Free Casper Practice Test (2026): Full 11-Scenario Simulator

About This Casper Practice Test

This free Casper practice test runs the full shape of the real assessment: 11 scenarios and 22 practice questions, 4 video-response and 7 typed-response, on the same clock Acuity Insights uses. You get 1 minute per video question and 3.5 minutes for each typed pair, and the scenarios are spread across the 9 aspects Casper actually rates: collaboration, communication, empathy, fairness, ethics, motivation, problem solving, resilience and self-awareness.

The video-response section comes first, exactly as it does on test day, then the seven typed-response scenarios, with the optional breaks in the right places.

Everything here is original. Acuity Insights owns and copyrights the real scenarios, so what you get instead are dilemmas written to the same blueprint: no clinical knowledge required, no clean right answer, and a deliberate spread across personal, workplace, academic-integrity, healthcare-adjacent, and social situations.

Every scenario opens with an optional 30-second reflection period before the response page, the same as the real test. One wording note: where the tags above say "equity" and "professionalism", Acuity's own published list says "fairness" and treats professionalism as part of the thing being measured rather than a separate aspect. The section on the 9 aspects below sets out their list.

Each question returns, in the review screen, a model answer written the way a prepared applicant would actually type it under time pressure, the competencies that question is probing, a checkable rubric, and the specific mistakes that sink real applicants on that scenario.

How the Casper Test Actually Works

A lot of Casper advice online still describes a 14-scenario, typed-only test. That version is gone. Here is the current structure for the 2026 to 2027 cycle, taken from the Acuity Insights help centre:

The current 2026 to 2027 structure. Video first, always, with a 10-second countdown before each recording starts.

Total test time is 65 to 85 minutes. Scenarios arrive in one of two formats, a short filmed clip or a block of text, and the format of the scenario does not decide how you answer: the screen tells you whether that response is typed or recorded, and you cannot switch. Speech-to-text tools are not allowed unless they are pre-approved as an accommodation. Australian undergraduate and postgraduate teacher education applicants sit a shorter 8-scenario form, 2 video and 6 typed, at 45 to 65 minutes.

Format and timing confirmed against the Acuity Insights help centre article What is the Casper test format and length?, last updated by Acuity on March 11, 2026, and About Casper. Verified November 1, 2026.

How Casper Is Scored

This is the most misunderstood part of the assessment, and understanding it changes how you prepare.

Every scenario goes to a different trained human rater. Not one rater per test, but a different person for each scenario, and Acuity states that no rater ever scores the same applicant twice. The reason they give is the halo effect: one rater working through your whole test would carry an early impression into everything that followed. Acuity also states plainly that AI is not used to score, rate or evaluate Casper responses, and that your answers are anonymised before rating, so a rater sees your words and nothing else, no name, age or photo.

Each question is scored on its own. This is the part most prep pages get wrong. Both questions inside a scenario go to that one rater, who can see the full scenario context, but the two questions are scored independently. Your test produces 22 question-level ratings, not 11 scenario-level ones. Acuity turns this into direct advice: allow enough time for each question rather than spending it all on the first.

Raters work on a 1 to 9 scale and are not given an answer key. They are told which concepts are central to a scenario and asked to judge the substance of your reasoning. They are explicitly instructed to set aside spelling, grammar and jargon, and Acuity notes that raters know you are writing against a clock and will prioritise your overall point over an unfinished sentence. Raters are based in the same country as the programs that receive the scores, so that local context is read correctly. Note that this is the programs' country, not necessarily yours.

Your individual question ratings are averaged into a raw score on that same 1 to 9 scale. The raw score is then standardised within your own test instance, which converts it into your standing relative to everyone who sat the same test, and that is what participating programs receive. As an applicant, you receive only a quartile, and Acuity confirms that applicants never see the underlying score.

Three consequences follow, and they should shape your prep:

1. Your result is relative, not absolute. You are ranked against the people who sat your test type. There is no score to "hit."
2. A single weak answer is survivable. With 22 independently scored questions, one flat answer moves an average; it does not decide it. Recovering from a bad scenario matters more than perfecting a good one.
3. Consistency beats brilliance. The rater reading scenario nine has never seen scenarios one through eight. Every scenario has to stand on its own.

The rating mechanics above come from Acuity's How is the Casper test scored and evaluated? and Understanding Casper: How Are Casper Tests Rated?, and the 1 to 9 raw score scale is stated in the 2026 Casper Technical Manual, linked in the next section. All read November 1, 2026.

The 9 Aspects Casper Actually Rates

Most Casper prep pages, and most AI answers, say the test measures ten competencies. The 2026 Casper Technical Manual says nine. It describes social intelligence and professionalism as a single construct and names "9 prominent aspects" of it, selected against the competency frameworks published by the AAMC, CanMEDS and AITSL. Professionalism is not one of the nine, because it is half of the thing being measured. The ninth item people usually call equity, Acuity calls fairness.

They are not scored as separate subscores, since you receive one combined result, but they drive scenario writing, question writing, test blueprints and rating, so they tell you what a rater is reading for. The definitions below are Acuity's; the two right-hand columns are ours.

Acuity keeps the detailed behaviours raters look for under each aspect private, for test security, so any page claiming to publish the rating checklist is guessing.

The single most common failure across all nine is hedging. A response that surveys options without committing reads as indecision, not nuance. Pick a position, then defend it.

The Real Constraint Is Words Per Minute

Most applicants do not lose Casper points on ethics. They lose them on throughput.

A typed scenario gives you 210 seconds for two questions, about 105 seconds each, and because the two questions are scored separately there is no credit for spending all of it on the first. Here is what 105 seconds buys you at different typing speeds, assuming you also spend part of that time thinking:

A strong typed answer lands at roughly 90 to 130 words. Below about 60 words you generally cannot name the stakeholders, commit to an action and justify it, which are the three things a rater is reading for. That puts sustained typing in the 55 to 70 wpm range close to a prerequisite, and Acuity says the same thing in its own prep advice: if typing is not a strength, work on typing. Two evenings on it will do more for your quartile than another week of reading about ethical frameworks. Acuity also allows bullet points in typed answers, so if you run short of time, getting your key ideas down beats a half-finished paragraph.

Video is the mirror image. Plan on roughly 120 to 140 words of unhurried speech in a minute and you have room for more content than a typed answer, delivered under worse conditions. There is no backspace, and a 10-second countdown starts the recording for you. The fix is the same: speak your practice answers out loud, at full volume, for the whole minute. Rehearsing silently trains nothing, because the thing that fails on test day is fluency, not reasoning.

A structure that survives both formats, in this order: what is happening → who is affected → what I would do → why → what it costs. That last clause is what separates third quartile from fourth. Anyone can propose an action; showing you know what your action gives up is the evidence of judgement.

What a Practice Run Can and Cannot Tell You About Your Quartile

No practice test produces a Casper quartile. Not this one, and not Acuity's own: their help pages state that practice test responses "are not saved, scored, or reviewed". A quartile only exists once trained raters have scored your 22 questions and the result has been standardised against everyone who sat your test type, and Acuity sends it about 4 to 5 weeks after your test date. Treat any product that offers to predict your quartile with suspicion.

What practice does change is measurable, and Acuity has measured it. The 2026 Casper Technical Manual reports a regression on 233,627 applicants who were surveyed after their tests about how they prepared. Every method shown is a statistically significant effect at p below .001, expressed as its estimated effect on the raw score.

Three things are worth reading carefully here, and the first two are uncomfortable for anyone selling Casper prep.

Not preparing is by far the worst thing you can do. At -0.28 it is a bigger effect than any single preparation method is worth, and close to twice the best of them. A paid third-party course is the only method with a negative estimate. Acuity states separately that it is not affiliated with any third-party Casper preparation tools or courses and does not endorse them. That is the test maker's own position on an industry that sells against its test, and you should weigh it knowing they have an interest in it.

Third, and most useful if you are standing here deciding how to spend an evening: rehearsing with technology scored nearly twice as well as rehearsing without it (+0.13 against +0.07), and studying scenarios against the competencies scored +0.12. That is the case for running timed scenarios in a browser with a real clock rather than reading dilemmas on paper, and it is the one thing this simulator is for.

The honest caveat belongs in the same breath: the model's adjusted R-squared is 0.03. Acuity's own reading is that preparation "will have some positive impact on test performance, but will not dramatically change an individual's score". Preparation moves you a little. It is not the difference between quartiles for most people.

So what does separate the quartiles? On the same quartile page, Acuity names effort, empathy, impartiality, communication and familiarity with the format, and it defines effort concretely: higher-placing applicants explained their position fully and used the full time before moving on. Two of those five, effort and format familiarity, are exactly what a timed practice run trains. The other three are what the rubrics in the review screen are for.

One last thing to keep in proportion. Because a quartile is a cut through a continuous score, an applicant sitting near a boundary can move between quartiles between sittings without anything about them changing. Acuity gives the example of the 74th and 76th percentiles landing in different quartiles. A third-quartile result is not a different kind of performance from a fourth-quartile one, and Acuity is explicit that a first-quartile placement does not mean you failed and should not stop you applying.

How to Use This Simulator

Take the full 11-scenario run first, cold, with no preparation. The point of the first attempt is diagnostic. You want to find out whether your bottleneck is deciding, typing or editing, and you cannot learn that from a scenario you have already thought about.

Then work the review screen honestly. Tick a rubric criterion only if your answer actually did the thing, not if you were thinking it. The gap between "I would have said that" and what is on the page is exactly the gap a rater sees.

After that, use single-scenario mode to drill the specific failures. If your answers are consistently under 70 words, the problem is typing speed. If they are long but hedged, practise committing to a position within the 30-second reflection window before typing a single character. If you go blank in the video section, run the four video scenarios back to back until a minute stops feeling long.

Keep Practicing

Work through our full guide on how to prepare for the Casper test for a week-by-week study plan, the test-day logistics checklist, and the mistakes recent test-takers report most often.

For everything else Casper, including our comparison of paid prep options, start at the Casper hub. If you are weighing a paid course after reading the table above, our independent reviews of BeMo's Casper prep and Casper Booster set out what each one actually includes and what it costs, and the full list sits under Casper prep courses. How we test and score the products we review is set out in our review methodology.

One last thing worth repeating: once you have reserved a Casper sitting, Acuity Insights gives you a free official practice test inside your account, you can take it as many times as you like, and it is the only place you will see the real interface. Use this simulator to build volume and diagnose your pacing, then take theirs to remove any surprise from the software itself.

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