Candidate Diary Demonstration

The assessment element of the APC Programme is just as important as filling in your diary itself. This section of the myAPCDiary helps you prepare all of the relevant documentation for your assessment. The first step in your preparation is to understand what documentation you require. Here is a quick breakdown:

Assessment application form

Candidates must apply to sit their assessment. They must also select a number of potential locations that they are happy to travel to in order to sit their assessment, as there are several assessment centres across the UK and Ireland. This form needs to be submitted to the RICS well in advance of your actual desired assessment date. Please note that assessment sittings occur twice a year. There are also specific dates for each Pathway too.

  • Click here to download your specific application form.
  • Click here to see the latest RICS timetable of assessments.

RICS APC template

We have taken the hassle out of populating the RICS templates. All of the information from the myAPCDiary will be populated directly into your specific Pathway's APC template. Here is a list of the templates that you will need to know about and will be able to export from the Publish area.

Template 1 – Candidate Declaration

This sheet of the template requires some additional details before it is exportable form the Publish page. Please complete the details below in order to export Template 1.

  • Is this your first attempt? Or have you failed previous assessments? Please select the relevant attempt.

  • Which session would you like to apply for?

  • Have you been referred for special consideration by the RICS?

  • This is the date in which you produced your Case Study.

Template 2 – Candidate Checklist

This is a quick summary of the information that your APC template will contain. You will need to fill out all of the boxes above to be able to export this sheet from the Publish page.

Template 3 – Achievement Record

This sheet contains all of the hours you have recorded against each competency and level. It will also show the exact dates that you have been signed off per competency. This sheet will break down your hours and sign off achievements by year.

Template 4 – Development Record

Here a complete list of your Professional Development hours will be recorded.

Template 5 – EEPM Record

This sheet will list all of your education, employment, and professional membership records.

Template 6 – Experience Record

All of your experience records that you have logged against each of your signed off competency levels will be listed in order here.

Template 7 – Referral Deficiency Report

This sheet will become available if this is not your first attempt at the APC assessment (the details of which can be changed from the options above in Template 1).

Template 8 – PD Deficiency Record

If you have been referred, it is likely that you will be asked to record more hours of Professional Development. This template will allow you to record those hours accordingly. Please note - you will need to record this manually as like Template 7.

Referral Report

This is something that is not printable from our system, however it is a critical document that you will need for your assessment if you have been referred.

Diary

Although the Diary entries are not compulsorily required for assessment submissions, it is likely that you will be asked to produce your diary entries. You will be able to export all of your diary entries easily from the Publish page in a clean and presentable manner.

Case Study

The critical analysis is a written report (maximum 3,000 words) that analyses a single project that you have worked on. This project should be something that you have had significant involvement in through your training period. Details of what the report should contain can be found on the Critical Analysis page. You will be able to enter your report in the Critical Analysis page.