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Situational judgment: applied practice: open practice pack: answer key

20 untimed questions across 4 authored sections.

This is untimed educational practice for one applied skill. It is not a clinical, diagnostic, employment, or professionally recognized assessment, it does not produce a score or credential, and for the judgement and safety families it is not a substitute for your employer's own policies, training, or legal duties.

Answer key

ItemChoiceAnswer
situational-judgement-applied-s01-q01ACheck the figure against its source, and if it is wrong tell the report's owner what you found and what the corrected figure should be, in time to change it
situational-judgement-applied-s01-q02DSpeak to them privately, describe the specific behaviour and the effect it has, and agree how you will both handle it next time
situational-judgement-applied-s01-q03BComplete the part you are certain about, write down the specific questions blocking the rest, and put them to the next best-informed person or to the absent colleague
situational-judgement-applied-s01-q04CTell your manager today with the revised date, the cause, and what you would need to hold the original one
situational-judgement-applied-s01-q05DFollow the new process while recording a concrete example of where it fails, and take that example to whoever owns the process
situational-judgement-applied-s02-q01BAsk them directly what is holding it up and when they expect it, then decide together whether help or escalation is needed
situational-judgement-applied-s02-q02CState your objection once for the record, implement the decision properly, and agree what evidence would justify revisiting it
situational-judgement-applied-s02-q03ADecline to misdescribe it, offer to help put the error right, and encourage them to report it themselves
situational-judgement-applied-s02-q04DBook a short, specific slot to walk them through the part they are stuck on, and point them to the reference for the rest
situational-judgement-applied-s02-q05CNote it, then afterwards set out factually who did what to the person concerned and, if needed, to whoever keeps the record
situational-judgement-applied-s03-q01DTell your manager now, with the size of the error, what it changes, and a proposed correction to send the client
situational-judgement-applied-s03-q02ADecline, and tell your manager or the procurement lead that the offer was made, so it is on the record
situational-judgement-applied-s03-q03CSay precisely what concerns you and which policy, ask for the instruction in writing, and use the escalation route if it still stands
situational-judgement-applied-s03-q04BReport it through the normal reporting route, because near-misses are the evidence used to remove the hazard before it causes harm
situational-judgement-applied-s03-q05AAsk what evidence would change the decision, gather it if you can, and use the next formal route only if the risk is serious and remains unaddressed
situational-judgement-applied-s04-q01CTell them as soon as you know, with what you can deliver, by when, and what would help
situational-judgement-applied-s04-q02BReport the actual position, the reason for it, and how you intend to recover
situational-judgement-applied-s04-q03DKeep following it while finding out what risk it was introduced to control, then propose a change that still controls that risk
situational-judgement-applied-s04-q04AAct on the part that is accurate, and ask for the specific examples behind the part you do not recognise
situational-judgement-applied-s04-q05BMeasure how long it actually takes, then propose the change with that figure and an estimate of the effort to build it