Classic versus adaptive
| Classic | Adaptive | |
|---|---|---|
| Questions | 30 | 12 to 40 |
| Total time | 40 minutes | 12 minutes |
| Time per question | none, one clock for the form | 60 seconds |
| Answer options | 6 | 6 |
| Difficulty | fixed order | moves with your answers |
How a sitting starts
You take it in a browser, at home or at the employer’s premises, from a link in the invitation. Before the scored questions there is a short warm-up of example questions that do not count. Use it to settle: check the screen size, find where the options sit, and get the feel of a 3x3 grid before anything is on the clock. Treat the examples as a warm-up, not as a signal about how hard the real questions will be.
Then the clock starts. On the classic form you can pace yourself across the whole test; on the adaptive form the minute per question is the pace, and an unanswered question when the minute runs out is simply gone. Either way, there is no going back to change an answer once you have moved on, so the habit this course trains, decide the rule before you look at the options, is the habit that saves time.
The table’s figures come from the site’s verification programme and Assessio’s product documentation. The warm-up is how candidates describe the start of a sitting; the publisher does not document it, so expect the detail to vary by employer.