question about RAD exams?

hi everyone! hoping to have a question answered asap by anybody who has perhaps any teaching or examining experience or knowledge of the RAD exam board :)

TLDR; - (this paragraph is the important bit, the rest is background info to my situation)

can anybody tell me if teachers need to put their students names forward to take the exam a whole term in advance? ie. in order to take the exam at the end of this term in december, would a teacher already have to put forwards the names of the students being put forwards now? and if it is the case that the names have to go forwards a precise period in advance can anybody let me know what that time period is and if there is any way that it is possible to still take the exam if your name is not put forwards straight away at the beginning of the term?

the rest of this post is just the background to my situation / me asking this

to put my question into context - i’m currently in intermediate, hoping to do my exam this term! i’ve been very excited at the possibility of taking the exam at the end of the term, my teacher already announced the provisional exam dates for this term are in december and i though i could definitely be exam ready by then, given that im already pretty confident with most of the content having only joined the grade in the second half of last term. { i was still taking ballet classes twice weekly before this, but they were non syllabus advanced russian classes at another studio, i still go to these once a week, since one of my extra classes i take because i want to to the intermediate exam clashes with the other. i also took all of my childhood grades up until 14/15 under RAD, i was in intermediate foundation, then stopped dancing until january of this year when i was 18 and started taking the russian class. in april i resumed my RAD classes and now im 19. so whilst i may have joined this class recently ive been dancing again all year and i wouldnt say im still rusty like i was at the start}

my worry is that my teacher isn’t seriously considering me for the exam because i only joined recently, even though i know i could be ready by the time of the exam if she invests in coaching me for it. it didnt occur to me until i heard some of the girls from the class before me today talking about how they think they are in the same exam group, which made me wonder if they had already been finalised, since there was no mention of exams in my classes this week. i have one more class this week tomorrow so im worried that if she hasn’t been considering me for it and it needs to be decided now that i won’t be able to change her mind in time, and that even if i progress throughout the term that by then it may be too late to put me forwards for the exam :(

i dont know if this is really how it works or if im overthinking it because its so important to me, but i would be so devastated if i couldn’t take the exam this term, because even if im not fully there yet i know that i could be and i was so excited to get to take class every week day and work towards this for this term :( it also may be my last year at home, and next term is our spring show, so no exams, so if i couldn’t take it now i may never get to move up to advanced foundation before leaving home. i’ve been eager to complete advanced 1 and 2 in the next coming years, this is all i really have in the way of goals and how i occupy my time, and i already feel so behind as a 19 year old returning to ballet so it means a lot to me. if anyone can give me any insight that may be beneficial to my situation i would be so grateful to know whether or not there is a deadline to be out forwards for this kind of thing. thank you!