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Where Can Cambridge International Students Check Key Times and Full Centre Supervision?

Start with Cambridge International’s Key Times lookup and select the exam centre’s location. Cambridge defines a Key Time as the point when candidates taking timetabled exams must be either in the exam or under Full Centre Supervision. Use the location of the centre, not simply the student’s nationality.

Read the relevant exam-year handbook through the Cambridge Exams Officers’ Guide. Its linked 2026 Key Times and Full Centre Supervision section explains that year’s arrangements. Then ask the school or registered exam centre to confirm the candidate’s reporting time, exam start and any supervision period.

Did you know a Key Time need not be the same as the exam’s start time? Cambridge’s timetabling explanation shows why supervision may be needed before or after a paper. A time found online is not permission to arrive later or leave earlier than your centre instructs.

Find your next step

Find Key Times and the relevant handbook · Separate location, exam start and supervision · Confirm the candidate’s centre-issued schedule

Which official source answers your question?

Your questionOfficial sourceWhat to check
Where is the location lookup?Cambridge Key TimesCentre location and current applicable information
Which timetable zone applies?Administrative-zone lookupLocation and the matching examination timetable
Where are the regulations?Exams Officers’ GuideRelevant exam-year handbook and updates
What does the 2026 section explain?Key Times and Full Centre Supervision 2026 — PDFTimetabled exams, supervision and worked examples
Choose the source for your specific question, then check its scope before acting.

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Which times belong on the candidate’s own schedule?

Keep the exam date and session, centre reporting time, paper start, and any required supervision together. Label each clearly. If two documents seem inconsistent, send the exact details to the centre and ask it to reconcile them.

Match the centre location and administrative zone

Cambridge’s administrative-zone page asks you to select the location and warns that the timetable must match the correct zone. Record the qualification, session and syllabus or component details supplied by the centre beside that information.

If you are taking an examination while overseas, do not reuse a schedule from another country without checking. Ask the centre handling your entry to confirm the applicable arrangements. A classmate’s schedule or a previous year’s screenshot may refer to a different centre, session or paper.

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Keep Key Time and starting time in separate fields

Cambridge’s explanatory guidance distinguishes the security requirement at the Key Time from the centre’s timetabling of a paper. Candidates can be in an exam at that point, or in the required supervision when the exam falls before or after it.

Ask for the actual candidate instructions rather than calculating your arrival from a general example. If you have more than one paper, check the complete sequence with the centre. You are confirming a schedule, not choosing which of several times would be most convenient.

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Understand supervision without treating it as free time

The 2026 handbook section describes Full Centre Supervision as a defined arrangement run by trained centre staff. It includes restrictions on electronic devices and communication outside the supervised group. Read the applicable rules and follow the centre’s instructions.

Clarify practical questions before the day: where to report, how belongings are handled and when you may leave. If you are a private candidate, direct these questions to the centre handling your entry. Do not arrange transport on the assumption that finishing the written paper always means immediate release.

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Check scope and the year before applying a rule

The 2026 section says Key Times apply to timetabled sessions, not windowed examinations such as the examples it gives of speaking tests, Art & Design exams and Cambridge Checkpoint tests. Identify the assessment before borrowing another candidate’s instructions.

For another exam year, return to the Officers’ Guide and confirm the relevant handbook and updates with the centre. For the wider task of identifying the correct examination calendar, use our world examination calendar source tracker. Keep its calendar role separate from the centre’s individual reporting and supervision instructions.

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Your next useful step

Open the official location tools and the handbook for the relevant year, then compare them with the centre’s candidate notice. Ask one precise question about any unexplained reporting or supervision period. Save the centre’s confirmation with the exact paper and session details.

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Official Cambridge International lookup and explanatory pages, plus the 2026 Key Times and Full Centre Supervision section, reviewed: 19 October 2026. No location-specific time is asserted here; confirm the relevant year, centre and candidate schedule.

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