{"id":49423,"date":"2026-07-31T19:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=49423"},"modified":"2026-07-31T19:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:57:55","slug":"rsgb-examinations-standards-committee-publishes-annual-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2026\/07\/31\/rsgb-examinations-standards-committee-publishes-annual-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Examinations Standards Committee annual report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/committees\/examination-standards-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB Examinations Standards Committee<\/strong><\/a> (ESC) has published its annual report, relating to activities in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The report shows that, although overall candidate numbers in 2025 decreased a little compared with 2024, they remain about 20 percent higher than predictions, based on the extrapolation of pre-2019 trends.<\/p>\n<p>The ESC believes that this is largely due to the increased accessibility of training courses and examinations online.<\/p>\n<p>The ESC noted that the initial feedback received from candidates on the publication of the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.services\/public\/exams\/eqdb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Full level question bank<\/strong><\/a> has been very positive.<\/p>\n<p>However, a few months of exam data are needed before the full impact of the measure can be assessed, and then consideration given to rolling it out at other levels.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/examination-standards-committee-reports\/2026\/07\/30\/examinations-standards-committee-report-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>read the report here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB Examinations Standards Committee (ESC) has published its annual report, relating to activities in 2025. The report shows that, although overall candidate numbers in 2025 decreased a little compared with 2024, they remain about 20 percent higher than predictions, based on the extrapolation of pre-2019 trends. The ESC believes that this is largely due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49423"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49481,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49423\/revisions\/49481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}