Content policy

The line we hold

Official examination material is confidential, and it belongs to the organisations that create it. We do not have it, we do not want it, and we would not use it if it were offered. Everything in the Asessly question bank is written by us, or licensed to us in writing.

What we do use is public information: the descriptions organisations publish themselves about what their assessments cover, what skills they test, and how candidates should prepare. That information tells us what to teach. It never tells us what to copy, and every assessment page on Asessly lists its public sources and the date we last checked them, so you can see the difference for yourself.

How a question comes into existence

Every question in the bank passes through the same five-step workflow, and no step can be skipped.

1. Research. We identify the assessment, the competency, the skill and the question type. A concept exists only once we can say precisely what it teaches.
2. Expert authoring. A named subject-matter expert writes the canonical question: the reasoning, the correct answer, the explanation, and why each wrong option is tempting.
3. Original variations. AI may produce variations of an approved concept, changing surface detail while testing the same underlying skill. AI is never asked to reproduce, recall or approximate an official question, and it is never given official material because we do not have any.
4. Automated validation. Every generated item is checked for answer correctness, arithmetic accuracy, duplicate or near-duplicate content, option quality, difficulty calibration and skill classification. Failures never reach a reviewer.
5. Human review. A named reviewer approves or rejects. No AI-generated question becomes live content automatically: ever. Questions move Draft → AI Generated → Expert Review → Approved → Published, and only Approved questions can be published.

What we record about every question

Source, licensing status, author, reviewer, review date, version and a complete audit trail of every status change. If a question is ever disputed, we can say who wrote it, who approved it, when, and what it was based on, and we can archive it immediately.

Licensed content

Our architecture supports content licensed from assessment providers, training organisations, subject-matter experts, publishers and institutions. Licensed content carries its licence status, holder, term and permitted use in the content management system, and content whose licence has lapsed cannot be published.

What a readiness score is not

A readiness score is an Asessly preparation metric. It measures how your preparation is going. It is not a prediction of an official result, it is not a pass probability, and we will not describe it as one unless we have validated evidence to support that, which we do not currently have, and would say so if we did.

Independence

Asessly is an independent preparation platform. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by any organisation responsible for an official assessment unless we explicitly state otherwise on the relevant pathway. The disclaimer that applies in each market is set out below.