How it works
From pre-seen release to exam day
Case study exams reward applying what you know to one company under time pressure. Everything here is built to practise exactly that.
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Choose your plan
Pick the Operational, Management or Strategic case study and a plan. Your account is set up for that level and the current pre-seen straight away. Or start with one free marked task.
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Open today's plan
Each day the plan picks the task that should help most, based on your weakest areas and how close your exam is.
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Write a timed task
Answer a question set in your pre-seen company, in the role the exam gives you, against the clock you will really face. If CIMA gave you extra time, set the same in Settings and your timer matches it.
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Get marked in minutes, not days
Feedback in about a minute on the four competencies, the skills markers look for, with the points to fix. Feedback is modelled on how case study scripts are assessed.
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Study your improved answer
See your own answer rewritten to the next level up, with the reason for each change, then write it again in your own words.
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Fix it with Dot
Dot pins notes to the sentences that cost you marks. Rewrite one and Dot checks it straight away. Highlight any line of your pre-seen or a lesson to ask Dot about it.
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Track your readiness
Watch your practice readiness against the pass line of 80 build over time, and see where to spend the next hour.
Scaled score · Pass line 80
How case study marking works
- CIMA reports case study results as a scaled score out of 150. The pass mark is 80.
- Markers look for the competencies in CIMA's exam blueprint for your level: technical, business, people and leadership, applied to the pre-seen company and the task set.
- Eighty Marks marks your practice the same way and shows an estimate on the same 0–150 scale, with the pass line at 80, so you can see how far you have to go.
Read the blueprints on the AICPA-CIMA website for the full detail. Eighty Marks's mark is a practice estimate, not a CIMA mark. More in the FAQ
AI marks are a guide to help you improve. They are not CIMA marks and not a prediction of your result.
Try it on one task
One task in your pre-seen, marked and rewritten to the next level up. Free, and no card needed.