GCE AL History

AL History with Edexcel
Edexcel/Pearson has recently revamped its website and a number of students who have used the website to find an exam centre have contacted us to say that History is not available to private candidates.  Those who have contacted Students Services at Edexcel have been advised that History has been dropped because private candidates cannot offer the coursework for Unit 4.
Rest assured! This advice is wrong. You can still take History exams with Edexcel.
There is no coursework for AS and so the AS history exams are available to all private candidates. For A2, Unit 3 is a written exam paper and A4 is coursework. A2 is available to private candidates only if you have a Tutor who will mark your coursework and forward it to your exam centre with the required documents. Our Tutor is able to do this for you.
I have asked for the information on the Edexcel website to be corrected. In the meantime, if you are looking for a centre and use the centre location facility for private candidates on the Edexcel website, try looking at centres for another subject, e.g. Government & Politics, and contacting the centre(s) that come up. It is most unlikely that centres, which are usually schools or colleges, will only offer one subject and so they may well offer History as well. You may need to explain that, contrary to what the Edexcel website states, History IS available. Do keep me posted with what you find out from your enquiries.