World leaders in
digital assessment

Surpass is a best-in-class solution for all of your assessment needs. With award-winning item banking, test construction, and test delivery services, we enable organisations of all sizes to grow their testing programmes, and will give you complete confidence in your assessment solution.

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Trusted by awarding and certification providers across the world

NCFE (Northern Council for Further Education)

ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)

Discover assistive, responsible AI with Surpass Copilot

Learn how Surpass is using new AI-feature set, Copilot, to revolutionize the item authoring process, helping you create better test questions, faster, for less cost!

Improving the assessment
experience for everyone

With 40 years in the industry, we work closely with our customers and the Surpass Community to achieve our mission of improving the assessment experience for everyone, and enabling all learners to achieve their full educational potential.

About us Why choose Surpass?

Innovative and flexible end-to-end assessment solutions

Discover the power of Surpass technology and services by customising your setup and seamlessly integrating any existing technology or partners into our flexible end-to-end assessment solution.

Award-winning item banking and authoring technology

From versatile item types to time-saving Subject Matter Expert (SME) management tools, Surpass has everything you need to be in control of your items, regardless of who writes items or assembles your test forms.

Streamline item writing & reviews with your SMEs
Utilise item version compare and item auditing
Easily import and export items
Ready-to-use advanced item types
Create unique items and functionality with Customisable Question Types
Assistive AI content generation with Surpass Copilot

Item Banking & Authoring

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Test development services to help you achieve your testing mission

As your test development partner, we will work alongside your team and can provide psychometric experts to help you build tests that measure the right knowledge, skills and abilities, and that yield valid, reliable, and fair results.

Choose from an array of test settings and options to fit to the specific needs of your exam programme and deliver using fixed or adaptive forms, including LOFT (Linear On the Fly Testing) capability. This allows you to adapt a test to each candidate’s ability in real-time to get the most accurate results data and maximise the potential of your item bank.

Test Development Services

Flexible test delivery options to securely deliver your exams anywhere

With millions of exams delivered through our internet-resilient test driver each year, Surpass offers a secure and scalable solution to support large-scale, high-stakes test delivery on any device. With intuitive ‘author once – deliver to many’ functionality, you can deliver the same item through multiple methods.

You can use the Surpass test driver with our global test centre network for session-based and on-demand testing, plus innovative remote invigilation solutions, to give you the flexibility to expand your candidate reach.

Test Delivery Services

Secure Test Driver

Deliver your exam programme securely and reliably anywhere in the world, on any device, through our secure, internet-resilient test driver.

Test Centre Network

Deliver with confidence in our secure, global Test Centre Network for session-based and on-demand testing.

Remote Invigilation

Allow your students to sit their exams securely from their home or workplace, with flexible remote invigilation options including live and ‘record and review’ tools.

Marking

Choose from automated marking and re-marking, or choose manual marking with built-in quality controls, and easily share detailed reports with candidates.

Item Analysis

Access automated in-depth psychometric data about your items and tests, or extract raw data, helping you to ensure your tests are reliable and valid.

Results and Certification

Candidates’ results are automatically calculated and available instantly to you or your customers, or can be sent via APIs to your preferred Certification Management solution.

Trusted by awarding and certification providers across the world

40 million+ exams
delivered through the Surpass Platform

140+ countries
have delivered Surpass assessments

40,000+ Test Centres
registered in Surpass

2 million+ candidates
registered in Surpass at any time

“A key factor in our selection of Surpass was how clean and simple the authoring environment is. Our Clinicians, who produce our question items, do not have time to learn a complex IT process, but we knew we could just give them access to the tool and they would have no problems creating questions.”
RCPCH (Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health)

“[Surpass] are flexible and sensitive to end user needs; they have developed a unique assessment tool in the Advanced Question Type, combining the functionality of word-processing and computational aspects of spread sheeting. They work hard to meet the customer's suggested improvements and changes and can be relied upon to work with both customer and end-user feedback to improve the product.”
ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)

“People trust in the City and Guilds brand. A lot of people see City and Guilds as the stamp of approval for a level of training. We’re obviously very keen to make sure that all the products we work with, all the people who work with it, and what we deliver to our centres has got that level of quality with it.”
City & Guilds

“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 (Welsh Joint Education Committee)

“This agreement between SQA and [Surpass] demonstrates our continuing commitment to the use of the latest technologies for the development and delivery of on-screen and paper-based assessments for our entire provision of assessments.”
SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority)