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124 written lessons — 221,025 words — each mapped one-to-one onto an applied knowledge statement in the content outline that took effect on 3 August 2026.

  • One lesson per applied knowledge statement, no padding
  • A worked example in every lesson, set apart from the prose
  • Written to be read in the gaps you actually have
Chapter 1 · Ethical Principles and Responsibilities
Values and Ethics › Chapter 1 › Confidentiality

Confidentiality, privacy and privilege

Three words that get used interchangeably and mean different things. Privacy is the client’s interest in controlling what is known about them. Confidentiality is the duty you owe them throughout the relationship. Privilege is narrower than either: a rule of evidence, belonging to the client, that keeps certain communications out of legal proceedings.

Where candidates slip

Privilege belongs to the client, not to you and not to the agency — so it is the client who can waive it. An item that turns on who may waive is testing exactly this.

PrivacyThe client’s interestConfidentialityYour duty, throughoutPrivilegeA rule of evidence, the client’s to waive
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Practice questions

1,987+ questions with explanations that teach.

70.3% of the bank is a vignette, the same as the exam, and every question comes with the reasoning for all the options rather than a green tick on one of them.

  • Both formats, at roughly even rates: 50.7% three-option, 49.3% four-option
  • Only 32.2% is recall — the rest is application and reasoning
  • Why each wrong option is wrong, not just which
Practice · Assessment Methods and Techniques
Question 7 of 20Qualifier · BEST

A parent tells a social worker that he did not attend the appointment the agency arranged for him. The social worker wants to understand what happened. Which question is the BEST one to ask?

  • AWhy did you not go to the appointment?
  • BWhat got in the way of getting there?
  • CDid you forget about the appointment?
Why B

BEST asks which question opens the conversation rather than closes it. “Why” invites a defence, and a yes/no question hands him a one-word exit. Asking what got in the way treats the absence as a problem to solve together — and the rationale goes on to say why each of the others narrows what he can tell you.

Mock exams

Full-length mocks, timed to the real administration.

12 mocks per category, none of them repeating a question. Each is built the way the administration is: 110 scored items plus 12 pretest, in two sections of 61.

  • 122 questions in two sections of 61, 120 minutes each
  • Flag-for-review plus a navigator panel
  • Score broken down by content area, not just overall
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Q 42 of 180

A sole trader sells his business as a going concern. The buyer later discovers that a valuable customer contract had been cancelled before completion, though neither party was aware. What is the best ground for the buyer’s claim?

  • AMisrepresentation by silence
  • BCommon mistake
  • CFrustration of contract
  • DBreach of implied warranty
  • EUnilateral mistake

The qualifier

The one word that decides the answer.

FIRST, BEST, NEXT, MOST — 69.2% of questions turn on a single capitalised word, and reading past it is how prepared candidates lose marks. We mark it in every stem and say what that particular word is asking for.

  • BEST 23.4% · MOST 22.1% · FIRST 13.8% · NEXT 9.9%
  • Marked in the stem, every time, so the habit forms
  • Each word explained: what it wants and what it rules out
Every stem, every time

Which action should the social worker take FIRST?

FIRST asks

What comes before everything else — not what matters most in the end. Several options here are things you would do; only one of them has to happen before the others can.

  • BESTWhich option is most defensible overall?23.4%
  • MOSTWhich fits the standard most closely?22.1%
  • FIRSTWhat comes before everything else?13.8%
  • NEXTGiven what has happened, what follows?9.9%

Shares are of the whole question bank, measured at build time.

Analytics

Spot the topics pulling your score down.

Every answer feeds a live dashboard: accuracy by content area against the weight that area carries on your exam, and the two or three chapters worth the next week of your time.

  • Accuracy by content area and by chapter
  • A weak-area queue built from your own answers
  • No streaks — studying around a job should not be punished
Progress · last 30 days
Overall accuracy
68%+4 this week
Ethical Principles82% · 340 Qs
Ethical Service Delivery76% · 410 Qs
Diversity and Social Justice71% · 220 Qs
Assessment Concepts64% · 180 Qs
Assessment Methods58% · 165 Qs
Intervention Methods49% · 140 Qs
Supervision and Administration42% · 88 Qs

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