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• Students locate a CBE centre in their area offering the exam(s) they wish to sit by CBE.
• When arranging bookings with the CBE centre, the exams staff will check the identity of the students against their ACCA registration cards and will also check the eligibility of the students to take the exam(s) they wish to sit.
• Students pay the CBE centre directly for the exams.
• Prior to the exam, the CBE centre will set up time-restricted access to the exams for the students. (The exam must be sat on the scheduled date and time).
• On the day of the exam, the students' identity is checked by the invigilator against the ACCA registration cards, further validity and eligibility checks are carried out, and then the invigilator instructions will be read out.
• Students are then asked to start the exam software and input validation details the into the software.  This will further check their identity and eligibility to sit the exams.
• Instruction screens will be displayed and the students may then start the exam when advised to do so by the invigilator.
• Once the exam is started, the questions are displayed on screen and the answers are input directly onto the CBE software.
• Upon completion of the exam, the final percentage score is calculated and displayed on screen.
• Students will be asked to print two copies of the Provisional Result Notification; one copy is retained by the CBE centre and the other is for the students' records.
• The CBE centre uploads the results to the CBE system and these will be transferred to the students' accounts with ACCA within 72 hours.

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