RICS Assessment For Specialists And Professionals

 Are you a specialist or professional who wants to have an RICS assessment for Chartership (MRICS)? If yes, then we have written this blog intending to help you. So, read this whole blog to know well about the assessment system.

Assessment routes:

If your career has made progress based on seniority, specialization or using academia, RICS has three assessment routes to match your experience. All three assessment pathways are below:

Senior assessment: You have 10 years of related work experience (5 years if having a postgraduate degree) and can show advanced responsibilities as a senior leader.

Specialist assessment: You have 10 years of related work experience (5 years if having a postgraduate degree) and can show advanced responsibilities to deliver specialist areas of work.

Academic assessment: You have taken up academic activities related to the profession over three years and have a surveying-related degree.

The above-given are the three RICS assessment routes.

What if you are eligible for a Chartership without assessment?

If you already hold professional qualifications or are a member of another professional organization, you may be exempt from some of RICS’s entry criteria and be eligible for direct entry. However, you need to pass the RICS online ethics course to join using direct entry.

For applying to become Chartered through direct entry, you will be required to have:

·        A proposer who is Chartered (MRICS) or a Fellow (FRICS)

·        A letter from the professional organization confirming your membership

·        A record of your recent CPD

CPD:

CPD or Continuing Professional Development is the systematic updating and improvement of knowledge, skills and capability that comes through work.

CPD must be closely linked to your current work.

CPD can be taken from different types of sources like attending conferences, seminars or conferences, completing an academic course or informal reading.

When you fulfill your specific CPD requirements for the RICS assessment, you need to complete a minimum of 20 hours of CPD activities each year.  

Different parts of the assessment process:

Written submissions

Senior and Specialist assessment:

Personal Statement: Your resume and a 400-word statement

Case studies: Three 1,500-word case studies about projects showing your professional qualities

CPD: 20 hours of training taken on during the last 12 months.

Academic assessment:

Personal statement: your resume and a 3,000-word statement.

Summary of experience: a 5,500-word summary of your experience against competencies given in your chosen sector pathway

Academic proof: 4 pieces of evidence to show your activities as an academic

CPD: 48 hours of training taken up in the last 12 months.

Your counselor will confirm when you are ready for your written submission to be submitted for the RICS assessment.

RICS online ethics training

You need to complete and pass the RICS online ethics course. If you fail this course at the beginning, you can take it again.

60-minute assessment interview:

After a 10-minute presentation by you about your work experience, the panel of trained RICS assessors will ask you questions about your presentation and your chosen competencies.

 

Although we provide you with the necessary information about the RICS assessment pathways for Chartership, we advise you to hire an RICS competency report writing expert to win a positive RICS assessment of professional competence using any of the pathways listed above.