IGCSEs? How on earth do you go about doing them?

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When the local school doesn’t offer them. I stupidly thought they'd be more accessible, but I don’t even know where to start.

Where are you based?

You need to find a centre that offers them. The teo main boards are Pearson Edexcel and Cambridge. Both their websites will have search engines for their centres in every country. Then contact the centre to see if they allow external candidates.

international school do Cognita schools offer them and they are everywhere

Make sure you are seeking to do them / for your child to do them for the right reasons. I heard of someone who was homeschooled overseas, did a series of IGCSEs as part of a plan to return to the UK then A levels here. The staggered IGCSEs caused problems with applying for medicine, though I don't know all the facts in the case! A local qualification may have been more transferable/able to be overlooked.

What do you call the right reasons?

He's wanting to do some because he was almost through the GCSE course in the UK (accelerated scheme) and is following the normal progression here, which is fine but is seems a waste to have done so much work and not see anything for it. I figured I could get a tutor to bridge the gap between gcse and igsce (content). He will be doing local qualifications, but wants to do this as well (partly because there’s a language issue and we think that doing the qualification in English might be useful if doing other exams in another language might pull his grades down (it’s a language he’s always spoken, but never had to write before)

I did mine in the British Embassy. Would be worth checking with them.

MAke sure that the exam board you are looking for is the one that your child has studied. Once you know that then go on the webistes. Cut off days for teh overseas ones are really early for registering . Also try any international schools as often they accept external places.