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title: "Informing, preparing and giving feedback to candidates"
description: "What candidates must be told before an OSCE, how to prepare them fairly, how to release results and feedback, and how to handle appeals."
canonical: https://studydrome.com/docs/osce/candidates/
updated: 2026-10-10
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# Informing, preparing and giving feedback to candidates

What candidates must be told before an OSCE, how to prepare them fairly, how to release results and feedback, and how to handle appeals.

This section is about the candidate's side of the exam. Candidates who understand the format, the rules, and the standard perform closer to their ability. Candidates who receive useful feedback improve. Candidates who feel the process was fair accept a result they did not want. None of those outcomes happens by luck. Each one is designed.

The section starts before the exam. It sets out what a candidate handbook must contain. It says how far in advance to publish the blueprint and the format. It shows how to run practice stations and mock circuits without leaking the live bank. It covers reasonable adjustments and the process for requesting them.

It then covers exam day from the candidate's view. The briefing. The rules on phones and on talking to other candidates. What to do if they are unwell, or if a station goes wrong for them.

The largest part covers what happens after. How are results released, and in what form? What feedback should a candidate receive per station and overall, and how soon? How do you give feedback that changes behavior, rather than a score sheet that confirms a grade? The section closes with appeals. It sets out the grounds, the process, the evidence the school must produce, and the timeline.

The exam office, the student support team and the assessment lead own this section. Candidates read these pages more than any others in the guide. So they are written to be quoted to candidates as they stand.