I'm just wondering what happens if you decide to submit another candidate online after you've sent your postal entries in. Does anyone know if that's ok or does it really confuse the system? Thanks for your thoughts. Loz x

Hi Loz, I should think it would confuse things and your candidate would end up being entered twice. I think you're only supposed to use one method or the other.

Can't see that there would be a problem... Though I suppose it's possible they might finish up with different days?

Oh sorry, I thought you meant entering the same candidate again! Sbhoa's right.

This doesn't quite answer your question but I once had to enter a candidate after I'd entered all my others (she decided very late to take her exam) using the paper system (before we had on-line entry) and all candidates were accepted but she got a different date to the rest. ABRSM refused my request to have her examined at the same time on the grounds she was a "separate entry" and provision couldn't be made for her on the day the others were being examined (and vice-versa) because the timetable was full. So I went to the exam centre twice......

Hope this might help a bit.

Every time you submit a separate entry in any format, the AB system regards it as exactly that. You will get different exam dates for the candidates you have entered.

You entered a candidate separately via the online system. Exactly the same would have happened had you entered a subsequent candidate via a postal entry form.

Steve

I've had to submit separate entries a few times, but I've always emailed and asked for them to be examined at the same time and there's never been a problem.

There was one occasion when the last candidate of the first batch withdrew, and as it was a separate entry the AB wouldn't let me bring the time of the second batch forward. They put someone else into the gap, and although he went in on time the examiner spent ages with him so by the time my second batch started they were running really late!