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Phase 7 · Your result

Your result

When the result arrives, what a successful outcome means, and what to do with reviewers' comments if it is not.

Who this is for:Candidates at any stage

Results come by email, no later than six weeks after the review. Both reviewers must have been satisfied, on the day, in every attribute area.

What happens after the reviewA result arrives by email within six weeks. If successful, you register as IEng MICE or CEng MICE. If unsuccessful, you receive the reviewers' comments and may re-sit by making a complete new application, or appeal within two months where there was an error in the process or an unforeseen event.Result by emailwithin six weeks of your reviewSuccessfulBoth reviewers were satisfied in every attribute area.You register as IEng MICE or CEng MICE.A Chartered review also carries the title Chartered Civil Engineer orChartered Infrastructure Engineer.If you ticked the box, your name is published on the ICE website fivedays after the result.CPD continues — it does not stop here.UnsuccessfulYou receive the reviewers' comments explaining why.Discuss them with your lead sponsor and with ICE staff.A re-sit means the whole application again, including new sponsorstatements.Your new reviewers see nothing of the previous attempt.An appeal is for an error in the process or an unforeseen event, withintwo months — not for disagreeing.

What ICE says

Institution of Civil Engineers

  • You will be told your result by email no later than six weeks after your review.
  • The reviewers must be satisfied that you have demonstrated competence for all attributes at the review to be successful.
  • If you selected the tick box on the application form and you are successful, your name is published on the ICE website five days after the result is issued, and subsequently appears on the New Civil Engineer website.
  • If you are unsuccessful you will be provided with the reviewers' comments explaining the reasons why, which will help you discuss the result with your lead sponsor and ICE staff who can help you prepare for a future review.
Result issued
6weeks maximum after the reviewBy email.

From Incorporated and Chartered Professional Review Guidance, Institution of Civil Engineers.

If you are successful

You register as IEng MICE or CEng MICE. A successful CPR or CIPR with ICE also carries the title Chartered Civil Engineer or Chartered Infrastructure Engineer.

Two things worth doing in the following weeks, neither of them ceremonial:

Keep your CPD going. Professional Commitment includes planning, carrying out and recording CPD to maintain and enhance competence in your own area of practice. That obligation does not end at registration, and ICE's expectation of around 30 hours of effective learning a year continues.

Consider being on the other side of it. Sponsoring, mentoring, becoming an SCE or eventually a reviewer are all things the profession relies on and is generally short of. Engaging with ICE activities is itself an attribute — it does not stop being one once you have passed.

If you are not successful

It is a difficult letter to read, and the useful response is not immediate. Some things that help:

Read the comments twice, a week apart. The first reading is emotional and you will not take it in. The second is where the information is.

Take them to your lead sponsor. ICE expects this — the comments exist partly so you can discuss them with your lead sponsor and with ICE staff who can help you prepare for a future review.

Separate the causes. Reviewers' comments usually point at one of three different things, and they need different responses: evidence that was not there (get the experience), evidence that was there but not visible in the report (rewrite), or evidence that was there and not defended well on the day (practise).

Do not conclude the reviewers were wrong. Sometimes candidates are unlucky. Far more often the comments identify something real that a sponsor could have spotted earlier. Starting from "what did they see that I did not" is more productive than starting from "they misunderstood me".

Reading reviewers' comments usefully

  1. Is this comment about missing experience, invisible evidence, or the day itself?

    The three need completely different responses, and the comments usually say which if you read them with that question in mind.

  2. What did they see that I did not?

    A more productive starting point than deciding they misunderstood you. Sometimes they did — but far more often the comment identifies something a sponsor could have spotted earlier.

  3. Have I discussed this with my lead sponsor?

    ICE expects it, and it is much harder to classify your own failure honestly than someone else's.

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