How We Are Supporting You

CEM provides baseline assessments of cognitive ability (vocabulary, maths and non-verbal), which give a standardised benchmark of ability, grade forecasts of future performance, and cohort level analysis. They take a total of around 50 minutes to complete and are not subject-specific.

Is it compulsory to take an assessment for each of the subjects a candidate has been registered for?

CEM assessments are baseline assessments of cognitive ability (vocabulary, maths and non-verbal), which are used to form predictions of future performance. They are not subject-specific.

Most of the questions are multiple-choice in format with some open questions.

In order to maintain the fairness of our assessments, we do not provide any practice materials (including practice or past papers), and do not endorse any other commercially available resources or tuition services. The assessments are designed to measure a wide range of verbal, non-verbal and mathematical skills. They do not require any tutoring or practice.

No. CEM assessments test cognitive ability (vocabulary, maths and non-verbal) and are not subject-specific. There are no sample papers as all assessments are online and are adaptive to the students’ ability, so you get a more accurate indication of ability rather than prior knowledge.

No preparation is required as CEM assessments measure ability and aptitude for learning rather than prior knowledge.

No, the assessments are not subject-specific. They predict later academic outcomes based on cognitive ability.

CEM assessments do include an extra time option (25%) for those students that qualify for extra time, in addition the school should provide whatever support they would normally give to facilitate assessment of the learner.

CEM assessments are delivered online via a browser and accessed using a password specific to the student. They can be accessed by students in their homes using any browser-enabled device. The assessments typically take 50 minutes.

Any internet connected device with a browser. Find the full technical requirements on our website.

Low stakes mean the assessments do not award grades, but simply provide further information for schools to make better informed decisions.

Yes.

Yes, the link will be provided by the school via email.

The assessments will time out 60 minutes after starting. When restarted, they will begin at the start of the module (vocab, maths or non-verbal) that was not completed.

All CEM assessments now run using html5. We do not recommend iPads or other mobile devices as we are still exploring this option for our assessments.

You can create an Excel spreadsheet and save the spreadsheet as a CSV Comma Delimited File. You can do this by selecting ‘save as’ and choosing CSV from the file format below the file name. Then press save. You will see the document is saved as FILENAME.csv

The reports from the assessments help you understand learner and cohort strengths and weaknesses. Predictions and chances graphs show expected results in each subject as well as how each student is likely to perform in their exams.

Yes, they can form part of the body of evidence.

Only the school will have access to the results and can decide whether to use them as part of the portfolio of evidence.