Guidance

File format

Updated 19 March 2021

Name Description Position Validation Regular Expression Description of Regular Expression
Exam Series Exam series data relates to, for example June 2017 1 ^(January|June|March|November)([ ][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])$ Full month name of exam series and year
Awarding Organisation Name of the awarding organisation 3 ^.{1,100}$ One to 100 characters accepted
Centre No. NCN number of centre at time of certification 9 ^.{1,5}$ One to 5 characters accepted
Qualification level Level of qualification, for example GCSE 4 ^(GCSE|AS|A level)$ One of the following list: GCSE, AS, A level
Unique Candidate Identifier Unique Candidate Identifier (UCI) 13 ^.{1,13}$ One to 13 characters accepted