarantee that we will accept every application from potential Private Candidates requiring Access Arrangements who apply before our published deadlines. Our decision whether or not to accept a particular application is FINAL and is NOT NEGOTIABLE.
4 Timetable Clashes
Clashes between examinations taking place solely at David Game College will be resolved by the Examinations Officer (Mr Kahn), and the solution will be indicated clearly on the Statement of Entry before it is posted to you. If a candidate is taking examinations at another centre AS WELL AS at David Game College, it is the candidate's responsibility to inform us AT THE TIME OF ENTRY about these other examinations, in order that potential clashes may be dealt with efficiently.
5 Coursework / language oral tests / science practicals
We will NOT accept applications from Private Candidates for coursework components, language oral tests or science practicals. Candidates who wish to carry forward marks from previous examination sessions, and who are able to supply valid documentation at the time of entry will however be accepted; please refer to the paragraph on this point towards the top of this page.
6 What is covered by your examination entry fees?
When you register for examinations as a Private Candidate at David Game College, you will be entered for the correct examinations under the name on the ID we ask you for; we undertake to provide you with your Examination Statement of Entry ("timetable") in good time for the relevant examination(s), to solve any timetable clashes, to send you any relevant pre-release material at the earliest possible opportunity, to organise all your examinations efficiently, to ensure that your scripts are despatched by secure delivery methods to the correct address, and to provide you with your results information on the relevant day(s). Please note - it is NOT our responsibility to provide you with specifications ("syllabuses"), past papers, mark schemes etc. On request we will direct you to the websites and telephone numbers which will enable you to obtain this material.
Prospective private candidates will be asked to sign a declaration that they have READ and UNDERSTOOD these Terms and Conditions BEFORE payment is accepted and entries are registered.
M. L. Kahn
Academic Vice Principal & Examinations Officer
(020) 7221 6665 ext. 223 between 1.30 and 4.30 p.m, Monday to Friday
e-mail mkahn@davidgame-group.com