How late can you register for an A level exam?

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Am just having a minor panic and thought wise Mumsnetters might be able to put me out of my misery tonight rather than having to wait until I can speak to school tomorrow.

DS is resitting one of his AS biology exams in the hope of achieving the A he needs for his first choice uni. I've just realised that, whilst school gave us dates for his A2 exams, they don't seem to have given us a date for his AS resit. The piece of paper is probably lurking in his bedroom but, in the unlikely event that he hasn't been entered, does anyone know if it's now too late?

I've looked on the edexcel website under late entries and they talk about higher fees but don't seem to say how late you can enter students.

Am feeling stressed at the moment and I could do without worrying about this overnight! Anyone got any advice?

I think you can still be entered for units but you pay double - i think it goes up the nearer to the exams so the quicker you sort this the better.
I think you can be entered all the way up to the date as long as the centre has sufficient papers but it justs costs more.

Thanks Fearcuts. I can't believe I didn't notice this before. It was only tonight that I decided to re-check all of DS2 and DS3's exams that we suddenly noticed the absence of the AS on the list he had from school.

His firm uni want AAA. He got AAB for AS, the B being in Biology. He got A and C for his two AS Biology exams and he wants to improve on the C so he meets his required grades.

I suppose the deadline we missed for pointing out any errors is the school's deadline.

Iirc we entered DD for A levels on the day or certainly for the next day, when she had a row with her school and decided to sit at an exam centre.

are you sure he can do a resit? many centres, exam boards and unis now ban them