Examination day arrangements

Examinations are held annually in June for the Diploma and in June and November for the Certificate.

The examination day arrangements for all centres (except those with special exam centres) are currently made by the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) who will advise you, on behalf of IRM, where and at what time you should report for the examinations.

Examination centres

The precise location of the Institute's examination centres may change from year to year. Details of the examination centres available for the November 2011 examinations will be posted here in October 2011.

In general examination centres are available at the following locations:

UK examination centres

Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Brighton (Hove), Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Chelmsford, Derby, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Guernsey, Isle of Man (Douglas), Jersey, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northampton, Norwich, Nottingham, Plymouth, Southampton.

Overseas examination centres

Australia (Sydney, Melbourne), Barbados (St Michael), Bermuda, Botswana (Gaborone), British Virgin Islands (Tortola), Canada (Ottawa), Cayman Islands (Grand Cayman), Cyprus (Nicosia), Ghana (Accra, Kumasi), Gibraltar, Guyana (Georgetown), Hong Kong, India (Bangalore, Chennai, Kollata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, Secunderabad), Ireland (Cork, Dublin, Waterford), Jamaica (Kingston), Kenya (Nairobi), Malawi (Blantyre, Lilongwe), Mauritius (Reduit), Mauritius (Reduit), New Zealand (Auckland), Nigeria (Abuja, Enugu, Ibadan, Kaduna, Lagos, Port Harcourt), Sierra Leone (Freetown), Singapore, South Africa (Johannesburg), Sri Lanka (Colombo), Tanzania (Dar-Es-Salaam), Trinidad (Port of Spain), Uganda (Kampala), UAE (Dubai), Zambia (Kitwe, Lusaka), Zimbabwe (Harare)

When completing the Certificate or Diploma application form, students must indicate their preferred examination centre. Students who do not indicate their preference will automatically be allocated to the centre nearest to their correspondence address.

Special examination centres

Overseas candidates in areas other than those listed above may make an application to IRM to arrange a Special Centre.  All Special Centre applications must be made on the appropriate form and submitted to the Institute by 28 February for the June examinations and by 31 July for the November examinations.  A fee of £50 must also accompany the form.  Where such arrangements are made, candidates are also required to pay any local supplementary charges made by the centre. You can download a copy of the form here: Special Centre Application Form

Special arrangements

Wherever possible, IRM will provide examination arrangements that take account of students' special needs.  Students should submit any request for special arrangements by 28 February for the June examinations and by 31 July for the November examinations..  This is to enable the Institute to effectively assist with special arrangements.  While the Institute aims to meet all such requests it cannot undertake to fulfil individual requirements where submissions are received late.  The Special Arrangements form can be downloaded here.