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

This page will be kept up-to-date with information for Candidates and their supporters for the IRSE Professional Examination

 

IRSE exam review on 8 April 2025 (for October 2024 exam) is now online

The IRSE Younger Members hosted this year's exam review which had members of the IRSE Exam Committee give feedback to candidates for all modules, based on the October 2024 exam.

Watch it on our dedicated Vimeo Exam Study area - https://vimeo.com/showcase/study

October 2025 exam - booking is now open

Exam date for all modules is Saturday 4 October 2025. Candidates will be allowed to sit the Certificate (Module A) or up to 3 of Modules B, C and D.

The Certificate is open to all, members and non-members.

The remaining modules are only available to IRSE members** who have previously passed an exam module and who are up-to-date with their subscriptions.

Booking is now open and will close on 22 August 2025 (scroll down for links to booking pages)

** You are encouraged to apply for IRSE membership as soon as possible so that you can access study materials for modules B, C and D.

March 2025 exam

All candidates have been informed of their exam results and certificates have been sent to all successful candidates

Younger Members' study webinars for all exam candidates

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.

Certificate in Railway Control Engineering Fundamentals (Module A) October 2025
Booking is open until 20 August for the exam on Saturday 4 October 2025. Do ensure that you read and understand the terms and conditions before booking. There is a candidate guide for you in the main exam page document library.
Modules B-D October 2025
Booking is open until 20 August for our professional exams on Saturday 4 October 2025. Do ensure that you read and understand the terms and conditions before booking. There is a candidate guide for you in the main exam page document library. All candidates sitting Modules B, C and/or D must be fully paid-up members of the IRSE (at any grade) and have passed at least one exam module already - this will be checked after you have booked.