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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

 

March 2025 exam

Booking is now closed for the exam on Saturday 1 March 2025.

All March 2025 candidates have been given access to the IRSE exam website, along with details of how to register their photo ID and access the practice exam. Please use this time to log in, register your photo ID, download and install the remote invigilation software, and practice to ensure that it works, along with continuing to study for the exam.

An email detailing final arrangements has been sent to all candidates on Tuesday 25 March. Note that the 'one pager' on how to access the exam itself is in the document library below and a direct link is here.

note that if you must use your March 2025 exam login credentials to access the March 2025 exam area

October 2025 exam

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 expected to open in May 2025.

** 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.

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.

October 2024 exam - Saturday 5 October

News 28 February 2025

All results have been sent out today to the remaining B, C and D candidates.

The whole team apologise for the delays on issuing the results.

Please note that candidates who had issues raised by anti-plagiarism / remote invigilation software were informed that they were subject to investigation - and all have been previously informed of the outcome. Anyone within this process will be aware that their results are 'withheld' or they are 'disqualified'.