RICS APC Ethics study guide

The RICS APC (Assessment of Professional Competence) is the professional assessment route through which candidates work towards becoming chartered surveyors with RICS, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. It is aimed at people who are building a surveying career and who need to demonstrate professional competence before achieving chartered status, and it sits within RICS's broader careers and candidate-support framework alongside resources such as counsellor guidance, assessor guidance and the assessment platform. Because assessment content is organised around professional standards, candidates should expect the ethics and professional-practice elements of the APC to test their understanding of how surveyors are expected to behave, not just their technical knowledge. Preparation is best treated as a structured programme rather than last-minute revision: work through the relevant standards and guidance, build evidence from real project experience with your counsellor, practise explaining your decisions aloud, and rehearse how you would handle ethical dilemmas and conflicts of interest. Topics on this exam: Ethics, professional standards and conduct (draft domain - not enumerated in source) and Professional practice and regulation (draft domain - not enumerated in source). The RICS APC Ethics study guide has 2 sections and about 770 words.