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Assessment/Rules

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If you wish to have a training program counted as a module toward either the Certificate in Governance Practice or the Certificate in Governance and Risk Management, you must pass the online exam for that program. All students seeking assessment, whether registered in the face-to-face or the online mode, will be asked to pass an online exam.

If you are studying individual stand-alone training programs, assessment is optional.

Online exams are taken at the conclusion of the training program and consist of multiple-choice questions. These are automatically marked online. You are immediately advised whether you have passed or failed the exam. The pass mark is 70 per cent. The grades are pass or fail.

It is estimated that it will take you 30–45 minutes to complete each exam online.

You will be entitled to attempt each online exam twice. The questions in your exam will be randomly selected from a bank of multiple-choice questions each time you attempt the exam.

Should you fail the exam on the second attempt and wish to sit it again, you will be required to re-register for the exam, via your academic record page and to pay the exam re-sit fee. This will entitle you to two further attempts at the exam.

Exam time limits

After you have registered in a training program, you will have 21 days to successfully complete the online exam starting on the following dates:

  • the date of the face-to-face class you have selected, if you are studying via the tutorial mode
  • the date you have nominated as your study commencement date, if you are studying via the online mode.

You are strongly advised to ensure when you register that you have the time available to study the materials and to complete the online exam within the 21–day period. Extensions will be granted only in exceptional circumstances and entirely at CSA’s discretion.

Other important information

  • There is no time limit on the completion of the certificate courses. However, each training program has a lifespan of 12 months. A completed training program older than 12 months will not be counted as an eligible program for Certificate graduation. 
  • You will be awarded a graduation certificate on completion of the Certificate qualification and provided with a transcript listing the programs you studied.

Click here for Certificate enrolment information and the transfer process to recognise your study completed so far.

Click here to enrol.