Apply for exam counselling

We offer an exam counselling service to students where the exam in question is the last one required to qualify as an Associate or Fellow.

This will help you to understand:

why you failed a paper
how you can improve your performance in that subject
how you can improve your exam technique generally

About the service

The 2 counselling arrangements available are:

a comprehensive written report with comments on your performance and advice to help you in your next attempt at the exam
a comprehensive written report with a follow-up telephone call with a counsellor – you will be required to take the call within 1 month of receiving your report or you will lose this opportunity

The exam counselling service is not available for Core Principles (CS, CM and CB exams).

Retrospective counselling for a previous exam sitting is unavailable as we do not keep exam scripts longer than 16 weeks as per our data retention policy.

Exam counselling will not give you:

access to the detailed breakdown of your marks
access to your exam script
comparisons with other students who passed the exam

For full details about the counselling service, please see: Exam counselling: information for CP1-3, SP and SA subjects (PDF, 150 KB)

Service dates: September 2025 exams

The exam counselling service for the September 2025 exams is available from 8 December 2025 to 20 January 2026.