Remote invigilation practice exam sessions – book now

22 November 2024

We are pleased to give candidates an opportunity to practice sitting an exam using the new system, so they can experience all the new processes around remote invigilation before they sit a live exam.

Experience remote invigilation

We will be running three sessions in the new year where candidates will be able to experience sitting an IFoA exam with remote invigilation under our new exam rules.

Candidates will have the opportunity to experience all key exam processes from start to finish in these practice exam sessions.

This will include:

  • Receiving a welcome email, which will include the new guardian browser.
  • Launching the exam platform from within the new guardian browser.
  • Carrying out pre-exam checks for remote invigilation and the exam platform.
  • Launching remote invigilation and going through the onboarding steps.
  • Downloading the exam paper.
  • Uploading an exam answer document (this can be any Word document as we want candidates to experience the exam answer upload process, they will not need to complete a full mock exam).
  • Ending the remote invigilation session.

These practice exam sessions are an excellent opportunity for candidates to practice setting up their exam environment in accordance with our exam rules.

This is also an opportunity to practice sitting an IFoA exam on the device and in the location that candidates plan to sit their April 2025 exams.

How to take part

Practice exam sessions will take place on the following dates and times:

  • 22 January 2025 (09:00 UK time): this session is now full
  • 4 February 2025 (14:00 UK time): this session is now full
  • 18 February 2025 (09:00 UK time): this session is now full

Update (13 January 2025)

Confirmation emails have now gone out to all those who have booked their places for the assigned Practice Session Dates. These emails were sent from exams@actuaries.org.uk, if you have not received please check your spam folders.

If you were unable to book one of our practice exam sessions you will still be able to access support for navigating remote invigilation when we release video resources and update our Examinations Handbook later in the year. We will notify you when these are available.

If you have any further questions about the practice exams session, please email us at: examsupport@actuaries.org.uk.