Exams Without a School
A workbook for planning it yourself, from the primary sources.
The two things that catch families out are what it costs per subject and how far away the nearest centre that will take an external candidate turns out to be. Both change, and both are answerable — but only by asking, and only by asking the right people early enough.
What is inside
- A timeline worked backwards from an exam series, with your own dates written in
- A page per candidate centre: what to ask, what they answered, what it costs, how far it is — prompts, not answers
- The subject-by-subject cost decision laid out so the total is visible before it is committed to
- What “external candidate” means, and the questions it raises for a centre
- Where the current facts actually live, named — the awarding bodies, and the centres themselves
Fillable and printable PDF · A4 and US Letter · undated · instant download
Who it is for
Families two or three years out from an exam series who want to know what the decision actually involves before it becomes urgent — and families who have been told a number by somebody confident and would rather check it themselves.
What it is not
Not a list of fees, not a list of deadlines, and not a list of centres that will take your child. Every one of those changes, and a printable that states them is out of date within a term — which is worse than useless, because somebody plans around it. It tells you what to ask and where the real answer lives.
The routes and the terms differ across the UK, so nothing in it treats one nation's system as the whole picture.
Get it
Bought on Etsy, downloaded straight away. Nothing arrives in the post.
Published through Termly, the home-education platform I am building with my husband Ed. Same person behind it either way — Termly is just where it lives.