As a member of RICS, you will be required to deliver "surveying services" within an ethical context and subject to certain ethical standards.

This exercise is designed to enhance your understanding of RICS’ twelve ethical standards. Awareness of the standards will help you throughout your career in handling difficult situations or where there is a danger that your professionalism may be comprised.

Each screen will be dedicated to one standard. Please ensure that you read the standard and its example carefully.

When you have read through the dilemma and selected the right answer you will be able to progress to the next screen.

Don’t worry if you select the wrong answer, you will have an opportunity to answer again.

But do read through the responses from the exercise to understand why the answer you gave is considered appropriate or not.

At the end of the exercise, you will be required to declare that you understand each of RICS' Ethical Standards.

Please print and complete the declaration and send it to RICS Membership Operations at the same time as submitting the required documents for final assessment.

You may be aware that RICS updated and launched its Rules of Conduct on 4 June 2007.

The short principles-based Rules of Conduct for members and firms set out high-level requirements and are supported by policy statements and help sheets.

In addition to completing the online ethics exercise, you are expected to download a copy of the guidance on how to study the new Rules of Conduct* and be aware of them in your everyday work.

Take the exercise now.

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