Exam News - Certificate in Railway Control Engineering Fundamentals and Advance Diploma of Railway Control Engineering 

The IRSE Younger Members are running a series of webinars on the 'Back to Basics' series of articles from IRSE News, which will be of particular interest to exam candidates for all modules.

Keep an eye on the IRSE events page,  the Younger Members' Eventbrite page, or get in touch with them at younger.members@irse.org for more details.  Recordings of previous sessions are held on the IRSE Study Vimeo page.

Update 13 September:

Some candidates are trying to log into the exam system using their IRSE website logins and/or are attempting to access the exam software via the IRSE website. Please see your email of 24 September for details of your case-sensitive login and password for the IRSE Moodle system (https://irse.moodle.tituslearning.com/login/index.php) 

Our SmowlTech partners (remote proctoring software) have informed us that their system will be unavailable on Wednesday 4 October between 06:00 and 09:00 UTC. 

Update 5 September:

A few candidates have had "001 security error" messages when attempting to use the remote invigilation software (Smowl) on their work computer - Please talk to your work IT people to get them to fix this for you - it could be that you have not gained permission to install software on your work computer.  To guide your work IT team, they may find the Smowl FAQs of use - https://smowl.net/en/faqs-proctoring-smowl/  and the specific instructions for students/candidates https://smowl.net/en/faqs-proctoring-smowl/user/  

All candidates are reminded that they must register for the remote invigilation software (Smowl) before starting their exam module(s) on Saturday 7 October, and that the software must be downloaded on their computer and running with no security issues.

Update 25 August:

All candidates have been sent details of how to register for the remote invigilation software (Smowl) and how to access their practice exam sessions.  If you have not received this email (dated 24 August), please check your junk mail and if it is not there, get in touch with the exam team at exam@irse.org

All candidates must register for the remote invigilation software (Smowl) before sitting their exam module(s) on Saturday 7 October.

All candidates are strongly encouraged to familiarise themselves with the exam software before exam day, even if they have used it before.

Future exams are expected to be held in March (for Certificate (module A) only) and early October (for Certificate (module A) or Modules B, C and/or D) every year.

The 2024 exam dates have now been announced -

• Saturday 24 March 2024 for Certificate candidates only - due to planned IT maintenance, bookings for March 2024 Certificate (module A) will open in January 2024. See below for ruleset agreed by Education & Professional Development Committee for the 2024 exams.  The cost will remain the same as October 2023 (£120 per person).
• Saturday 5 October 2024 for all candidates - booking to be open May/June 2024.  See below for ruleset agreed by Education & Professional Development Committee for the 2024 exams. The cost is to be announced.

The ruleset for the 2024 IRSE professional exams has been agreed by Education & Professional Development Committee as:

• Candidates for the Certificate (module A) do not need to be IRSE members
• For October exams - Candidates will be able to sit either the Certificate (module A) or between one and 3 of Modules B to D
• Those candidates wishing to sit Modules B, C and/or D must be fully paid-up members (at any grade) and have previously passed an exam module.  Note that potential candidates interested in taking modules B, C and/or D are encouraged to apply to become members of IRSE as soon as possible so that they can gain access to the full suite of exam study material - if they apply after February 2024, it cannot be guaranteed that their membership application will be processed and agreed before the exam booking closing date

Candidates have now been sent their results by email and their certificates are in the post.  Those who have failed (near miss and fail grades) have been given feedback on their performance by learning objective.

Please do complete our survey for March 2023 candidates so that we can improve the exam experience for future candidates - https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/JZFLRSK