Taking exams through LCCI
Our secretarial studies and administration courses are written to match London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Examinations Board (LCCI) qualifications. You study with us, but you’ll need to enter for the exams through LCCI themselves. There’s more about entering for exams on our exams advice page.
About LCCI
LCCI has been providing qualifications for over 100 years. It now receives over half a million exam entries from more than 80 countries each year, for qualifications in business, secretarial and language subjects. It has been part of Education Development International since 2002. You can contact LCCI at,
London Chamber of Commerce & Industry Examinations Board
Qualifications Processing Centre
Athena House
112 Station Road
Sidcup
United Kingdom
DA15 7BJ
Tel +44 (0) 20 8302 0261
Website: http://www.lccieb.org.uk
In general, LCCI exams take 2? hours, and have a 50 per cent pass mark. They ask a varying number of questions drawn from the entire subject in the form of work-like exercises. Text Production and Audio Transcription are different: they have a 97 per cent pass mark; rather than gaining marks with your answers, you lose them through making mistakes. The exams are slightly shorter, too.
You'll need to register for exams well in advance of when you take them.
Note that some students have reported difficulties in getting a suitable exam centre. If you are not concerned with gaining the LCCI Diploma, but want a qualification in a subject on its own, you may find that one of the other exam boards such as Pitman Qualifications or OCR/RSA has a more convenient exam centre where a very similar qualification is being examined.
Remember that if you choose to sit for one of these instead of the LCCI qualification, you must contact the exam board you’ve chosen for a syllabus and past exam papers so that you can find out any differences and prepare for them.
Shorthand speed tests
Many different exam boards offer shorthand speed tests ranging from 50 to 180 words per minute. Generally speaking, 60 words per minute is considered to be the minimum to aim for, with 80 wpm being an intermediate speed and 100 wpm representing an advanced speed. Unless you are studying shorthand as part of your PSD, contact LCCI, Pitman, and OCR to see who has the most convenient test centre for you.
