Assessment Preparation

How your Level 4 qualification is assessed.

Overview

Check Your Understanding

Templates

KSB Tracker

Check your understanding

A few quick questions on what you've just read on the Overview page. Pick an answer for each, then check how you did. Nothing is recorded anywhere but your own browser.

1. Your Level 4 certification is made up of which two things?

The Project Report and the Flexible Assessment

A written exam and a practical test

A dissertation and a job interview

Your workbooks and a final exam

2. About how long is the Project Report?

There is no set length

Around 2,500 words

Around 10,000 words

Around 500 words

3. What must your Project Report be based on?

A summary of an AI news article

Someone else's published case study

A real AI or automation solution you've designed, built and tested at work

A hypothetical project you plan but never build

4. For the Flexible Assessment, how many of the four formats do you complete?

All four

Whichever one your assessor picks for you

Any two of the four

Just one — you choose which

5. Which of these is NOT one of the Flexible Assessment options?

A written exam

Professional discussion

Portfolio

Presentation

6. Can the same underlying project be used to evidence both the Project Report and the Flexible Assessment?

Only if your assessor agrees in advance

Only when you choose the Portfolio format

No — each must be based on a completely separate project

Yes — reusing the same work across both is encouraged, as long as it fits each one's outcomes

7. Your Project Report is assessed against which Assessment Outcomes?

AO5 and AO6

AO2 and AO3

All six outcomes

AO1 and AO4

8. To achieve your qualification, how many of the six Assessment Outcomes must you pass, and how much of the KSBs should you evidence?

Pass all six outcomes, and aim to evidence every KSB across your assessment

Pass at least one outcome, and evidence half of the KSBs

Pass three outcomes, and KSBs don't need evidencing

Pass any four outcomes, and evidence only the mandatory KSBs

9. What does a ★ (mandatory) KSB mean?

It's the only kind of KSB you need to evidence

It only matters if you're going for a Distinction

It must be assessed in every version of the assessment that's made available

It only appears in Module 1

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