Project Submission and Questioning

Once you are reaching the end of your 9 week work-based project you should start putting together your evidence and preparing for the project quesioning interview.

Project Submission

You should use the 9th week of the work-based project to gather and submit your project evidence to BCS. This evidence should include:

  • the Declaration Form, which we’ll send to you a few weeks before
    • This includes an updated KSB mapping, and a log of how much time you have spent on your project for each of the 9 weeks
    • This will need to be signed by you, your manager (on behalf of your employer) and a trainer (on behalf of Corndel)
  • Your project report (as specified in the Reading – Work-based Project file)

We have an example evidence pack to give you an idea of what you need to put together. Feel free to include more detail than our example pack if you have time; the more evidence you can include, the less has to ride on the Practical Assessment itself.

Submission process

We’ll send you more details and confirm your submission deadline closer to the time, but here is an overview of the submission process:

  • Fill in your Declaration Form and send it to the trainers and your manager approximately one week before your submission deadline, in order to give us time to sign and return it
  • Optionally, send your project to the trainers for review. We cannot provide technical feedback, but can do a high-level review to check you haven’t missed anything.
  • Finally, on or before your submission deadline, zip up your submission, including all the components above, and email it to epateam@bcs.uk.

Once you have submitted your evidence, BCS will schedule your Practical Assessment for two or more weeks. If there are any days you will not be available, note them in the relevant box on the Declaration Form.

Project Questioning

The project questioning is a one hour remote interview. You will be asked questions about your work-based project. The assessor will ask at least twelve questions, but can ask you to expand on particular areas in your response. Twelve questions is not very many in a one hour interview, so try and give detailed answers.

General tips

  • Take ownership. Your project might be a team effort, but the assessor wants to hear about your achievements – say “I” not “we” where it’s you doing something.
  • Proactively bring up topics you want to talk about – the assessor has limited questions so don’t wait for them to ask.
  • Demonstrate your wider knowledge; how the roles of others in your organisation fit in, how your project is creating value, etc.

Checklist

  • You have a quiet room, free from distraction and external influence in which to take the assessment
  • You are set up for a video call, including the ability to share your screen and a (physical or virtual) whiteboard if you would like one
  • You have photo ID and your camera is working so you can share it