Qualifying exam
Under review
- Sitting
- 22 Mar 2027, 09:00 PKT
- Duration
- 90 min
- Results released
- 02 Apr 2027, 14:00 PKT
Design foundation
A verified record, not a product page.
The token system from which every screen is assembled. Colour, type, space, motion and status — each a named value, so a theme change touches one file and nothing else knows it happened.
W4-01 · tokens
Colour
Ink carries the product
ink-900
#071A16
ink-700
#10302A
ink-600
#1A4A40
ink-400
#4B8F80
ink-200
#C6DDD7
ink-050
#F1F8F5
ochre-700
#8A5A12
ochre-500
#C4881F
ochre-300
#E5B963
parch-500
#C9B896
parch-050
#FAF7EF
clay-600
#9A322A
Parchment appears on score reports, award offers and the verification page, and nowhere else. If it turns up on a dashboard the system has been diluted and the credential surfaces stop feeling special.
Type
Numbers are typeset, not styled
display-1A verified record
display-2Section opener
heading-1Page title
heading-3Card title
bodyDefault body copy, capped at 68 characters.
body-smConsole tables, dense lists, metadata
data-lg268
dataSR-2027A-04182
Every score, percentile, reference and amount is set in the mono face with tabular figures. A candidate reads these aloud to a university and copies them into forms, so they have to be unambiguous — and a number that means something must never look like a number that is just prose.
Status
Five families, and no sixth
ClearedUnder reviewVoidedNot selectedNotice
Colour is never the only signal — every status carries a word, and an icon where one helps. Roughly one man in twelve has a colour vision deficiency, which makes a red-green pair exactly the wrong thing to depend on. These five are locked and cannot be reassigned by a seasonal theme, because status colour carries meaning rather than mood.
Actions
One primary per region
Ochre is reserved for the primary action on an ink surface and for anything to do with an award. Spending it elsewhere wastes the one colour that means money. Labels are verb phrases naming the outcome — “Accept this award”, never “Submit” — so the confirmation can echo them back.
Containers
Everything has a reference and a state
Application
Not selected
- Cohort percentile
- 78.4
- Awards in your cohort
- 12
- Minimum standard
- Cleared
“Not selected” is neutral, never adverse. Telling a candidate their percentile, how many awards their cohort had, and that they cleared the standard is both kinder and far more defensible than a bare rejection.
The decision surface
The worst news, delivered properly
Voided
Your result for the 22 March sitting has been voided.
Reason
A second person was present during part of the assessment. Results are only valid where the work is the candidate's own and unassisted.
What was observed
- A second face was visible in the camera between 00:41:03 and 00:41:14.
- A second voice was audible over the same period.
- You were invited to respond on 24 March and replied on 26 March. Your response was considered.
Decided byAssessment AdministratorDate28 Mar 2027
You have 14 days from today, until 11 April 2027.
Five parts, in this order, always: the decision, the reason in plain language, the evidence relied on, who decided and when, and the route to challenge it — in the same message, never a separate email. No illustration, no apology, no reassuring colour. A named human recorded this decision before the candidate ever saw it.
Form controls
Consent is never bundled
As it appears on the identity document you will verify with.
For example 04 09 2003
The programme is open from 18. This is locked once your identity is verified.
The code expires in 10 minutes. You can ask for a new one after 60 seconds.
0 / 1500
In your own words. There is no right answer and no format we expect.
Labels are always visible; a placeholder is an example, never a label, because it vanishes the moment someone types — exactly when a reader working in a second language most needs to check what was asked. Errors say what to do rather than what went wrong. And every consent is a separate block with its own statement in full, its own document version, and a plain line saying what happens if it is declined. Declining to be recorded routes to a supervised live session, not out of the programme.
States
Seven states, not one
No scholarships match those filters yet
Nothing is open to your nationality at master's level this cycle. The next cycle opens in November, and two programmes in your region accept applications then.
Loading
Every screen that loads data defines all seven states: loading, empty, populated, partial, error, forbidden and offline. The two that get forgotten are partial — show what succeeded and retry only the part that failed, never discard good data — and forbidden, which says so plainly without revealing whether the record exists. An empty state never reads “No results found”; it names the criterion that excluded you and what would change it.
Preview
What this page is not
This is the design foundation, not the home page. PUB-01 is task W14-02 and cannot honestly render until there is a cycle record to read the deadline from, tier records to read real award values from, and a published funnel from a completed cycle. Every number on the real home page comes from those records, never from a designer’s placeholder, because the public rules and the rules the engine enforces are generated from the same source and must not be able to drift apart.