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A CBA is a months-long project. It should be run like one.

Twenty-two to thirty-four examples is not a task you finish in a weekend, and the failure mode is not difficulty. It is drift. CBA Pro tracks where you actually are, what to do next, and whether your date is still realistic.

  • A seven-item checklist where nothing is ticked by hand
  • A weekly pace line: how many a week hits your date
  • The daily nudge is skipped entirely if you were already active today
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Getting started · 7 steps
  • Finish onboarding
  • Add your first work experience
  • Reach 3 experiences
  • Start your first competency
  • Complete it
  • Run the self-assessment score
  • Set your target date

Target: 14 Nov

4 competencies per week to hit your date.

9-day streak

Nudge skipped: you were already active today

+155 Points · Silver league

$25 in credit, redeemable against a P.Eng review.

Nothing here is ticked by hand. Every tick is read from what you have actually done.

Progress read from what you did, not what you claimed

The getting-started checklist lives on a floating card, minimisable to an 'n of 7 steps done' pill, and covers the whole first week: finish onboarding, add your first experience, reach three, start your first competency, complete it, run the self-assessment score, set your target date.

Nothing on it is a manual checkbox. Each tick is read from your account's real state, so it lands the moment the underlying thing is true: when your third work experience saves, the item ticks itself and the Application card unlocks. Two items carry sub-steps, and 'complete your first competency' always lists the five workflow steps.

Beyond the first week, pacing takes over. Set a target submission date and, in the last 120 days, the header banner counts down and tells you how many competencies a week hits it. A weekly countdown email runs while your progress is under 90%, and a daily reminder fires near your preferred time in your own timezone.

The systems that keep you moving

  1. 1

    The self-ticking checklist

    Seven items, read from live state. It never pushes the main cards below the fold, and it minimises to a pill once you would rather it were out of the way.

  2. 2

    Target date and pace

    Set a submission date and, from 120 days out, the header banner carries the countdown and the weekly rate you need. The weekly countdown email stops once you reach 90%: an urgency email on a finished application is just noise.

  3. 3

    Reminders on your schedule

    Near your preferred time of day, in your timezone, and skipped entirely on days you were already active. A nudge that arrives after you have done the work teaches you to ignore nudges.

  4. 4

    Points, streaks and leagues

    Points for experiences added, for answer detail, for completing a competency and for doing it promptly. Reaching Silver is worth $25 in credit and Gold $50, redeemable against NPPE Pro, a Review by P.Eng, career consulting or a CBA Pro upgrade.

Gamification that isn't decorative

Bronze is worth nothing, deliberately

A reward for signing up is not a reward. Credit starts at Silver, and Gold is set high enough that reaching it takes sustained work.

Points track work, not logins

You earn for recorded experiences, detailed answers and completed competencies: the things that actually move a submission forward.

One toast, coalesced

'+55 Points', with 'Detailed answer ×3' beneath it, as one reward for a batch of work rather than a toast per answer, drained from a one-shot outbox so a page refresh cannot replay your history at you.

Stats you can act on

Streak, real time invested (from 30-second heartbeats of visible, non-idle time), percentage complete, a seven-day chart, plan usage meters and mastery by category.

How long a Competency-Based Assessment really takes

There is no honest single number, because the work splits unevenly. Recording your experience base takes an evening. The first two or three competencies are slow, because you are learning what an assessor wants. After that, suppose you settle into a rhythm of two to four competencies a week alongside a full-time job.

On that rhythm, a 22-competency framework is roughly two months of consistent evenings and a 34-competency one closer to three. What blows the estimate is not writing speed; it is the weeks where nothing happens, followed by the realisation that the date you had in mind is no longer reachable.

That is why the pace line matters more than the countdown. Knowing you are 40% through with six weeks left is ambiguous. Knowing you need four a week from here, when you have been doing two, is a decision: either the rate changes or the date does, and you get to choose which while both are still options.

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“This was a wonderful experience. Hossein and Jenny were very helpful and prompt to reply to my emails and questions. Hossein got on a call with me before enrolling just to answer my questions. The review for my CBA questions was detailed, thorough with clear direction on what needs to be done to improve, which made it very easy for me to fix my answers. They gave me a time for looking into my CBA questions. They ended up delivering earlier than promised. Finally, they are very fairly priced. Definitely recommend their service for anyone looking to get someone to assess their CBA answers.”

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Match your experience, close the gaps, draft, review, finalize. The screen always answers “what do I do next?”, and steps 1 and 2 use no credits.

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Your CV in, structured evidence out

Upload your résumé and each role becomes a work-experience record. Anything the parser could not read is ringed amber for you to fill, never guessed.

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Then a real P.Eng reads it

A licensed Professional Engineer reads every competency line by line, in five business days, with one complimentary meeting included.

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Pacing & progress: questions applicants ask

No. Everything works without one; you just do not get the countdown or the pace line. Applicants with a firm regulator deadline get the most out of setting it.

Only if you are not already working. The daily reminder fires near your preferred time of day in your timezone and is skipped entirely on days you were active in the app. There is also a weekly countdown email while a target date is set and your progress is under 90%.

Silver is $25 and Gold is $50, each granted once, and redeemable against NPPE Pro, a Review by P.Eng, career consulting or a CBA Pro plan upgrade. Bronze carries nothing on purpose.

Yes. It comes from 30-second heartbeats of visible, non-idle time in the app, not from how long a tab was left open.

In short

CBA Pro tracks progress through a seven-item getting-started checklist read from live account state (nothing is ticked manually), an optional target submission date with a header countdown and a 'competencies per week' pace line in the last 120 days, a weekly countdown email while progress is under 90%, and daily reminder emails sent near the applicant's preferred time in their own timezone and skipped on days they were already active. A points system rewards recorded experiences, answer detail and completed competencies, with one-time league credits of $25 at Silver and $50 at Gold, redeemable against other CertNova products; Bronze carries no reward. A stats page reports streak, real non-idle time invested, percentage complete, plan usage and mastery by competency category.

Run one full competency, free

Every step, on a real competency, with no card. Everything you write carries over the moment you upgrade.

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