APC Pathway Pro grew out of a simple frustration: every candidate we knew was preparing the same way — generic question banks, late-night cramming, and a nagging doubt that they weren't actually being tested on their own submission. We wanted something better.
Our story
APC Pathway Pro started as a side project of RICHMOR Cost Consultants — a small attempt to generate realistic mock questions from a real case study. The idea worked so well in practice that it turned into the product you're looking at today.
APC revision is strange. You have months of quiet reading followed by a few weeks of intense, scattered panic. Most of the available tools don't know your submission, your projects, or the specific claims you've made — so the questions they ask feel generic.
Real assessors do the opposite. They read your submission carefully, pick the claims that interest them, and probe. That's what we wanted to recreate — a tool that reads what you actually wrote and asks the questions an assessor would.
The product is deliberately narrow. One thing, done quietly and well, beats a dashboard full of features you won't use the week before assessment day.
What we believe
If a feature breaks any of these, it doesn't ship. We'd rather be narrow and trusted than broad and forgettable.
Every question should come from something you actually wrote. No stock question banks, no pattern-matching against last year's guidance.
Scoring and feedback are anchored to the official RICS APC assessor guide — level definitions, questioning technique, competency rubric.
Countdown, readiness, progress — presented quietly. Your final assessment is stressful enough without a UI that shouts at you.
Because it's a British qualification. Small detail, but it matters when you're rehearsing the language you'll speak on the day.
Submissions and answers are encrypted and accessible only to you. We don't train models on your work or share it with anyone.
Fifteen focused minutes a day beats an eight-hour weekend cram. Our default rhythm is designed around that truth.
How we're different
Three decisions that sound obvious on paper, but genuinely change how your prep feels.
Case study, experience record, CPD log — every question is pulled from something you claimed. No generic L3 prompts that could apply to anyone.
Competency demonstration, specificity, technical accuracy, professional language, structure. Weighted the way a real assessor weights them.
Every answer gets three to five specific, actionable next steps — worded the way an experienced APC counsellor would word them.
Built by surveyors
APC Pathway Pro was created by David Morris MRICS, director of RICHMOR Cost Consultants — a chartered quantity surveying and cost consultancy firm based in Hampshire's New Forest, working with clients across southern England and remotely UK-wide.
After sitting and passing the APC himself, David built this tool to give the next cohort the kind of personalised, assessor-honest practice he wished he'd had access to. Every question template, scoring dimension and piece of feedback copy is grounded in his own experience as a chartered cost manager — and pressure-tested against real submission documents.
Ready when you are
Five free questions to start, no card required. See how the personalised questions feel before you decide.