Powering assessment in schools

Your school exams, securely delivered anywhere.

Over the last 20 years, Surpass has been central to the adoption of large-scale, onscreen testing in UK qualifications.

Surpass is used in most FE colleges in the UK, and is used to deliver millions of national testing exams in every school in Scotland and Wales.

Whether you need remote invigilation, test centres or assessment technology, we’ll give you complete confidence in your general qualifications, summative or formative progress testing.

”Surpass has an extremely diverse user base, covering vocational qualification assessment, professional certification, higher education and school assessments from users based worldwide.
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Transform marking through AI-powered assessment

Surpass Scora uses advanced, enterprise-grade AI to automate the marking of practice exams, delivering consistent, examiner-quality results and rich, personalised feedback in minutes rather than weeks.

Designed specifically for high-stakes assessment environments, Scora digitises and marks paper-based scripts, applying calibrated mark schemes with accuracy aligned to human examiners, while keeping teachers fully in control of every result.

As part of the Surpass AI suite, Scora builds on decades of assessment expertise to reduce marking workload, improve consistency and provide actionable insights that help learners progress faster.

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End-to-end assessment software & testing services for schools examinations

Chromebook SecureClient development journey with AQA

In this video, hear from AQA about how they worked with Surpass to develop a Chromebook-compatible SecureClient to expand their onscreen testing capabilities.

AI’s impact on education and work

Hear from Dr Kulvinder Panesar as she explores the future of AI’s evolving impact on education and work, in this video from the Surpass Conference 2025.

Transform learning through assessment

The award-winning Surpass Tutor harnesses enterprise-grade AI to deliver instant, expert-level feedback on real examination questions for professional certification and schools-based testing.

As the latest addition to our AI suite, Surpass Tutor builds on decades of expertise in professional assessment to benefit your learners.

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Find out how personalised assessment could work for you

Want an effective way to assess student progress and better inform teaching? Our case study of a successful national Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) implementation in the UK demonstrates that this type of testing can be introduced, and can have significant benefits over fixed tests, particularly in a formative setting.

Learn how personalised testing in Surpass transformed a national testing programme for primary schoolchildren, with our CAT case study.

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Easy to use

User needs are at the core of Surpass, whether that’s student, teacher or administrator.

Collaborative Item Banking

From versatile item types to time-saving item authoring tools, Surpass has everything you need to be in control of your items.

Multiple assessment types

With Surpass, you’ll be able to deliver and score multiple types of assessment including on-demand practice tests, and formative and summative examinations.

Secure multi-device & paper test delivery

Author just once for online or offline delivery on desktop, laptop, tablet, BYOD or paper.

Marking & feedback

Mark automatically and provide immediate feedback, or utilise on-screen grading with comprehensive results reports.

Online invigilation & Test Centre Network

Deliver secure exams remotely or expand your candidate reach with our global Test Centre Network.

Test Development Service

Use our team of experts as much as you need to confidently build tests that are valid, fair, reliable and defensible.

Test Assembly

Efficiently build and validate simple or complex tests ready for delivery across multiple channels.

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Trusted by national test providers around the world for testing in schools

“The audio capture question type will allow [QS] to open up exciting new models of assessment within a variety of subject areas including languages, music and our extensive portfolio of vocational qualifications. [Surpass'] collaborative design approach has allowed us to contribute in a meaningful way to the project, keeping candidate experience and engagement the focus of what we do.”
Qualifications Scotland

“WJEC have pushed the boundaries of onscreen summative assessment, creating some engaging and innovative question content which has been delivered in high stakes summative assessments.”
WJEC

“Surpass has an extremely diverse user base, covering vocational qualification assessment, professional certification, higher education and school assessments from users based worldwide.”
Alphaplus