What they actually ask
80 open questions from real assessment competency frameworks, free and with no account. Under each one: what the assessor is listening for, and the shape of a strong answer built from your own experience.
RICS APC: Quantity Surveying & Construction
Quantity Surveying & Construction: the mandatory competencies the chair owns, and the technical ones the assessors probe to your declared level.
10 competencies · 80 questions
- Ethics and Rules of ConductEthics, Rules of Conduct & professionalism8 questions
- Client care8 questions
- Accounting principles and business planningAccounting principles & procedures8 questions
- Data management8 questions
- Quantification and costing (measurement)Quantification & costing of construction works (measurement)8 questions
- Procurement and tenderingProcurement & tendering8 questions
- Contract practice8 questions
- Design economics and cost planningDesign economics & cost planning8 questions
- Commercial management and cost controlCommercial management of construction works8 questions
- Risk management8 questions
How to use this
Reading a question is not the same as being able to answer it out loud, under a follow-up, with an assessor waiting. Work down a page and say your answer aloud before you read what it should cover. The gap between the two is your revision list.
Nothing here is a script. Every answer has to be built from work you actually did, in your words, and an answer that sounds memorised is the thing assessors are trained to notice.
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