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Wrong centre number AQA A Levels

Hi!
I’m currently having a panic with my exams because of a silly mistake.

I am an external candidate (so homeschooled) and I just sat for both papers of my A Level Lit and Lang exams. On those papers, I entered my name (full including middle name), my candidate number (all times correctly) but for all of them put in the exam centre number of the exam centre that I was sitting my exams (when I had to use the one for my homeschooling school as it is connected to my NEAs).

I’ve sent an email both to the head of the school and to the exam centre telling them my mistake and wondering if there is a way to fix it.

I’m wondering if anyone else had a similar experience and can tell me if it is fixable. I do not want my papers to be lost and then completely fail when I worked so hard for these exams!

Thank you in advance.

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Original post by GoldenBlood
Hi!
I’m currently having a panic with my exams because of a silly mistake.
I am an external candidate (so homeschooled) and I just sat for both papers of my A Level Lit and Lang exams. On those papers, I entered my name (full including middle name), my candidate number (all times correctly) but for all of them put in the exam centre number of the exam centre that I was sitting my exams (when I had to use the one for my homeschooling school as it is connected to my NEAs).
I’ve sent an email both to the head of the school and to the exam centre telling them my mistake and wondering if there is a way to fix it.
I’m wondering if anyone else had a similar experience and can tell me if it is fixable. I do not want my papers to be lost and then completely fail when I worked so hard for these exams!
Thank you in advance.
Hi, not sure if you’ve received a response to your email for this yet, but I think it’ll be okay!! They have multiple different sections on the paper and I think the most important one is your name and candidate number. As long as you let them know, I don’t think it’ll be much of an issue!!

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Original post by Laura13101995
Hi, not sure if you’ve received a response to your email for this yet, but I think it’ll be okay!! They have multiple different sections on the paper and I think the most important one is your name and candidate number. As long as you let them know, I don’t think it’ll be much of an issue!!
Yeah! My head of English sent me an email after another exam today and she told me that everything is fine: AQA will only take a bit to connect my name to the paper but it will be done at the end. She also sent them an email to let them know. Really panicked me, but I’m really glad everything will work out at the end :biggrin:

Thank you for your reply too! It further reassures me and may be good for others who are in similar situations 👀

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