The Southern Examining Group (SEG) was an examination board offering GCSEs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland formally established in 1987.

In 1994, it was taken over by the Associated Examining Board, but kept its own identity until the AEB merged with NEAB to form AQA in 2000.

In the 1970s, the UK's Department for Education and Science became increasingly committed to replacing GCE O Level and CSE exams with a single exam (later named the GCSE), which it wished to be administered by regional consortia of existing O Level and CSE exam boards.

Therefore, the examination boards of southern England formed a joint working group in 1978.

Its members were:[2] As the GCSE was intended to replace the CSE, the three CSE boards in the group – the South-East, Southern and South Western boards – would not offer any qualifications outside the group (unlike the GCE boards – the AEB and Oxford Delegacy – who would still offer A Levels independently).