Functional Skills – Practice Papers

We are pleased to offer VTCT Skills registered learners a number of a Functional Skills onscreen practice papers at each subject level. These are representative of our live assessment papers and will enable VTCT Skills learners to support and familiarise themselves with the testing platform prior to their exam and support learners in getting exam ready for their live assessment.

In addition, we have introduced new functionality that allows the learner to download their responses so that they can be marked by their tutor / teacher.

Note to learners and tutors:

Please check with your training provider or college that you are registered with VTCT Skills for Functional Skills, prior to using these practice assessments. 

If you have any questions please email exams@skillsfirst.co.uk

Download the mark schemes (zipped folder 34MB)

How to use our practice papers

Please follow these instructions to access the practice papers and new functionality:

You will need to use Google Chrome to sit a practice exam.

Once you have launched the exam you will be prompted to enter your name. Please enter your full name and press ‘Complete‘, the practice exam will then begin.

At the end of the exam press ‘Finish‘.

You will see a loading bar that states ‘Getting your downloadable results‘. After around 30 seconds, this will update to say ‘Download your results‘, by choosing this option you can either print off your responses or send them electronically to your tutor. Please note, you must press ‘finish’ on the exam in order to download your responses.