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Free technical skills challenge

Test Your Technical Knowledge

How strong is your technical judgement?

Take one of our free electrical safety and smart metering challenges. Examine real-world scenarios, identify potential hazards and receive a personalised technical assessment report based on your answers.

View the challenges Written observation and multiple choice · 5–15 minutes
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Each challenge is marked against its own criteria and produces its own mini-report. Free, open to anyone working in or entering the smart metering industry.

Video observation
Smart Metering / Electrical SafetyAdvanced

Advanced Metering Safety Observation

Meter Tails, Existing Connections and Safe Working Practices

A short recording of installation work beside existing metering equipment. Identify the hazards to meter tails and terminations, then explain the checks, precautions and escalation an experienced metering engineer would apply.

Format
Video observation – written technical response
Time
5 minutes
Marks available
100 marks
Cost
Free · no account
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What you receive

A technical report, not a quiz score

The result is written the way our paid assessments are written: what was demonstrated, what was missing, and why it matters.

Criterion-level scoring

Each answer is assessed against the challenge's own published criteria, with marks shown out of the maximum for every criterion.

Evidence from your own words

Your report quotes the statements that earned marks, and explains the technical considerations that were missed or not developed.

No account, no payment

Challenges are free and open. Your report is private to a link only you hold, and sharing it is always your choice.

Educational assessment only. These challenges assess the knowledge and professional judgement demonstrated in a submitted response. They do not establish practical competence, provide occupational authorisation, or replace a formal competence assessment. Written responses are marked automatically against the challenge criteria; a report is never labelled human-reviewed unless a person has actually reviewed it.

Privacy. Your response and report are stored so the report can be reopened by its own private link. Marking is automated against the challenge criteria, and a submission may be reviewed by a person where the automated result needs correcting. Nothing is shared or published without your explicit action. Ask MeterSkillsCheck to delete your submission and report at any time.

Full technical assessments Sample report

Video observation challenge

Watch a short technical clip, identify the hazards you can see, and explain the risks, precautions and actions an experienced metering engineer would consider. Replay it as often as you need.

Multiple choice challenge

Work through technical knowledge questions on safe working, meter-tail integrity, authorisation boundaries and professional judgement, then read the technical explanation behind every answer.

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