From the Accreditation Board
The accreditation exam on Monday 12 August is rocketing towards us!
We’ve included below some last-minute reminders for you if you’re sitting the exam. We’ve also briefly explained what happens after you sit the exam, including when you can expect to hear if you’ve passed.
Last-minute reminders
In the final weeks and days leading up to the exam, here are some things for you to finalise:
- Choose which hard-copy resources you will be taking into the exam (see page 15 of the Guide for candidates).
- You can bring as many or as few hard-copy resources as you wish.
- Before the exam, you can annotate your reference books and use post-it notes to mark sections. (If you annotate a reference during the exam, the invigilators will check what you write and you may need to leave the page or the whole reference behind.)
- You cannot borrow any hard-copy resources from other candidates during the exam.
- Finish preparing your own notes, and arrange to have these bound (see pages 15–16 of the Guide for candidates).
- You can bring your own notes into the exam, but all materials must be printed and bound.
- Your bound notes can include printed material, typed notes, photocopied handwritten notes and photocopies of reference book pages. Loose sheets of paper and handwritten notes are not permitted.
- You cannot include extracts from the sample exams.
- Permitted bindings: comb binding, wire binding, thermal binding, staples along the left-hand side.
- Bindings that allow pages to be slipped in and out (e.g. a ring binder) are not allowed.
What happens after the exam?
Congratulations – you’ve just finished the IPEd accreditation exam!
Even while you’re slumping back in your seat, relieved it’s all over, the exam team is hard at work, collating your files, checking everything is in order, and sending everything off to the marking team.
Here’s a brief timeline of what happens after the exam:
| Time frame | Notes |
| Monday 12 August | Celebrate! If you can, plan some down time after the exam, to relax and recuperate. Many venue candidates get together to have a drink or meal after the exam. You can do this in person or online, with other candidates or with friends and family. |
| Tuesday 13 August |
Exam feedback – You will receive an email asking for your anonymous feedback on your exam experience, to help the Accreditation Board review what happened in 2024 and consider improvements for the next exam. You will have a couple of weeks to complete the survey, but we suggest doing it while the experience is fresh for you. Special consideration – If something happens on exam day that affects your performance during the exam (e.g. sudden illness, death in the family, environmental factors), you have 7 days to lodge a request for special consideration in the marking. Information on how to do this will be included in the email asking for your exam feedback. |
| Tuesday 13 – Monday 19 August | Refunds for no-shows – If for some reason you weren’t able to make it to the exam, email the exam coordinator – admin (EC-A) (exam.administration@iped-editors.org) as soon as possible. You will receive a partial refund if your reason for missing the exam was unavoidable. You must email your refund request and proof of the reason (e.g. medical certificate) to the EC-A by Monday 19 August. |
| November | Results – The marking team is busy from late August when they receive all the exam files, to late October when results are finalised. When results are final, the exam team prepares certificates for successful candidates and detailed reports of performance for unsuccessful candidates. You can expect to receive your pass/fail result in early November. |
| Within 21 days of the above | Appeals – If you receive a fail result, you can lodge an appeal in writing within 21 days of receiving your result and exam report. (Note that appeals must be accompanied by a fee of two-thirds the standard exam fee to cover the cost of the appeal.) Details on how to lodge an appeal will be included with your result notification. |
| Within 21 days of the above | Appeal outcome – You will be notified of the outcome within 21 days of your appeal being received. |
Final well wishes
After you have everything prepared for exam day, take some time (even a few minutes) to stop and relax – a clear head always helps!
From everyone on the Accreditation Board and in the exam team, we wish you the best of luck on exam day. May no question be too difficult and no editing term escape your mind when you most need it.
See you on the other side!