Casper Assessments
Competitive Entry to Assiniboine’s programs
Assiniboine’s Practical Nursing, Medical Laboratory Technology (MLT), Combined Laboratory X-Ray Technology (CLXT) programs include Acuity Insights Casper assessments as a part of the competitive entry of their admissions process. This assessment enables applicants to demonstrate their personal competencies earlier on in the admission process.
Assiniboine’s competitive entry admission process aims to admit students that are assessed for specific non-academic attributes or personal competencies, which are necessary to these professions including collaboration, communication, empathy, equity, ethics, motivation, problem solving, professionalism, resilience, and self-awareness. These essential skills and abilities are identified to provide safe, competent, and ethical professional care to meet the demands for these careers in Manitoba.
All applicants must meet Admission Requirements. Refer to the CLXT, MLT and Practical Nursing program pages for their respective Application Check Lists to help you collate your documents to ensure your application is complete.
About Casper
Casper is a selection tool used by academic programs across North America to help assess applicants for non-academic attributes or personal competencies. It is not an Assiniboine-owned tool.
Casper is a form of situational judgment test. Situational judgment tests are a type of psychological test that presents the test-taker with realistic, hypothetical scenarios and may ask the individual what they would do in the dilemma and why they would do it. Situational judgment tests tend to determine behavioral tendencies, assessing how an individual will behave in a certain situation, and knowledge instruction, which evaluates the effectiveness of possible responses.
Casper Test: This online test is 90-110 minutes in length, including both typed and video response scenarios.
IMPORTANT: Full details about the test, including a video, can be found on the Acuity Insights website. Applicants are strongly encouraged to read the information about assessment preparation and FAQs. Applicants can ensure technical requirements are met and undertake a full practice assessment prior to their actual scheduled assessment.
Registering for your Casper Test
For all information about Casper assessments, to find Casper test dates and to register for your test, visit the Casper website.
Practical Nursing
To find test dates and register, click ‘Search for Test Dates’.
On the left hand panel, select the following information:
- Country: Canada
- Language: English
- Admissions Cycle
- If you are applying for a Practical Nursing program starting in September 2026, January 2027 or May 2027, you may select Admissions Cycle 2025-26 or 2026-27
- If you are applying for a Practical Nursing program starting in September 2027, January 2028 or May 2028, select Admissions Cycle 2026-27
- Programs:
- If you selected 2025-26 Admissions Cycle, look under English: Undergraduate Health Sciences and select Nursing - Undergraduate
- If you selected the 2026-27 Admissions Cycle, look under Canada Casper 1 (English) and select Undergraduate Nursing
- Schools: select Assiniboine College Practical Nursing
You can apply to your program before receiving your Casper test score. Once you have applied to Assiniboine and receive your student ID number, register for the next available Casper test date using your college student ID number.
If you have not yet applied for your program, you can still take Casper, but you will not have a student ID number to provide during registration and can leave the student ID field blank.
Applicants who apply to more than one location of the Practical Nursing program need only take one Casper assessment. Applicants are responsible for the cost of Casper.
MLT and CLXT
To find test dates and register, click ‘Search for Test Dates’.
On the left hand panel, select the following information:
- Country: Canada
- Language: English
- Admissions Cycle: Those applying to the MLT or CLXT program starting in September 2027, select Admissions Cycle 2026-2027
- Display test timezone: Local time
- Programs: under Casper 2, select Combined Laboratory and X-Ray Technology or Medical Laboratory Technology
- Schools: select Assiniboine College
You can apply to your program before receiving your Casper test score. Once you have applied to Assiniboine and receive your student ID number, register for the next available Casper test date using your college student ID number.
If you have not yet applied for your program, you can still take Casper, but you will not have a student ID number to provide during registration and can leave the student ID field blank.
Fees are paid directly to Casper. Specific details can be found on Casper’s Dates and Fees webpage.
Note: All registration, fees, and any accommodation requests are direct with Casper. Please refer to the Casper website, and contact Casper if you have questions on these items or the test itself.
For questions about Assiniboine’s admissions process, please visit assiniboine.net/admissions. If your question is not answered here, email [email protected].
FAQs
Which Casper test do I take?
The Casper test required depends on the program you are applying to:
- Practical Nursing (PN): Canada Casper 1 English (CSP-10200)
- Medical Laboratory Technology (MLT) & Combined Lab and X-Ray Technology (CLXT): Casper 2 (CSP-10211)
How do I register for Casper?
Visit Acuity Insights and click on “reserve your test”. You will be required to create a Casper account. Also, review the FAQ “How do I reserve my test?” on the FAQ General Questions page.
See the steps above on this webpage to help you find the correct test dates for your program application.
How do I arrange a test accommodation for a documented disability?
An applicant requiring accommodation for a documented disability for the Casper may apply through Casper for accommodations. See Casper Accommodations webpage for more information.
When do I get my results from Casper?
The Casper assessment is not a pass or fail test. It measures your personal skills in relation to the entire applicant pool. Ratings are not sent to students.
You will not receive an email from Casper stating that your score has been delivered to Assiniboine, but you will see “Completed – Results delivered” in the Reservations sections of you Casper account.
See Casper FAQs about after the assessment for more detail.
Assiniboine uses Casper’s rating in its competitive entry application decision.
How is Casper evaluated?
Once completed, the applicant is rated in 10 areas (collaboration, communication, empathy, equity, ethics, motivation, problem-solving, professionalism, resilience, and self-awareness), using a rubric and rating scale.
Your Casper test is evaluated by a team of Casper raters, who are a group of independent contractors employed by Acuity Insights. The rater pool is designed to be representative of the population of the country where your program resides – this includes individuals from a wide range of professions, including but not limited to the profession to which you’re applying (e.g., healthcare). Each of the scenarios of your test are rated by a different rater, so no rater will see more than one set of your responses. This is to help ensure that each applicant’s test is evaluated using a balance of different perspectives, to ensure that each scenario is considered equally when determining your overall score (as opposed to any one rater’s first impression influencing your score on the other scenarios), and to eliminate the effects of bias. Each rater only sees your typed and video responses to the Casper test – any other information (such as your name, your survey responses, or the programs you’re applying to) have been removed – meaning that they cannot consider any of this information when assigning a score.
In the end, the ratings from all questions are totaled for an overall rating for each applicant. Ratings are sent to Assiniboine College by Casper and considered during application review and decisions.
Are there other tests I can or should take as part of my application?
No. Snapshot video and DUET are not required for Assiniboine applicants. Casper is the only assessment required.