Applicants are given a story or scenario and must answer questions designed to evaluate their approach to handling the situation. The questions are open-ended and have no right or wrong answers, so applicants can take their answers in any direction they see fit.
Each Casper scenario assesses the test-taker for one or more aspects of social intelligence and professionalism, including collaboration, communication, empathy, equity, ethics, motivation, problem-solving, professionalism, resilience, and self-awareness.
Today, Acuity Insights collaborates with admissions teams in over 600 higher education programs across Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and beyond. These include medical schools, nursing programs, veterinary schools, teacher’s colleges, and, more recently, MBA programs, law and engineering schools.
Since 2014, 1 million applicants have taken Casper. Last year alone, 150,000 applicants completed the test across 90 live online sessions, with our Raters evaluating over 2 million responses.