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<div style="background:#eef3fb;color:#303846;border:1px solid #c9d7ee;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 18px;margin:0 0 18px"><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6"><strong style="color:#171d29">Checked 27 October 2026.</strong> Format from Acuity's 2026-2027 pages, read 21 Oct 2026. Dates and fees are from the Dates and Fees page, read 24 Oct 2026 for U.S. Medicine and Canada Medicine - Undergraduate (English) and again on 27 Oct 2026 for every North American test type. Dates and fees can change: check the Dates and Fees page and your Acuity account before booking.</p></div>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Casper is the open-response situational judgment test that many programs, from medicine and nursing to teacher education, ask applicants to take. It is run by <strong>Acuity Insights</strong>; Acuity writes the name as "Casper". This guide sets out the 2026-27 format as Acuity publishes it, the remaining test dates listed on 27 October 2026, including the January-February 2027 dates, what the test costs, and the deadline rule that decides which date you can use.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Acuity's Help Centre describes the test for the 2026-2027 admission cycle as <em>"11 scenarios in this order"</em>: four video-response scenarios, then seven typed-response scenarios. Every scenario has two questions. In the video section the two questions come one at a time and you record a one-minute answer to each. In the typed section both questions appear on one page and you have 3.5 minutes in total for the pair.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Two details change how the minutes feel. First, after each scenario there is an <em>"optional 30-second reflection period"</em> before the response page. Second, for video-based scenarios Acuity lists a 10-second countdown before recording begins, with the role you were given ("you are a friend", "you are a co-worker") shown again at the top of the screen during it.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">A scenario can be presented in two ways. A <strong>video-based</strong> scenario plays a short clip and then asks how you would respond. A <strong>word-based</strong> scenario is a written question, statement or scenario; Acuity's own public example is a prompt to <em>"Think of a time when you had to make a sacrifice in order to accomplish a goal."</em> Whichever way a scenario is shown, you answer it in the response method the screen asks for, video or typed.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Acuity notes that the format <em>"may vary slightly for select programs"</em>. The one it names is Australian teacher education, where the 2026-27 test is 8 scenarios (2 video, 6 typed) with an estimated test time of 45-65 minutes. Unless your program says otherwise, expect the 11-scenario test.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">You book a specific <strong>test type</strong>, and it depends on where the program is and what kind of program it is. In the 2026-2027 Dates and Fees data, U.S. allopathic and osteopathic medicine use a test type called "Medicine", pharmacy and physician assistant programs use "United States Casper 2", undergraduate nursing uses "United States Casper 1", and Canadian undergraduate medicine uses "Casper 2". McMaster's admissions page names its test <em>"Casper 2 (CSP-10211)"</em>.</p>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Three booking rules to check before you reserve</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Test types are not interchangeable. Programs in different countries, languages or program categories can need different test types, so some applicants sit Casper more than once in the same cycle, once per type.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">You can take each test type only once per admissions cycle, Acuity says retakes are considered only in rare technical circumstances, and a score is valid only for one admissions cycle and one test type.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Acuity does not refund a test reserved for the wrong admissions cycle, the wrong program or the wrong language. Its fees are final, non-refundable and not transferable to another admissions cycle.</li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">Acuity Insights "10 Important Things to Know Before Taking Casper" and Help Centre, read 21 Oct 2026.</p></div>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">For Canadian programs there is one more lock: language. You take Casper in the language the program requires, English or French. When you book your first test you choose a distribution language, and Acuity says that choice <em>"cannot be changed for the rest of the admissions cycle"</em>.</p>

Casper test dates left in the 2026-27 cycle

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Each program is attached to particular test dates, and the page lists a <strong>distribution deadline</strong> where one is set: the last day your result can be sent to that program. The Dates and Fees page shows the test type, test dates, distribution deadlines and fees for the programs you search for. We read it on 24 October 2026 for two lists of medicine programs, and again on 27 October 2026 for every North American test type.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">The next wave of sittings runs from 5 January to 23 February 2027. These are the January and February dates on the Dates and Fees page on 27 October 2026, by test type. Times are North American Eastern, as Acuity shows them.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">An 8:00pm Eastern sitting is already the next calendar day in the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia, so the Thursday 7 January and Thursday 21 January English Casper 2 sittings fall on 8 January and 22 January there. They are the same sittings, not extra dates. Read your date in your Acuity account, which shows the time zone.</p>

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<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Five U.S. Medicine test dates remained listed on 27 October 2026. The table shows, for each one, the schools in the Dates and Fees data for which it is the <em>last</em> usable date. So 5 January 2027 is the final chance for five schools, and 9 February 2027 is the last U.S. Medicine date of the cycle.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Some schools in the listing had no date left. For Drexel, Baylor, LSU New Orleans and UT Medical Branch no test date on or after 24 October 2026 was listed. Four more (Hackensack Meridian, University of Nevada Reno, Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine and Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine) had no fee, deadline or remaining test date listed in the data we read; check the Dates and Fees page and the school's own admissions page rather than assume.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">For Canadian undergraduate medicine, no test date on or after 24 October 2026 was listed for McMaster, Queen's, Manitoba and McGill (university applicants). Six dates remained for the medicine programs: 5 Nov 2026 (6:00pm and 8:00pm EST), 29 Nov 2026 (1:00pm EST), 1 Dec 2026, 7 Jan, 21 Jan and 18 Feb 2027 (all 8:00pm EST). In the English Casper 2 listing, 5 November is the last date for Université de Montréal Medicine - Autres Candidats, and 18 February is the last for the CEGEP streams of McGill and the Université de Montréal.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">The English Casper 2 test type also serves many other Canadian programs, such as occupational therapy, physical therapy, pharmacy and physician assistant programs. On 27 October 2026 its listing had three more dates after 18 February: 4 Mar, 8 Apr and 29 Apr 2027 (8:00pm Eastern). Check which of them your own program accepts.</p>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">A program's distribution deadline is not the same as its last test date</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Results reach programs about 2-3 weeks after you test, and each program is linked only to certain test dates.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">UT Southwestern's distribution deadline is 9 Nov 2026, for example, but its last linked test date is 27 Oct 2026.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Plan on the last test date the Dates and Fees page shows for your program, and book earlier than that if you can.</li></ul></div>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Acuity's fee has two parts: <em>"A base testing fee"</em> and a fee for each program your scores are sent to. The amounts sit on the Dates and Fees page and differ by test type. For the two lists above, the 2026-2027 data showed:</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">The examples are our arithmetic from Acuity's figures, in the currency of each test; your own total depends on the programs you add. Rescheduling is free 31 or more days before your test and costs $20 inside 30 days or after the date, unless a waiver applies (for example a verified technical or medical issue). If you cancel instead, Acuity says cancellations are <em>"definitive and non-refundable"</em>.</p>

<figure style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0;margin:18px 0"><figcaption style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">From booking to quartile: the Casper calendar</figcaption><div style="display:flex;gap:14px;align-items:flex-start;margin:0 0 14px"><div style="flex:0 0 14px;margin-top:5px;width:14px;height:14px;border-radius:50%;background:#b7791f"></div><div><div style="font-size:13px;font-weight:700;color:#5b6472">Before you book</div><div style="font-size:15px;color:#171d29;line-height:1.5">Check each program's website for the Casper test type it needs. Test types are not interchangeable, and a test booked for the wrong admissions cycle is not refunded.</div></div></div><div style="display:flex;gap:14px;align-items:flex-start;margin:0 0 14px"><div style="flex:0 0 14px;margin-top:5px;width:14px;height:14px;border-radius:50%;background:#b7791f"></div><div><div style="font-size:13px;font-weight:700;color:#5b6472">At least 3 days before the test</div><div style="font-size:15px;color:#171d29;line-height:1.5">Reserve. Identity verification can take up to 3 business days. It normally takes clear photos of the front and back of a government-issued photo ID in English or French showing your photo, full name and date of birth, plus a live selfie; if you have no such ID, Acuity accepts another form of ID together with a birth certificate (in English or French).</div></div></div><div style="display:flex;gap:14px;align-items:flex-start;margin:0 0 14px"><div style="flex:0 0 14px;margin-top:5px;width:14px;height:14px;border-radius:50%;background:#1f7a45"></div><div><div style="font-size:13px;font-weight:700;color:#5b6472">Test day</div><div style="font-size:15px;color:#171d29;line-height:1.5">Log in 30 minutes early. Once the Start button appears you have 15 minutes to begin.</div></div></div><div style="display:flex;gap:14px;align-items:flex-start;margin:0 0 14px"><div style="flex:0 0 14px;margin-top:5px;width:14px;height:14px;border-radius:50%;background:#1f7a45"></div><div><div style="font-size:13px;font-weight:700;color:#5b6472">About 2-3 weeks later</div><div style="font-size:15px;color:#171d29;line-height:1.5">Results go to the programs on your distribution list.</div></div></div><div style="display:flex;gap:14px;align-items:flex-start;margin:0 0 0px"><div style="flex:0 0 14px;margin-top:5px;width:14px;height:14px;border-radius:50%;background:#1f7a45"></div><div><div style="font-size:13px;font-weight:700;color:#5b6472">About 4-5 weeks later</div><div style="font-size:15px;color:#171d29;line-height:1.5">Acuity emails you when your quartile is ready.</div></div></div><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">From Acuity Insights' Step-by-Step Guide for Test Takers and Help Centre, read 21 Oct 2026. Acuity shows test times in North American Eastern or Australian Eastern time unless indicated otherwise.</p></figure>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Acuity's own advice is to book the earliest date that works. That gives you more flexibility to reschedule if another eligible date is available.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">If no single date serves all your schools, Acuity's Help Centre says to reserve the earliest test that qualifies for at least one of them and add the others to your distribution list later. You can add programs after the test as long as they use the same test type and are still accepting scores; results reach a program added after the first 2-3 weeks within one business day.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Results go automatically to the programs on your distribution list about 2-3 weeks after the test. (CaRMS is the exception Acuity names: it sends the score to CaRMS, and you then upload it to each CaRMS program that needs it.) Your account shows "Completed – Results delivered" once they have gone; there is no email for that step. Usually about 4-5 weeks after the test you get an email saying your <strong>quartile</strong> is ready. That quartile is all you see: programs receive a more detailed score. How the score is built and what a quartile means are in <a href="/hub/casper-test-scoring-quartiles" style="color:#255a45;font-weight:600">how Casper is scored</a>.</p>

<p style="margin:22px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.6">ProSyllabus is an independent study site, not part of or endorsed by Acuity Insights. Every rule, date and fee here is quoted or summarised from Acuity Insights' own pages or, where named, a program's own page.</p>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">More in this series</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/casper-test-scoring-quartiles" style="color:#255a45">How Casper is scored</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/casper-practice-scenarios-strong-answers" style="color:#255a45">Practice: what a strong answer does</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><a href="/hub/casper-test-day-rules-retakes" style="color:#255a45">Test day rules and retakes</a></li></ul></div>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Sources</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://acuityinsights.app/casper/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Acuity Insights: "About Casper" (no date on the page; read 21 Oct 2026): 2 sections and 11 scenarios, about 65-85 minutes, video and typed response timings, human raters</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://intercom.help/acuityinsights/en/articles/4731665-what-is-the-casper-test-format-and-length" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Acuity Help Centre: "What is the Casper test format and length ?" (page dated March 11, 2026; read 21 Oct 2026)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://my.acuityinsights.app/dates-times" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Acuity Insights: Dates and Fees page, 2026-2027 cycle, U.S. Medicine and Canada Medicine - Undergraduate (English) (read 24 Oct 2026)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://acuityinsights.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Casper-Step-by-Step-Guide-2026.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Acuity Insights: "A Step-by-Step Guide for Test Takers" (PDF, no date in it; read 21 Oct 2026)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://acuityinsights.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/10-important-things-2026.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Acuity Insights: "10 Important Things to Know Before Taking Casper" (PDF, no date in it; read 21 Oct 2026)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://intercom.help/acuityinsights/en/articles/4731400-how-to-reserve-and-schedule-your-casper-test" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Acuity Help Centre: "How to reserve and schedule your Casper test?" (page dated March 3, 2026; read 21 Oct 2026)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://intercom.help/acuityinsights/en/articles/4734030-how-can-i-reschedule-or-cancel-my-casper-test" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Acuity Help Centre: "How can I reschedule or cancel my Casper test?" (page dated March 2, 2026; read 21 Oct 2026)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://intercom.help/acuityinsights/en/articles/9824080-how-much-does-it-cost-to-take-casper" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Acuity Help Centre: "How much does it cost to take Casper?" (page dated March 11, 2026; read 21 Oct 2026)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://intercom.help/acuityinsights/en/articles/5864472-how-to-use-a-fee-assistance-program-when-reserving-your-casper-test" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Acuity Help Centre: "How to use a fee assistance program when reserving your Casper test?" (no date on the page; read 21 Oct 2026)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://intercom.help/acuityinsights/en/articles/4733986-can-i-distribute-my-acuity-insights-results-to-more-programs" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Acuity Help Centre: "Can I distribute my Acuity Insights results to more programs?" (page dated March 2, 2026; read 21 Oct 2026)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://intercom.help/acuityinsights/en/articles/4734041-when-and-how-are-my-casper-test-results-sent" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Acuity Help Centre: "When and how are my Casper test results sent?" (page dated March 3, 2026; read 21 Oct 2026)</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://ugme.healthsci.mcmaster.ca/admissions/before-you-apply/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">McMaster University UGME: "Before you apply", Casper section (read 21 Oct 2026)</a></li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472"><strong style="color:#1f7a45">official</strong> = a document published by the conducting body. <strong style="color:#8a5300">reported</strong> = a news or coaching site we could not check against an original. Where sources disagree this page says so rather than picking one.</p></div>

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<div style="background:#eef3fb;color:#303846;border:1px solid #c9d7ee;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 18px;margin:0 0 18px"><p style="margin:0;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6"><strong style="color:#171d29">Checked October 19, 2026.</strong> High. The Written Exercise replaced the Qualification Evaluation Panel in April 2026 and its format is still unpublished. Pearson VUE's page (Aug 7, 2026) covers scheduling only. Re-check it, and careers.state.gov, after your invitation arrives: the invitation letter is the document that binds you.</p></div>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7"><strong>If you are invited to the Foreign Service Officer Assessment (FSOA), the first thing you do is the Written Exercise.</strong> Pearson VUE, which runs it, says every invited candidate "will start by scheduling their Written Exercise", on one date inside a 5-day window named in the invitation letter, at a test center or on your own computer. The State Department's fact sheet of April 1, 2026 says why it exists: the Department "has returned to the use of a Written Examination to replace the Qualification Evaluation Panel given that the ability to think critically and write clear prose continues to be an essential skill for Foreign Service Officers." What neither page says is how long the exercise is, what you are asked to write, or how it is marked. This guide separates what is official, what is only reported, and what you can practise anyway. ProSyllabus is an independent study site. It is not affiliated with the US Department of State, its Board of Examiners or Pearson VUE, and nothing here is official. Every rule is quoted or summarised from State Department and Pearson VUE pages, and the Department decides every candidacy.</p>

<div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;margin:18px 0"><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">5-day window</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">the Authorized Dates in your invitation letter; you pick one date inside it</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">Test center or OnVUE</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">in person at Pearson or on your own computer</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">Within 2 weeks</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">of finishing it, Pearson invites you to schedule the final stage</div></div><div style="flex:1 1 140px;background:#fbfaf6;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:10px;padding:12px 14px"><div style="font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#171d29;line-height:1.2">Not published</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;line-height:1.4;margin-top:4px">length, prompt type and scoring</div></div></div><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472;margin:-8px 0 18px">Pearson VUE FSOA page, last updated Aug 7, 2026, re-read Oct 19, 2026.</p>

<div style="background:#fff8e8;color:#3a3020;border:1px solid #f0d9a8;border-left:4px solid #b7791f;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><p style="margin:0 0 8px;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#b7791f">Where other pages get this wrong</p><p style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29;line-height:1.5">Do not assume the Written Exercise follows the old FSOT essay or the old Case Management Exercise: no official page gives its format or length.</p><p style="margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.6"><strong style="color:#8a5300">Commonly published instead:</strong> Prep pages that still teach the timed FSOT essay (removed in October 2025) or the 90-minute Case Management memo of the pre-2026 assessment, and pages that state a time limit for the Written Exercise as if it were official.</p><p style="margin:0;line-height:1.6">The FSOT has had no essay since its October 2025 revision. The Case Management Exercise belongs to the assessment described in the State Department's 2023 FSOA Information Guide. Pearson VUE's current page, the only official page about the Written Exercise we found, is headed "FSO Essay" but gives no length, prompt or scoring.</p></div>

What is official, from Pearson VUE and the State Department

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Three more rules on the Pearson VUE page matter before you book. You must create a <em>new</em> Pearson account from the details in your invitation letter, "even if you have an existing Pearson account". Pearson says it "cannot guarantee an alternative assessment date outside of the specified range of Authorized Dates unless there are emergency or compelling extenuating circumstances". And a new disability accommodation must be requested through the Pearson Accommodations Portal "no later than two weeks before your desired Written Exercise date"; you cannot schedule until it is approved. The careers.state.gov accommodations page lists "Written Exercise (WE)" as one of the exam programs you choose there.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">The same Pearson page carries a "Plagiarism & AI Policy". The Department "reserves the right to cancel and/or disqualify a candidate's application or to withhold test results when, in its judgment, a testing irregularity occurs", and testing irregularities include "candidate misconduct and plagiarism". Practise with model memos to learn structure; do not memorise them.</p>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">One independent site, Path to Foreign Service, describes the exercise in more detail than any official page. Its guide (modified September 29, 2026) says the Written Exercise "gives you 45 minutes to read briefing materials on a foreign-policy situation and write a recommendation: what the United States should do and how the Embassy should approach it", and that "It is pass/fail". We could not confirm either point on a State Department or Pearson VUE page, and we found no second independent source for the 45 minutes, so treat both as <strong>unconfirmed</strong>. Your invitation letter, or the instructions on the day, will be the authority.</p>

The FSOA Case Management Exercise is not in the 2026 FSOA

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7"><strong>If you searched for the FSOA Case Management Exercise: it does not appear on any official page about the 2026 assessment.</strong> Up to 2025 the assessment had three components: the Case Management Exercise (a 90-minute memo), the Group Exercise and the Structured Interview (State Department FSOA Information Guide, October 2023). From the February 2024 FSOT cohort it ran online over two days, the Case Management Exercise first and the other two together later (State Department selection-process page, body "Updated: March 2024"). Since the redesign announced on April 1, 2026, the official pages describe two stages instead: the Written Exercise first, then the Structured Interview and Negotiation Exercise (Pearson VUE FSOA page, updated August 7, 2026, re-read October 21, 2026). Neither page mentions a Case Management Exercise. No official page says that it was abolished or that the Written Exercise replaced it; our reading is that the timed writing it tested now sits in the Written Exercise, whose stated purpose is critical thinking and "clear prose".</p>

The closest official precedent: the Case Management Exercise

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Before 2026 the FSOA had a written component too. The State Department's FSOA Information Guide (October 2023 edition) describes "the 90-minute Case Management Exercise", whose purpose was "to evaluate the candidate's management and writing skills"; the candidate was "expected to incorporate data and other numerical information in the analysis and recommended solutions". The guide suggested a split: "30 minutes reading and analyzing the material, 45 minutes writing the required memo, and 15 minutes reviewing and revising." Path to Foreign Service reports that the Case Management Exercise is now gone. We show it only because it is the Department's own most recent description of a timed FSOA memo; the 2026 format remains unpublished.</p>

<figure style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0;margin:18px 0"><figcaption style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">The 2023 guide's suggested split of the old 90-minute memo (minutes)</figcaption><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">Reading and analysing the material</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">30</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:66.7%;height:12px;background:#1f7a45;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">Writing the memo</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">45</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:100.0%;height:12px;background:#2f6fb0;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><div style="margin:0 0 10px"><div style="display:flex;justify-content:space-between;gap:10px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4;margin:0 0 4px"><span style="color:#303846">Reviewing and revising</span><strong style="color:#171d29;white-space:nowrap">15</strong></div><div style="background:#f1eee6;border-radius:6px;height:12px;overflow:hidden"><div style="width:33.3%;height:12px;background:#b7791f;border-radius:6px"></div></div></div><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">Source: State Department FSOA Information Guide, October 2023, for the pre-2026 Case Management Exercise. Not the 2026 Written Exercise, whose time limit is unpublished.</p></figure>

A memo method you can practise now (ours)

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Since the task is unpublished, practise the skill the fact sheet names, critical thinking and clear prose, in the shape both the reported description and the old exercise share: read a short set of documents, then write a recommendation a decision-maker could act on. The checks below are ours. Each one turns a phrase from one of the State Department's current competencies into something you can tick on your own draft.</p>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">A practice timing plan (ours, built on the reported 45 minutes)</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Minutes 0-12: read every document once, marking each figure and who stated it.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Minutes 12-15: write your recommendation in one sentence before drafting anything else.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Minutes 15-40: draft: recommendation, the options you rejected and why, the facts that support you, the actions, the main risk.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Minutes 40-45: proofread only. Fix figures first, then grammar.</li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">The 45 minutes is reported, not official. If your invitation gives a different time, keep the proportions: roughly a quarter reading, half or more writing, the last few minutes checking.</p></div>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">At the top of this page is the ProSyllabus Written Exercise practice: fictional Embassy briefings, a 45-minute practice clock, a box to write your memo, a model memo to compare with and written feedback on what you wrote. Briefing 1 is free in full, with no sign-in. The countries, people and figures in every briefing are invented. Practice material on this page is written by ProSyllabus. It is not taken from the State Department or Pearson VUE; we do not claim any of it appears in the assessment, and no practice score here is an official score.</p>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">The Written Exercise's time limit, word limit, number of prompts and kind of task, on any State Department or Pearson VUE page.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Whether it is pass/fail, and if scored, on what scale and with what cut-off.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Whether candidates may use notes, and what on-screen tools OnVUE provides for it.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">Any official sample prompt, sample memo or scoring rubric for it.</li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6">A second independent source for the reported 45 minutes.</li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">Searched on Pearson VUE and careers.state.gov on Oct 19, 2026. If the Department publishes the format, this guide will be rewritten around it.</p></div>

<p style="margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.7">Nothing on this page is legal, immigration or career advice. Questions about your own case go to the State Department at FSOTQuestions@state.gov.</p>

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<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Sources</h3><ul style="margin:0;padding-left:20px"><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://www.pearsonvue.com/us/en/fsoa-fso-essay.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Pearson VUE — "Foreign Service Officer Assessment (FSOA) - FSO Essay" page, "Last updated 2026-08-07", re-read 19 Oct 2026: the FSOA starts with the Written Exercise, test center or OnVUE, a new Pearson account from the invitation letter, one date inside the 5-day window of Authorized Dates, the invitation to the Structured Interview and Negotiation Exercise within two weeks, accommodation requests, the plagiarism and AI policy</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/04/u-s-department-of-state-announces-reforms-to-the-u-s-foreign-service-2" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">US Department of State, Fact Sheet "U.S. Department of State Announces Reforms to the U.S. Foreign Service" (1 Apr 2026; re-read 19 Oct 2026 through a text reader because state.gov refuses scripted requests): a Written Examination replaces the Qualification Evaluation Panel; the oral exam redesigned to test "substantive knowledge of U.S. foreign policy concepts, diplomatic history, and negotiation skills"</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://careers.state.gov/requesting-reasonable-accommodations/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">careers.state.gov — "Requesting Reasonable Accommodations" (modified 18 Mar 2026, read 19 Oct 2026): the FSOA "Structured Interview and Negotiation Exercise" is administered by the Department of State; requests to OAA@state.gov at least six weeks before; breaks including lunch; the Pearson exam program "Written Exercise (WE)"</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://careers.state.gov/foreign-service/competencies/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">careers.state.gov — "Foreign Service Officer and Specialist Competencies" (modified 22 Sep 2026, read 19 Oct 2026): the eleven competencies and their definitions</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#1f7a45;font-weight:700">official</span> — <a href="https://careers.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FSOA-Information-Guide-1.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">careers.state.gov — Foreign Service Officer Assessment Information Guide, October 2023 edition (PDF; the site's bot check blocks a direct download, so its text was read on 19 Oct 2026 through a text reader): the PRE-2026 assessment, its three components, the eleven dimensions of 2023, the one-hour Structured Interview, the 90-minute Case Management Exercise, the Group Exercise, the 1-7 scale and the 5.25 cut-off</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#8a5300;font-weight:700">reported</span> — <a href="https://pathtoforeignservice.com/how-to-become-a-foreign-service-officer-fso-diplomat/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Path to Foreign Service — "How to become a Foreign Service Officer (FSO)/Diplomat in 2026: Guide" (independent site, modified 29 Sep 2026, read 19 Oct 2026): reports a 45-minute Written Exercise, pass/fail, and that the Group Exercise format carries over into the Negotiation Exercise. Not an official source</a></li><li style="margin:6px 0;line-height:1.6"><span style="color:#8a5300;font-weight:700">reported</span> — <a href="https://pathtoforeignservice.com/the-new-fsot-and-fso-application-process/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color:#255a45">Path to Foreign Service — "The New FSOT and FSO Application Process" (independent site, modified 2 Sep 2026, read 19 Oct 2026): reports the Case Management Exercise gone, the Group Exercise renamed, and 5.25 kept as the threshold "until we learn otherwise". Not an official source</a></li></ul><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472"><strong style="color:#1f7a45">official</strong> = a document published by the conducting body. <strong style="color:#8a5300">reported</strong> = a news or coaching site we could not check against an original. Where sources disagree this page says so rather than picking one.</p></div>

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The first FSOA stage: one date in a 5-day window, at a test center or online. What Pearson VUE and the State Department say, what is only reported, and a memo method to practice.