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We offer 2 exams. Both are optional and both can be sat in your own home. (No exam centre nerves) 1. The Lingfield Certificate exams.2. The British Horse Society Horse Owner's Certificates exams.1. Lingfield Certificates - also called Lingfield Equine Certificates, are awarded on successful completion of your course and exam/final assignmment. The exams take the form of a final assignment at the end of each course. These exams are entirely optional and are sat at your home without supervision. We take it on trust that our students will complete them seriously and sensibly as though they were supervised. The assignments are basically a set of revision questions covering the material and research undertaken during your course. Most assignments contain a number of short questions and 2-3 questions requiring longer essay style answers. Previous assignments undertaken throughout the course, together with the topic specific Answer Guidance Sheets contained in all our courses, should mean you are well prepare you for this final exam. We want you to achieve, so your tutor provides as much help as is possible to enable you to gain your award. Your exam/assingment is sent in to your tutor for checking with a small admin fee. If your work is satisfactory, your tutor will award your certificate. If some answers need a little more work, your tutor will return the paper with helpful comments and feedback suggesting how you might improve on the answers. Having repeated the required answers, send it back to your tutor and when all has been successfully completed, the relevant course certificate is awarded. Certification / Administration fee £15.00 (£17 outside UK) These are amateur awards and do not count towards any professional qualification. The theory on equine care and management provided in our long courses however, is often used to gain the theory knowledge on which professional students are questioned during the day of exams for professional BHS or ABRS instructors qualifications.
2. British Horse Society (BHS) Horse Owner’s Certificates exams are entirely optional. Lingfield Correspondence incorporates the syllabus in the long courses, We can therefore offer each BHS HOC Level at the end of individual long courses providing the strict procedures are adhered to. Those enrolled on an Intermediate Diploma programme are offered the option to go straight into sit Level 2 of the BHS HOC's without first having to sit the Level 1 exam. In UK & Eire we can usually arrange for you to sit the BHS exams in your own home - see below for outside UK and Eire. Conforming strictly to BHS guidelines, we will set up the exam providing we are able to locate a suitable external freelance invigilator. We generaly locate a suitable person via an educational facility locally to the student. The BHS exams department 01926-707700 will confirm validity of these exams. If for some reason we are unable to locate a suitable person within a reasonable timescale (this is unlikely), at this stage, and not before, you may provide details of a local instructor who is prepared to oversee the exam (this option is available only under these circumstances). You will need to locate the instructor yourself and it should be noted here that not all instructors would feel able to do this for you, especially if they run their own courses for Horse Owner's Certificates. We will provide procedures for contacting suitable instructors at the required time. The instructor must be on the list of UK Registered Instructors or an ABRS Instructor. A map linking to area lists for the BHS will be found at the foot of the BHS page found by clicking here. The ABRS office will provide names of ABRS instructors in your area: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . In the event that Lingfield Correspondence is unable to locate a suitable invigilator we will refund the BHS part of the fee which is currently £15 Residents outside UK & Eire
Overseas students may sit the exams at the British Council offices in their own country. Students must contact the British Council personally in their own country of residence to establish availability of exam facilities, venue and costs, all of which must be paid by the student as well as the exam fee stated below.See http://www.britishcouncil.org
About BHS exams:The BHS exams at each of their Levels follow the same format. They take the form of a written paper of 90 minutes duration offering 30 short questions and 4 long questions. A percentage of 60% correct answers is required for a pass. The exams are run under normal exam conditions i.e. in the same way that most college or school examinations are held. No books or notes are available to the student during the exam. IMPORTANT NOTE: The BHS HOC exams are not part of the BHS Stages, nor do they count towards the BHS stages. The HOC’s are amateur qualifications, whereas the Stages are professional qualifications. No part of the BHS Stages exams are written. The theory on equine care & management is questioned orally during the day of the various Stages exams. The Stages exams are all practical exams and are run by the BHS at various exam centres around the country. The Lingfield long courses are however used by many students to gain the theory knowledge on which they would be questioned during their professional exams. More information on becoming a Riding Instructor and gaining professional qualifications will be found in the book The Lingfield Instructor Group ‘Guide’ here. http://www.bhs.org.uk/content/Ods-More.asp?id=1866&pg=Education&spg=Information&area=2 To be eligible to sit the BHS HOC exams with Lingfield Correspondence you must follow the procedures and successfully complete the relevant assignments in your own handwriting. In Level 1 only, a Practical Tack session must also be completed under the jurisdiction of a local, fully qualified BHSAI or ABRS Instructor. |
