Use this material to examine your own work. Confirm current requirements, forms and dates with ICE before applying.
Your report must be your own work. The Communication Task is a closed-book assessment. Both are checked, and breaches can have serious consequences.
Help during preparation
Your lead sponsor is required to provide constructive criticism of the report. Other preparation help can also be appropriate, provided you remain the author of the work. Distinguish feedback on what you wrote from someone else producing the submission for you.
Preparing your submission
Look for
- Have your report read, criticised and marked up by your lead sponsor, colleagues and friends. ICE's own checklist suggests exactly this.
- Be told that a paragraph is unclear, that a section says 'we' throughout, or that an attribute is not evidenced.
- Use a spelling and grammar checker.
- Practise with a mentor, and be told your answers are vague.
- Quote a source properly, with attribution and quotation marks, where you need to.
- Use tools to check readability, consistency and structure in text you wrote.
Watch for
- Have anyone (person or software) write substantial passages of your report.
- Generate a first-person account of experience and then edit it into your own voice.
- Adapt someone else's report, or an example from a guidance pack, into your submission.
- Reuse a colleague's project description as though it were your account.
- Agree with anyone to conceal their contribution. That is collusion, and it is named specifically.
- Use any AI tool, search engine, other person or other device during the review or the Communication Task.
Preparation tools and authorship
The tools help you organise and examine your own work. They do not draft report text, generate experience, write examples in your voice or fill an application with invented facts. The report planner helps with structure.
Feedback should identify an omission you can address, such as "this paragraph does not say who decided". Replacing your writing without your involvement removes your authorship.
Fictional examples illustrate differences in reasoning. They are labelled as such and should not be adapted into a submission.
Communication Task practice has two modes. Learning mode offers planning help, structure guidance and feedback. Closed-book simulation gives no hints once you start. Keep other help closed when practising under assessment conditions.
ICE prohibits using this site during a real review; a breach risks a ban on applying for membership. Whatever preparation help you use, you remain responsible for the submission you sign.
Official sources
Selected publisher pages were rechecked in September 2026. Other source records were last checked in July 2026. Open the latest official document before relying on a requirement.