No study centre anywhere in the world has prior sight of the CIPS exam questions. Like the “secret recipe” for Coca Cola, all assessment questions at CIPS are closely guarded for confidentiality purposes - and rightly so from an assessment integrity perspective. It means that anyone publishing so-called “mock” or practice questions does so with a degree of guesswork in mind.

Good news! CIPS has implemented a manual workaround to overcome the technical difficulties that have been experienced on their IT platform. In short, this means you can continue to book your exams with confidence and we will work with CIPS on their manual workaround to get your exams booked in time for the November exams.

Many CIPS students think the only place to get study resources for CIPS qualifications is directly from CIPS itself. While it has a degree of logic to it, this simply isn’t true - and in fact there are several alternative places where there are far superior, less expensive and better quality learning resources. In this blog, we will explain more!

This is possibly the worst advice that anyone could give you towards your CIPS exams. In this short article, we will explain why this kind of suggestion could spell disaster for your studies and, while well-meaning, why you really should be doing the complete opposite…!

The CIPS Level 4 Diploma in Procurement & Supply is a UK national qualification that has international recognition. As such, it has been designed to comply with the requirements of the UK Government’s qualifications regulator Ofqual so that it has official recognition and standing.

Nobody likes making a fuss, but there are occasions when all of your hard work and commitment to study seems to have fallen flat. Everybody has the right to a ‘fair’ exam assesment - and this principle lies at the heart of all CIPS exams. In this blog we tell you how to deal with things that ‘go wrong’ during your exam, what to do about them and how to appeal.

We get asked this question time and time again by so many people interested in starting their studies for their CIPS professional qualifications. It is not easy for the newcomer to CIPS. There are five “levels” of study each leading to separate qualification, and so it is easy to be confused or tempted to start on the wrong one.

Studying and passing exams for your CIPS professional qualifications can be hard! We know this from our own personal experience, as well as working with hundreds of learners across the world each year. That’s why we’ve developed this blog - to give you hints, tips and helpful stories to support your learning journey. Better than that, why don’t you just get in touch to see if there is anything specific we can do to support your CIPS studies?