Assessment dates - Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan

The following information is for candidates in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Chartered Assessments:

The following information is for APC, Senior Professional, Academic and Specialist candidates.

RICS run three submission windows every year for final assessment.

Intent to submit

From 14 October 2025, all eligible candidates in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan be emailed so they can register their intent to submit via the Assessment Platform.

APC Structured Training candidates
- To submit your Intent to Submit, you must first complete 11 months of training (for APC12 candidates) or 23 months of training (for APC24 candidates). You won’t be able to submit your intent until this requirement is fulfilled.

Important: When providing your Intent to submit, ensure your pathway, route and counsellor details are all correct, once you have given your Intent to Submit these cannot be changed.

If you do not provide your intent to submit, you will not be able to apply for the coming assessment, the Assessment window will not appear on your Assessment Platform and you will need to wait for the next assessment session.

Submission windows

Session 3 – 2025 will be the final window where eligible submissions are accepted via the Assessment Platform on or before 11.59 PM HKT on the final day of submission deadline.

From Session 4 – 2025 onwards, eligible submissions must be received via the Assessment Platform on or before 5:00 PM HKT on the final day of submission deadline. This is to maximise the RICS support during working hours, or any technical issues or questions that may arise.

*We aim to ensure that all eligible candidates are assessed within the above timeframes. However, our ability to deliver assessments in a timely manner is driven exclusively by assessor availability. There may be, from time to time, situations where you will not be interviewed during these specific windows and we ask for your flexibility in being interviewed later.

APC Preliminary Review

Session 3 – 2025 will be the final window where eligible submissions are accepted via the Assessment Platform on or before 11.59 PM HKT on the final day of submission deadline.

From Session 4 – 2025 onwards, eligible submissions must be received via the Assessment Platform on or before 5:00 PM HKT on the final day of submission deadline.

These dates below are for the review stage only.  If you have been successful in your Preliminary Review and need to proceed to the assessment interview stage, please see the Chartered Assessment dates above.

RICS run three preliminary review sessions each year. The sessions for the year are:

*We aim to provide you with a result within 6 weeks of receiving your submission, but we cannot guarantee this. If your result is to be delayed, you will be notified and alternate arrangements made accordingly.

Associate Assessment

Session 3 – 2025 will be the final window where eligible submissions are accepted via the Assessment Platform on or before 11.59 PM HKT on the final day of submission deadline.

From Session 4 – 2025 onwards, eligible submissions must be received via the Assessment Platform on or before 5:00 PM HKT on the final day of submission deadline.

RICS run three associate assessment sessions each year. The sessions for the year are:

*We aim to provide you with a result within 6 weeks of receiving your submission, but we cannot guarantee this. If your result is to be delayed, you will be notified accordingly.

At the RICS APC assessor engagement event on March 27th,  RICS announced that the Qualifications and Assessment Committee (QAC) has approved a new policy and framework that will allow for a pilot delivery of in-person APC/SPA final assessments.

As part of this new policy, Hong Kong has been selected as the region to conduct an in-person assessment pilot. Starting with the October 2025 session, all final assessments in Hong Kong will be conducted exclusively in person.

Candidates who are referred have the right to appeal.

You cannot appeal simply because you disagree with the assessors’ decision about your competence. The appeal panel does not question the merits of the assessors’ decision. It looks at the way the final assessment was conducted, and will allow the appeal only if, on the balance of probabilities, there was fault in the process.

It does not reach any conclusion about the candidate’s competence to practise: it considers only administrative or procedural matters.

Appeal panel

Appeals are considered by an RICS appeal panel of three chartered surveyors who have no connection with you or your employer, and no previous knowledge of your final assessment interview.

The appeal panel has no powers to admit a candidate to RICS membership: if an appeal is approved, the original final assessment interview is disregarded and you will be given a fresh interview.

How to appeal                                                 

You have 21 days in which to appeal. This is taken from the date on which your referral report is issued.

• Complete the APC candidate appeal form (download it from this page) and submit the required appeal fee (no third party may appeal on your behalf).
• Detail, in no more than 1,000 words, the reasons for the appeal. No further supporting documentation is permitted and no representations may be submitted by another party who was not present at the interview (e.g. supervisor, counsellor, employer)
• Send to RICS within 21 days of the date your referral report was issued.

The process takes approximately seven weeks following receipt of your appeal.