This site is designed to promote Cambridge International exam centre options for private and external candidates.

CAIE or CIE for short stands  Cambridge  International  Assessment education .

Why:
There is a rise of non school exam takers. While there is a reduction in schools and colleges that accept independent learners.

Aim: 

We hope to provide advice and guidance to independent learners of CIE courses along with giving them an option for exam siting.

While the Cambridge International Web site lists a range of schools and colleges that might accept private candidates. There are many of the schools that simply do not. 

We aim to list centres  along with our own plus advice and guidance of what you need to do if you consider yourself a private candidate.

Private candidates for CIE. 

Private candidates often have a hard time accessing GCSEs and A levels. While Exam Boards encourage centres to take them. Often the challenges are too great to allow exam centres to provide private exam candidates the service they need. 

Cambridge International (CIE) provides an updated page with a list of exam centres that take private candidates. 

The responsibility is on the candidate to find a suitable exam centre that will accept them and register  with them. Not all exam codes are available to private candidates. Especially where there a great deal of non exam assessment. 

What is an exam centre: 

registration quality standards and criteria to successfully register with us to offer our programmes and qualifications and make entries for cambridge international exams. 

This includes Cambridge schools and Cambridge Associates. Which do not have the word 'centre' in. 

Responsibilities of private candidates with CIE: 

• Find a centre or approved Cambridge exam provider in your country that accepts private candidates.

• Register to take Cambridge exams.

• Make any payments to the centre or exam provider.

• Contact the centre or exam provider with any exam-related enquiries such as access arrangements.

• Check your statement of entry is correct.

• Take ID to confirm your identity to each exam.

• Tell the centre or exam provider about any special consideration requests after the exams.

• Collect your results from the centre or exam provider.

• Make any requests for reviews of marking or appeals to the centre or exam provider.

• Collect your certificates from the centre or exam provider.

Responsibilities of centres and approved Cambridge exam providers

• Check requested syllabuses to make sure they are available to private candidates.

• Make exam entries for private candidates.

• Pay fees to Cambridge.

• Issue statements of entry and exam timetables.

• Make any access arrangements requests.

• Check the identity of private candidates before each exam.

• Make any special consideration requests.

• Issue results information.

• Make any enquiries about results and appeals requested by private candidates.

• Issue certificates.

While we are one. We encourages other centres to provide private candidates  access. 

The information on this page is for centres who may be considering accepting private candidates, and for students who are considering entering our exams as a private candidate.

CIE exams and assessments are mainly designed for candidates studying at schools and colleges registered with us as centres. However, some candidates who do not attend our centres or who are studying at a Cambridge International school registered as online may want to enter for exams. They are known as private candidates.