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 May / June 2010 session. This gives a full listing of the examinations for which we will accept applications from Private (External) Candidates, including the subject code. Private Candidates are not accepted for GCSE Languages requiring oral tests or any subjects containing coursework or practical components. We do not accept applications from Private (External) Candidates for Cambridge International (CIE) IGCSE 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)
• all issues relating to cash-in codes to be dealt with efficiently and without fuss.
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Entry fees and deadlines (NB all fees are fully inclusive of administration)
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MAY / JUNE 2010 GCSE & IGCSE EXAMINATIONS
Our closing date for normal entries has now passed. We are still accepting late applications at a fee of £ 150 per subject (inclusive of late entry fees), subject to available space. We will not accept any applications made after 4.30 pm on FRIDAY 16th APRIL.
Applications will be accepted for Edexcel IGCSE examinations in Accounting (4305), 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 Chinese (1667), and for AQA GCSE only Business Studies ( Specification B - 3133), Economics (3144) and Mathematics (4306).
We will NOT accept applications from Private Candidates for OCR GCSE, WJEC GCSE and 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 2010 examinations after WEDNESDAY 31st 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.
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MAY / JUNE 2010 GCE AS & A LEVEL EXAMINATIONS
Our closing date for normal entries has now passed. We are still accepting late entries at £ 130 per unit (£ 200 per unit for Edexcel Arabic, Greek and Japanese, and OCR Persian) subject to available space. We will not be accepting any applications made after 4.30 pm on FRIDAY 16th APRIL.
We do NOT accept applications from Private Candidates for WJEC (Welsh) GCE examinations or Cambridge International (CIE) examinations.
If you took examinations as a Private Candidate at David Game College in January 2010, you should have been given an information sheet explaining the arrangements for the issue of results in March, plus associated entry deadlines for May/June 2010. If for any reason you did not receive this information sheet, please send an e-mail to mkahn@davidgame-group.com and it will be sent to you as an attachment.
All applicants MUST take extra care to quote the CORRECT ENTRY CODE plus OPTION (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 2010 examinations after WEDNESDAY 31st 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.
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HOW TO REGISTER FOR EXAMINATIONS AT DAVID GAME COLLEGE
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)
• 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).
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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.
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