Note: This policy applies only to IELTS for UKVI testing, including IELTS Life Skills.
A. Cancellations
You can cancel your IELTS test registration at any time before taking your test by notifying your Test
Centre. Refund terms depend upon when you cancel and whether exceptional circumstances apply.
1. Time to test date
1.1 More than 14 days before the test: If you cancel your IELTS test registration
more than 14 days
before the test you will receive a 75% refund of the total test fee.
1.2 Within 14 days but more than 2 days before the test: If you cancel your IELTS
test registration
within 14 days but more than 2 days before the test you will receive a 50% refund of the total test fee.
1.3 Within 2 days of the test: If you cancel your IELTS test registration within 2
days of the test
you will receive a 25% refund of the total test fee.
1.4 On the test day or after the test: If you cancel your IELTS test registration on
the test day or
after the test no refund will be provided.
2. Test taker exceptions
You may make a case for exceptional circumstances to your test centre before the test and up to 5 days after
the test date if you did not attend the test. Your test centre will respond to you within 7 working days of
receiving your case in writing. Your test centre will assess your case for exceptional circumstances.
All cases for exceptional circumstances and supporting evidence must be received by your test centre no later
than 5 days after the scheduled test date.
If your test centre approves your case, you will receive a full refund less an administration fee of no more
than 25% of the test fee.
If your test centre does not approve your case, then the terms given in Section 1 will apply.
We define exceptional circumstances as:
A traumatic experience
Domestic crisis
Unavoidable legal or military obligation
Serious medical conditions which prevent you from attending or performing normally on test day.
Bereavement, or other forms of significant hardship.
Civil unrest, extreme weather
3. Test centre exceptions
Under certain circumstances outside test centre control, we may have to cancel your test. These
circumstances
include, and are not limited to, extreme weather conditions, natural disaster, civil unrest and
industrial
action.
In these circumstances, your test centre will provide you with as much notice as possible and give you
the
choice of either:
a full refund, or
a transfer to a future test date convenient to you.
In cases where your test centre cancels a test under circumstances within its control then in addition to
a
full refund or transfer to another test date, you may be eligible to apply for compensation for expenses
incurred. Your eligibility will be assessed as a reasonable claim or not by the test centre and any
compensation will be awarded depending on the following conditions:
The test centre will assess whether the decision to cancel is within or outside its control.
Any compensation awarded will be limited to travel and accommodation expenses only and which are:
directly incurred as a result of planning your attendance on test day
evidenced by payment receipt(s)
evidenced that cancelled travel and/or accommodation charges are non-recoverable from vendor
benchmarked against lowest reasonable market rates for the expenses in question (this will be
carried out by the test centre).
If you travel further than the closest test venue to your normal place of residence then the test
center
will not find your claim reasonable.
B. Transfers
More than 14 days before the test:
You may change your test date at any time more than 14 days before the test.
You must select a test date, where available, within the next three months from your original test date.
If your preferred test date is more than three months after your original test date then your transfer
will be treated as a cancellation.
You can only transfer the same booking once and cancellation will not be allowed afterwards.
Your test centre will charge an administration fee of 800 THB.
Within 14 days before the test:
Any transfer requests within 14 days of the test will be treated as a cancellation. Please refer to
Section A (Cancellations) of this policy document.
Note:
Your test centre is responsible for issuing refunds and organizing transfers.
Under Section A.2, the test centre is responsible for decisions related to test taker claims for
exceptional circumstances.
Under Section A.3, the test centre is responsible for decisions related to compensation, including
eligibility and any amounts awarded.
If local consumer protection law in the country where you have registered to take the IELTS test
provides for cancellation and transfer rights which are more favourable to the test taker than the
rights set out above, then local consumer protection law will apply.