Centres with larger cohorts (e.g. 30+ candidates) wishing to maximise use of their language laboratory facilities and let groups of candidates undertake the Unit 2 listening element separately are free to do so as long as they adhere to the following conditions:

• Each group using the languages laboratory for the listening assessment should be allocated the same time (45 minutes) for the this section of the examination. (Candidates would be free to move on to other sections (reading, writing) of the paper in the language laboratory if they wish).
• All papers should be taken in by the invigilators at the end of the 45 minutes and then redistributed to candidates once they have been escorted to another examination room.
• Candidates should not restart their Unit 2 assessment until instructed to do so. They must then be allocated the remaining time (1 hour 45 mins).
• Candidates should be 'quarantined' to ensure that they cannot talk to each other about the content of any aspect of the unit 2 assessment.
• To facilitate assessment of the listening element, centres are advised that as another alternative to candidates using individual CD listening devices, centres are also able to download secure sound files to MP3 players.