TMUA - January or october?

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DS would like to apply to LSE, warwick and imperial and they all ask for the TMUA.
we did not know about this so he is only starting to work on this jow.
there are two options: sitting the exam in October or in January.
i am aware he needs to apply for uni end of October
what are the pros and cons of sitting the exam in Jan rather than in October?

Yes, they need a separate room so booking can’t be done online and you have to go through this convoluted process of letting them know you’re ready to book then waiting for a call that doesn’t come, buying a voucher that takes days to process, and waiting for more contact. Getting rather worried about it all. Also Londoners and my student wouldn’t cope with driving to Colchester for an exam!!

What??? !! Colchester??
DS usually has a quiet room and 25% extra time. He is not interested in the quiet room so if we can only apply for extra time and not gobto colchester that’d be great…

So the fiddly arrangements seem to only be if you need anything other than time-based adjustments (ie separate room) so if they’d cope without, I wouldn’t bother as it’ll make your life a lot easier!! However I did read that the exam rooms can be quite noisy and busy with people coming and going for different exams - it’s not like a school exam, eg they may have people in doing driving theory or other stuff who are coming and going frequently. So think carefully whether your child would cope with all that extra disruption…

Bless her, she was vomiting from car sickness on the way to the exam. Dh actually booked the appt with her after I got the JCQ paperwork from school. Not sure what they had to do but we were def surprised that Colchester was the only option. But she has a Warwick offer (also had UCL) so it all ended up ok (well, I guess we actually find out on results day). Oh, a spider also ran towards her in the car on the way up…