Taking A-Level Arabic as a private candidate
If your school doesn’t offer Arabic, or you’re returning to study on your own, you can still sit the full A-Level. Here’s how entry works.
A fuller guide — naming real exam centres, including in London — is on the way. The essentials:
You enter through a centre
Private candidates sit the exam at a centre that accepts external entries. Entries usually close in the autumn for the following summer’s exams, so the deadline arrives earlier than most people expect. Finding a centre that offers Arabic specifically is the part worth starting early.
What a tutor handles for you
When there’s no school behind you, a tutor covers what a school would otherwise organise: helping you find a centre, working back from the entry deadline, and making sure nothing on the specification is assumed knowledge you were never taught. Most of our students take Arabic exactly this way — evenings or weekends, online.
Is it realistic?
Yes, with the same honesty we’d give anyone: it rewards consistent work across two years, and there’s a real cut-off for starting late in Year 13. We’ll tell you in a trial lesson whether your timeline is workable. How hard A-Level Arabic is →
Book a free trial lesson and tell us you’re a private candidate — the form has a box for exactly that.
Want this marked by someone who marks the exam?
One 45-minute lesson, online, no payment details — we’ll tell you honestly where you stand and what’s achievable in the time you’ve got.
Book a free trial lesson