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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>

<div style="background:#ffffff;color:#303846;border:1px solid #e4e1d8;border-radius:12px;padding:18px 20px;margin:18px 0" id="casper-dates-cd"><h3 style="margin:0 0 10px;font-size:17px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Countdown to the next Casper date, by test type</h3><div style="border-top:1px solid #e4e1d8;padding:10px 0"><div style="font-size:14px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">U.S. Medicine (allopathic and osteopathic) <span style="font-weight:600;color:#5b6472">(CSP-10111)</span></div><div id="casper-dates-cd-r0" style="font-size:14px;color:#303846;line-height:1.6">The next date and the time left show here when the page has loaded.</div></div><div style="border-top:1px solid #e4e1d8;padding:10px 0"><div style="font-size:14px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">United States Casper 2 (pharmacy, physician assistant, dentistry, veterinary and other programs) <span style="font-weight:600;color:#5b6472">(CSP-20100)</span></div><div id="casper-dates-cd-r1" style="font-size:14px;color:#303846;line-height:1.6">The next date and the time left show here when the page has loaded.</div></div><div style="border-top:1px solid #e4e1d8;padding:10px 0"><div style="font-size:14px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">United States Casper 1 (undergraduate nursing and other programs) <span style="font-weight:600;color:#5b6472">(CSP-10100)</span></div><div id="casper-dates-cd-r2" style="font-size:14px;color:#303846;line-height:1.6">The next date and the time left show here when the page has loaded.</div></div><div style="border-top:1px solid #e4e1d8;padding:10px 0"><div style="font-size:14px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Casper 2, Canada, English (undergraduate medicine and many other programs) <span style="font-weight:600;color:#5b6472">(CSP-10211)</span></div><div id="casper-dates-cd-r3" style="font-size:14px;color:#303846;line-height:1.6">The next date and the time left show here when the page has loaded.</div></div><div style="border-top:1px solid #e4e1d8;padding:10px 0"><div style="font-size:14px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Canada Casper 1, English (education, undergraduate nursing and other programs) <span style="font-weight:600;color:#5b6472">(CSP-10200)</span></div><div id="casper-dates-cd-r4" style="font-size:14px;color:#303846;line-height:1.6">The next date and the time left show here when the page has loaded.</div></div><div style="border-top:1px solid #e4e1d8;padding:10px 0"><div style="font-size:14px;font-weight:700;color:#171d29">Canada Casper 2, French <span style="font-weight:600;color:#5b6472">(CSP-20200F)</span></div><div id="casper-dates-cd-r5" style="font-size:14px;color:#303846;line-height:1.6">The next date and the time left show here when the page has loaded.</div></div><p style="margin:12px 0 0;font-size:13px;color:#5b6472">Dates from Acuity Insights' Dates and Fees page, read 27 October 2026; start times as Acuity lists them in Eastern time, then in your own time zone. 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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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