Surpass pre-release webinar for 24.3
The Surpass team explain the new features and updates in the 24.3 release.
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The Surpass Platform is a professional and market-leading end-to-end assessment platform.
Trusted by the world’s most respected awarding organisations, test publishers, institutions, and national government bodies, Surpass allows you to efficiently create and validate tests ready for secure delivery across multiple platforms.
Surpass is used for the authoring of items, item banking, test administration, test delivery, and reporting of computer and paper-based tests. It is the first choice for organisations that need a dependable solution for high-stakes formative and summative testing, with the support of a dedicated and experienced customer service team. You can also combine the Surpass platform with our range of Test Development and Test Delivery services.
Find out why organisations across a range of industries choose Surpass for their assessment programme.
New to the assessment industry, or trying to make sense of new terms and technologies? Read our list of Frequently Asked Questions.
End-to-End Software
Recent Feature Updates
Item Banking & Authoring
Item authoring has never been easier. Surpass streamlines processes, regardless of the size and location of your Subject Matter Expert (SME) team. Surpass provides an impressive range of item types, which are all intuitive to set up with the ability to configure test presentations to your brand specifications. Stay in control of your item bank and items, regardless of who writes items or assembles your test forms.
Streamlined Item Authoring
Keep your SMEs organised and productive with item authoring, standard setting and review tasks in Surpass. Minimal training and increased security means happy Subject Matter Experts.
Configurable workflow
Surpass can be tailored to support your team’s workflow with assignable roles and permissions for item access and editing, giving you complete control of the whole authoring process.
Easy item import and export
Surpass supports multiple approaches to adding and sharing items, including industry standard CSV, QTI, and API methods.
Media-rich content
Our diagram creation tool and award-winning High-Fidelity Image Viewer allow you to make the most of digital testing with rich audiovisual media. Create comprehensive exam content with images, videos, audio, source files, simulations, and case studies for an enhanced digital testing experience.
Assistive AI content generation
With the power of assistive AI, you can generate high-quality distractors and the rationale for each one at the click of a button using Surpass Copilot.
Ready-to-use advanced item types
A wide range of standard and advanced items are available to use within Surpass, from Multiple Choice questions to more sophisticated item types such as Audio Capture, Hotspot, and File Attach.
Customisable Question Types (CQTs)
You can rapidly develop bespoke items using the CQT Framework within Surpass. Collaborate with our specialist team for quick creation of interactive question types tailored to your needs.
Clean and focused content presentation
Surpass provides a flexible approach to content presentation, including options to brand tests, control the layout of the candidate experience, and group items into sets.
Need help identifying which skills to test, and the best way to test them?
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Test Creation
Trusted by the world’s most respected awarding organisations, test publishers, institutions, and national government bodies, Surpass allows you to efficiently create and validate tests ready for secure delivery across multiple platforms.
Built on blueprint specifications
Surpass provides the tools to generate tests with the requirements found from your task analysis.
Configurable metadata
With a comprehensive range of metadata types and options for filtering and updating a large number of items, Surpass enables assembly for a data-rich item bank structure.
Fixed, random & adaptive form testing
Whether you’re taking a traditional fixed form approach, randomising test content or want to create a truly personalised experience with adaptive testing, Surpass helps you assemble the right test with ease.
Looking to convert your existing paper-based exam for computer-based delivery?
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Secure Multi-Device & Paper Test Delivery
Deliver your exams through our secure, internet-resilient test driver on any device. With intuitive ‘author once – deliver to many’ functionality, you can deliver the same item through multiple methods.
Author once, deliver multiple times on any device
Make the most of every testing opportunity by creating items once and delivering them using a variety of methods, including desktop, laptop, tablet, BYOD (bring your own device), and paper.
Scalable to your requirements
With millions of exams delivered through our test driver each year, Surpass offers a scalable solution to support high-volume test delivery.
Multiple language support
The Surpass test driver can deliver exams in over 50 languages, allowing problem-free authoring and delivery of tests for national and international assessment programmes.
Continue testing, even without a stable internet connection
With robust offline delivery options, our secure browser technology overcomes the instabilities of internet connectivity regardless of the testing location.
Secure lock-down environment
Protect your items and block access to blacklisted third-party applications by locking down delivery with encryption and additional security features on both center and BYOD devices.
Accessibility for your candidates
The Surpass test driver technology adheres to accessibility standards, ensuring fairness and inclusivity for people with disabilities, and a highly usable experience for all your candidates.
Adaptive and Personalised Testing
Surpass contains innovative technology to help you get the most from every item you create, ensuring the best possible ROI. Whether that’s maximising the potential of your item bank or adapting a test to each candidate’s ability in real-time to get the most accurate results data.
Adaptive delivery
For when you need a holistic view of an individual’s ability, not just a pass/fail, the technology behind Surpass Computer Adaptive Testing is perfect for providing personalized performance data for all candidates, not just those in the middle range.
LOFT delivery
Deliver using fixed forms or the Surpass LOFT (Linear On the Fly Testing) capability, which automatically minimises the exposure of items across your item bank and ensures that no items are used too often.
Optimised form generation
How do you know that every item in your question bank is being used to its full potential, while maintaining test fairness and security? Advanced Linear Optimisation technology built into the Surpass user interface allows you to easily analyse and create optimised test forms.
Discover how Surpass is pioneering Computer Adaptive Testing to improve a national testing programme.
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Marking and Feedback
Whether your organisation requires onscreen human marking or wants to automate scoring, smart marking tools in Surpass can accommodate your needs. You can also easily manage candidate results in Surpass, including the production of thorough results reports.
Automatically award marks to candidates
Surpass supports the marking of candidate responses via automatic computer-based marking or tools for the on-screen marking of open responses.
Detailed feedback and reporting
You can choose to provide a range of feedback types, either as candidate feedback or within comprehensive assessment reports.
Psychometric Reporting
Surpass provides you with all the psychometric data and tools you need to have the confidence that the tests you’re delivering are reliable and valid. In addition to in-product functionality, we can give you access to expert psychometricians who can help validate your processes and get the most from the data available.
Data analytics and reporting
Surpass provides a range of psychometric reports and item statistics including Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT) to help you ensure all tests are reliable, fair, and cost-effective.
Statistics to monitor validity
Surpass provides raw data plus a range of automated reports at the click of a button, essential for ensuring the validity of any assessment programme.
Let our experts help you analyse the data, to give you extra confidence in the validity of your tests.
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Integration & QTI
Modern API (Application Program Interface) integration is central to every professional IT solution. The extensive range of API resources in Surpass improve data synchronisation and significantly reduce the risk of human error.
Accommodate for one master system
Surpass features a range of modern integration methods, connecting assessment tools to multiple services and data sources as part of a business-wide system.
Reduce manual input with bulk migration
Many customers migrate their data to Surpass using the range of purpose-built tools and services in the system, making this task efficient and accurate.
Extract important results and item data
Surpass provides a range of data analysis tools with additional API options to connect to other third-party services.
Need to integrate even further to meet your specific requirements?
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