I have my Grade 5 flute exam in 14 days time. A small cross-section of my students are also doing various grades. As I know I will be in small pieces after my exam, I have put them all on first, leaving a 45-minute gap afterwards which is filled by another teacher's entries, and then my G5. But I always find it difficult handling their nerves as well as my own. We don't have an actual exam centre in this remote back-of-beyond, so always need to have a special visit, and in this instance it's only a few hours. Just wondered how other teachers cope with this?

I did my grade 5 clarinet on the same day and at the same centre as my grade 5 piano student.
I told her (adult student) that her exam and mine would have to be at different times of the day by choice. It helped a little that I needed a morning time and she an afternoon one (Trinity with a centre where they do try to accomodate requested time slots to within about an hour).
She was fine with that as I'm sure the parents of my younger students would have been.
Having said that I did find that having to ask about warm up facilities for pianists on her behalf helped my nerves a little as I was in teacher mode for that.

She got one more mark than me....

I just use a different exam board. AB for me and Trinity or LCM for my pupils.
I'm taking AB G2 Classical Guitar at Easter.

I did grade 5 flute following 4 clarinet pupils. It was okay actually as I was accompanying them, so was thinking about that, rather than my exam.

I have found a distinct advantage in doing them at the same time as my pupils - the examiners tend to be friendlier knowing I am taking an exam on a second (or third or fourth!) instrument. I have done better in the three exams I took at the same time as pupils (one in each of recorder, piano and singing) than the ones I did separately.

Thanks so much for this feedback.

Andante_in_c, how did the examiner know you were taking an exam on an instrument other than your first? That only happened to me one time when I was there for my pupils, and we got chatting during her coffee-break. I did a piano exam later that day and got a better mark than I expected. But most times, the examiner has no idea.

I reckon the giveaway on Andante-in-C's singing exam occasion, was that the first candidate of the morning was Mrs KT Jay playing recorder, submitted for for exam by Mrs Andante-in-C; and the third candidate of the morning was Mrs Andante-in-C singing, submitted for exam by Mrs KT Jay......

The examiner asked me about it at the end of my exam, so knew already by Andante-in-C's exam.