Candidates for certification are assessed based on their cumulative experience across the seven competence areas. Candidates must provide some evidence that they have already performed the majority of competences to the standards required, though they don't need to have experience in every individual competence - only enough within each competence area overall.

Table 4. Potential Scoring Outcomes.


Candidates must attend the entire Assessment Event as well as participate in all of the assessment instruments
- such as portfolios, written assessments and interviews as required by each Certification Level. Candidates do not receive scores for these instruments, only the individual competences receive scores, according to the evidence revealed by the use of each instrument. In other words, it doesn't matter if you prove your competence through the portfolio or the interview. The scoring is on evidence provided for the competences through all the instruments.

Each competence is usually allocated a weighting of either 2 or 4 points to reflect overall importance in the full assessment scheme. The exception is for the four main competences under CA7 (Leadership, Ethics and Innovation), which at Levels 2 and 3 are weighted at 8 each to reflect the particular importance of these at these levels. Competences assigned a weight of 4, can be scored from 0-4(including ½ points) while those assigned a weight of 2, can be scored from 0-2. The competences given a weighting of 8 can be scored from
0-8. Again, candidates do not need experience in every competence. The candidate's overall score is based on
the tally of all competence scores.

To receive certification, candidates must score a minimum of 70% overall and at least 60%within each of the
seven competence areas.







































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L 101 Candidates in Group Photo, Tsitsikamma Marine Park, South Africa, 2010.
3. Policies and Procedures