Overnight supervision arrangements should only be applied as a last resort and once all other options have been exhausted.
When candidates are entered for multiple examinations (three or more examinations) timetabled for the same day and the total duration for those papers is:
a) more than six hours for GCE examinations (AS, A2, A-level), including approved extra time allowances and/or supervised rest breaks†; or
b) more than five and a half hours for GCSE examinations, including approved extra time allowances and/or supervised rest breaks†; |
Candidates may, at the centre’s discretion, be allowed to take an examination the following morning, including Saturdays (see section 8.1, page 23 of the Instructions for Conducting Examinations document). However, candidates are not allowed to take examinations on an earlier day than that scheduled on the timetable.
†Where reference is made to supervised rest breaks; this is a supervised rest break as defined in section 5.1, page 30 of the JCQ publication Access Arrangements and Reasonable Adjustments.
For more information, please refer to the latest Instructions for Conducting Examinations document. |  |
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Timetable Variations And Clashes
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