Here, you can register candidates for upcoming Common Entrance examination sessions. The next examination session is the Spring 2025 CE 13+ session, with live examinations running from 28 to 31 January 2025. See the Spring 2025 examination timetable.
Late Registration for the Spring 2025 CE 13+ session is still open. Any registrations made after 6 December 2025 will result in a late fee of £50. Jump to the online form.
The Spring 2025 CE 13+ Candidate Registration Upload Template spreadsheet is available to download. You will need to submit this with details of your candidates via the online registration form once it opens to finalise the registration.
Download the Spring 2025 CE 13+ Candidate Registration Upload Template
Late registration will close on 23 December 2024.
Please note that all completely new registrations submitted after 6 December 2024 will incur a £50 late fee.
You can make changes to registrations submitted by re-uploading your CE 13+ Spring 2025 Candidate Registration Upload Template spreadsheet up until 20 December 2024. Please note: Changes made after 20 December will need to be made via the CE Support Portal.
To make changes, please submit your full upload template spreadsheet with any changes applied to the relevant candidates. The new version of spreadsheet will replace the old one, and if you leave any candidates or information out of the spreadsheet, those details will be removed from your registration. Change fees will not be charged until after 20 December 2024.
Candidates can be cancelled up until 20 December 2024. After this date, we cannot cancel any further candidates as the exam papers will have been printed and packed for despatch.
Recommended support article: How do schools complete the Candidate Registration Upload Template spreadsheets?
Watch the video below for guidance on completing the candidate registration template. Note: the video shows the Spring 2024 spreadsheet but the format of the spreadsheet and the overall process is the same for Spring 2025.
JUMP TO ONLINE CE REGISTRATION FORM.
The registration process is very similar to the previous process.
You can download our step-by-step guide to candidate registration here.
To register candidates for CE, schools need an active, verified ISEB School Account that allows users registered on the account to log in to the new ISEB website.
If you are unsure whether your school has an active ISEB School Account, you can submit a ticket on our Support Portal. Please choose the option: ‘Request to check if my school has an ISEB School Account’.
The way candidate information is submitted has changed. You are no longer required to enter candidates into a form one by one. Instead, you will add all of your candidates to a Candidate Registration Upload Template spreadsheet provided by us, and upload once, whenever you are ready.
Once you have completed the upload template, you can simply submit it as a .CSV file through the relevant online registration form to register your candidates.
A record of your registration will appear in your ISEB School Account dashboard.
Please note: candidates will be allocated a unique Candidate ID. This ID needs to be quoted when making any changes to a candidate’s registration.
The new registration system enables schools to only have one account, the ISEB School Account, to order past CE and CASE papers from the online shop and to register candidates for CE, CASE, and the iPQ. In time, we’ll be adding lots more functionality and resources to the Schools Hub too.
You need the same information that you needed to register candidates previously. This includes information about your school and yourself, and information about the candidates you are registering.
About you and your school:
About each candidate:
Note: the way candidate information is submitted has changed. You are no longer be required to enter candidates into a form one by one. Instead, you will add all of your candidates to a Candidate Registration Upload Template spreadsheet provided by us, and upload once, whenever you are ready.
You will also no longer be required to use the letter codes for CE subjects.
To register candidates for CE, schools will need to first populate a Candidate Registration Upload Template spreadsheet. The template for each spreadsheet will be provided by ISEB in .Excel format.
Instead of entering candidates in to an online form one by one, schools can now simply populate the relevant upload spreadsheet with the information for each candidate. This can be done in your own time, allowing you to build it up over time and review the information within it. You can submit your spreadsheet whenever you are ready, as long as it is before the relevant deadline.
Please note that the spreadsheet must be saved as a .CSV file for uploading through the online registration forms.
Each candidate is entered into the Candidate Registration Upload Template spreadsheets on a separate line.
Read our support article on how to populate the new Candidate Registration Upload Template spreadsheets, and prepare them for upload via the new online registration forms.
Please enter the candidate’s first name and last name, as well as their preferred full name for their ISEB CE certificate. Please enter this in sentence case i.e. James Smith, and please check spelling and punctuation carefully as the names on the certificates will appear as entered into the spreadsheet.
Please select the candidate’s Destination School and Marking School from the options in the drop-down lists. These are usually the same. The Marking School is the senior school to which the marking packs will be sent.
We advise that you do not upload your Candidate Registration Upload Template spreadsheet until you have full information for all candidates. If you would like to upload your completed template and still have some candidates without confirmed destination or marking schools, please select ‘Internal Marking’. You will be able to change this later if necessary.
Finally, please select the subjects each candidate will take using the drop-down options provided. You no longer need to use the old subject codes.
Support and guidance is available on our new CE Support Portal. Here you will find a range of helpful articles and FAQs, and you can also submit an enquiry via the online ticket submission form.
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The new candidate registration system has been designed so that schools can use the same account for registering candidates for CE exams and ordering past CE papers.
It means that all CE administration is done in one place, and records of registrations and orders can be seen in the same account dashboard.
ISEB School Accounts put schools in control – they have been designed to allow schools to add and edit users directly. Each account has one or more Admins, who can add users and set user roles and permissions. Each user on the account has their own login, using their own email address and password for added security.
Find out more about ISEB School Accounts and how they work
Once a school has submitted a candidate registration, a copy of the .CSV file submitted, as well as a PDF summary of the information submitted, will become available in the school’s ISEB School Account dashboard. These can be downloaded from the dashboard.
Visit our new Support Portal to access a range of helpful articles and FAQs about CE exams. You can also submit an enquiry to our customer service team by submitting a support ticket. We aim to respond to all enquiries within 24 hours. Please add common-entrance@iseb.co.uk to your address book to ensure you receive our replies to your tickets.
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