Tamim wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Are children allowed to sit the exam early (i.e. a year ahead of time)? Assuming they are, will they be able to re-sit the following year (i.e. if their mark wasn't sufficiently high for desired schools etc)? Finally, might there be variation in such rules from one local authority to another, or is this something that would be uniform across the UK?
Thanks in advance,
Tamim.
As a general rule, where under-age candidates are allowed to sit the exam, it is usually on the condition that they are registered in the school year above their chronological age (i.e. they are on the school roll as being in year 6, even though they were not yet 10 at the beginning of that year). And no, having sat the exam early, they won't normally get another chance to sit the exam with their own year group.
(Cross-posted with Tinkers

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