Everything we know about the exam, the costs and the career — written the way we coach: specific numbers, no padding. Every published guide is checked against the current Brightspace exam format, the one most of the internet hasn’t caught up with.
Harder than the ads admit, easier than the forums fear — and exactly how hard depends on where you’re starting from.
/is-cemap-hard · Updated July 202635–60 focused hours for most people, inside an 18-month registration window. Nobody honest says “a weekend”.
/how-long-does-cemap-take · Updated July 2026Know your readiness before you book, then study your gaps — not the chapters in order.
/how-to-pass-cemap · Updated July 2026£735 for the full qualification, £120 per resit — plus the optional revision costs worth knowing before you register.
/cemap-cost · Updated July 2026The current remote Brightspace format — units, question counts and timings as they are now, not as they were.
/cemap-exam-format-2026 · Updated July 202670% for every current unit — and what that number should change about your revision.
/cemap-pass-mark · Updated July 202620-question timed practice papers, paced to the current unit exams — and what a score can and cannot tell you.
/cemap-mock-exam · Updated July 2026Why a hundred exam-grade questions beat a thousand easy ones — with a free sample to try.
/cemap-practice-questions · Updated July 2026£120 a unit, the booking rules, and a two-week recovery plan that starts with why you failed.
/cemap-resit · Updated July 2026Eight real questions, two minutes, no account — your PassIQ™ score, your three biggest gaps, a plan.
The single weakest topic in our question data — a deep explainer with five sample questions.
/cemap-consumer-duty · Updated July 2026The unit names since the spec change, untangled once so you never have to think about it again.
/fre1-vs-fre2 · Updated July 2026The least-documented part of CeMAP online, documented — what it tests and how it asks.
/asew-assc-guide · Updated July 2026What mortgage advisers actually earn, stage by stage — from first CAS day to self-employed.
/cemap-salary · Updated July 2026An honest comparison — including the places they genuinely win.
/cemap-vs-uacademy · Updated July 2026