RICS Ethics Test study guide
RICS Ethics Test · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The RICS Ethics Test is the ethics component of the assessment pathway run by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the globally recognised professional body whose stated aim is to effect positive change in the built and natural environments. RICS describes itself as developing and enforcing leading international standards, protecting consumers and businesses by ensuring professionalism across the built and natural environment, with its regulatory functions relating to standards and professional development led and overseen by the Standards and Regulation Board (SRB). Candidates typically encounter ethics within RICS candidate assessment and professional development, and the subject matter is directly relevant to anyone working toward or maintaining professional status. This independent study page covers three areas: rules of conduct; professional and ethical standards; and reporting concerns and regulatory compliance. Topics on this exam: Rules of conduct, Professional and ethical standards, and Reporting concerns and regulatory compliance. The RICS Ethics Test study guide has 3 sections and about 1,144 words.
01Rules of Conduct: applying the five mandatory rules
The Rules of Conduct domain tests whether you can apply the five rules that bind RICS members and firms to realistic instructions. Questions often place you under pressure from a client, employer or colleague and ask what the rules require, not what is commercially convenient.
405 words, about 2 min02Professional and ethical standards: judgement, objectivity and conflicts
Professional and ethical standards focuses on how you exercise judgement before a situation becomes a conduct breach. It tests objectivity, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, gifts and hospitality, fair treatment and the reasonable bystander test.
387 words, about 2 min03Reporting concerns and regulatory compliance: escalation and notification
This domain tests reporting duties and regulatory compliance: internal escalation, whistleblowing, notifying RICS, cooperating with investigations, CPD, professional indemnity insurance (PII), complaints handling and record keeping. The exam asks what you must report, to whom, and when.
352 words, about 2 min