Qualifications Updates
Recent Updates – Additional Set Piece Lists
Available for Acting, Speaking Verse & Prose and Introductory qualifications, these lists extend the range of options for the set pieces component of these exams, offering a greater variety of pieces to choose from for the set piece component of your exam.
Set Piece Options now include:
• You can either use the pieces from our current Anthology, our last Anthology, or you can use an alternative source and you can access the start and end point for the pieces in the Additional Set
Piece List
• L2 – You can use a range of relevant GCSE options
• L3 – You can use a range of relevant A level options
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Please note: If using a GCSE or A Level Set piece, your Learner must introduce the title of the Piece selected and the Awarding Organisation the Set Piece was taken from.
Group Syllabus Update
The new Group Syllabus was launched as of August 2025. First Exams will be run from 1st January 2026.
All Learners/ Groups planning to take an exam after 1st Jan 2026 must use the new syllabus.
Major updates include: We have made the qualifications more accessible to different Learners by increasing options for pieces and stimuli used within exams, we have also allowed for a mixture of read and memorised contributions from Learners that can be set according to the Group needs.
Webinars to explain the updates in more detail can be accessed on the Exams page of the website.
If you have started to prepare the Learners using the old syllabus and your selections cannot apply to the new syllabus, you may apply for a late registration onto the old syllabus for exams before August 2026. To access this route, you must evidence when the Learners started their preparation and how being examined on the new syllabus may disadvantage them.
Please note: ALL applications for a late registration must be made as early as possible before an exam and cannot be accommodated after.
Reviews and New Qualifications
Our current reviews underway are PCERT LAM and Musical Theatre.
We are also working on a range of new qualifications.
For example, our Storytelling qualification, due for launch Feb 2026 with first exams from August 2026, is a great alternative to Recital and Choral speaking for mixed groups who may have various needs and this qualification is unique in our portfolio as Learners can contribute in a number of ways that do not all need to be verbal.
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