Retaking a GCSE - Help and Advice please

Thank you so much for your help. Really appreciate it. The only thing i'm worried about is the "Private Candidate Info" form as i'm not sure who I can get to sign it on my behalf. I guess I could ask my old University Tutor but I'm unsure they're willing to provide their home address on the form. Ah, this is so complicated

This form must be completed on behalf of candidates who are not known personally to the staff of the
accommodating centre and who do not possess a current, valid passport or driving licence with
photograph.

You must make your entry in person at the centre and be identified by the Head of the centre by one of the
following procedures. Where appropriate, you must agree to the arrangements for identifying those
candidates wearing religious clothing, such as a veil, as described in the JCQ Instructions for conducting
examinations (available from www.jcq.org.uk).

Either

(a) If you are known personally to the staff of the accommodating centre, no further action needs
to be taken to prove identification at this stage, provided that you can be identified by the
Invigilator at the beginning of each exam, including any speaking and practical exams.
or

(b) If you are not known personally to the staff of the accommodating centre, but have a current
and valid passport or driving licence incorporating a photograph, you should show this to the
Head of the centre at the time of making your entry. No further action needs to be taken to
prove identification when your entry is made but you must produce your passport or driving
licence for inspection by the Invigilator at the beginning of each exam session, including any
speaking and practical exams.

or

(c) If you are not known personally to the staff of the accommodating centre and do not have a
current, valid passport or driving licence incorporating a photograph, then the following
procedure must be adopted:

(i) you must obtain two passport-sized photographs taken at the same time in the last 12
months.

(ii) you must take one of the photographs to someone who knows you and who is in one
of the following categories:


This person must witness the photograph by signing the reverse side and must also
complete and sign the Private Candidate Identification Form, which is included in the
appendices at the back of this booklet.

(iii) you must take the completed Private Candidate Identification Form, the witnessed
photograph and the second photograph to the accommodating centre. The Head of
the centre will keep the Private Candidate Identification Form and the photographs so
that the Invigilator can confirm your identity at the start of each exam session,
including any speaking and practical exams.

Thank you, I've read a few of the AQA booklets and am going to phone up a few colleges on Monday to see if they will accept me (I know i've gone way past the deadline though, and apparently the don't like 'mature' students coming into schools as private candidates). I believe the next opportunity is November though?

I'll be so relieved once I get the C that I desperatly need and can start applying for more Graduate jobs. I never thought after I finished Uni last year that I would have to go back to college to re-take a GCSE.