03. Examinations/Assessment

Information on Examination Rechecks can be found on our website.

Past exam papers are only available to current students in their Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) through their Student Portal. You cannot see past exam papers before applying.

Your Admission Notice will contain information on items that you are permitted to use during the examinations.  You are only permitted to use a pen and a pencil unless your Admission Notice advises otherwise.

Within the limits set by the Programme Regulations and the minimum and maximum registration periods, you may decide when to be examined, the number of courses to attempt in each session and the order in which courses are attempted. 

You can find out how a programme is assessed by looking at the 'How you study' section of the course outline.

Your Programme Regulations contain information on how many examinations you can sit in a session. 

Your Programme Regulations contain information on the number of attempts allowed for each element of assessment. 

There are no examination entry fees for our postgraduate programmes.  However, you may be required to pay a re-sit fee if your fail an examination. The examination entry fees for our undergraduate programmes can be found in the fees schedule on our website. You should also budget for the fee charged by your local Examination Centre. We are only responsible for Examination Centre fees charged for sitting in London.

In most cases you will pay your local Examination Centre fees directly to your local Examination Centre. You should contact your local centre to find out about possible methods of payment. You can view the list of local Examination Centres on our website.     

You can access your Assessment Entry Form by following these instructions: In your Student Portal go to the ‘My Account’ tab on the portal home page.  Select the 'Assessment' tab and click 'Assessment Entry'.   You can log an enquiry through your Student Portal if you try this and are still having problems. 

You can withdraw from any examination. You would need to write to us using the 'ask a question' link on your Student Portalhomepage in order to do this.   Your exam entry fee is not refundable or transferrable unless you withdraw within 14 days of making your entry.  Let your Examination Centre know if you withdraw from an examination. You should check your Programme Regulations to make sure there are no academic penalties for withdrawing.

You must request this information by logging an enquiry through your Student Portal.  We'll get back to you as soon as we can.

Yes. You would need to contact the original centre to cancel your entry.  You would then need to forward written confirmation from your new centre so that we can change your entry.  We will always try our best to do this if there is time to get your exam materials to the new centre.

You can change your address or contact details using the Student Portal.  You will need to contact us using the 'ask a question link' on the Student Portal homepage if you need to change the name or the date of birth you have been registered under and to upload a copy of your passport in your enquiry. 

You must contact us with details of any mitigating circumstances you wish to be considered within three weeks of the last examination in the session concerned or before the submission deadline of any assessed coursework, project or dissertation.  We will not normally consider mitigating circumstances if you do not contact us within these periods.  It is important for you to provide any formal certification you may have in relation to your circumstances.

The following forms of ID are acceptable:  passport; driving licence; national identity card.

You will receive an email when the online Assessment Entry task has been opened for your programme. The email will let you know what the deadline for entry is. We also post Assessment Entry deadlines on our website. 

Your Programme Regulations will let you know when you are able to re-sit any assessments that you might have failed. 

There are hundreds of Exam Centres worldwide. You can find details of these centres on our website. 

West of Mumbai (India) is Zone A, east of Mumbai is Zone B. Mumbai is in Zone B.  We might set slightly different versions of an exam paper for Zones A and B. It makes no difference which version you sit as the papers are set and marked by the same examiners to the same standard.  It doesn't matter if you are in one zone but sit the other zone's paper.

West of Mumbai (India) is Zone A, east of Mumbai is Zone B. Mumbai is in Zone B.  We might set slightly different versions of an exam paper for Zones A and B. It makes no difference which version you sit as the papers are set and marked by the same examiners to the same standard. It doesn't matter if you are in one zone but sit the other zone's paper.