If you are a registered centre for Certificates of Competence, you will have received a copy of the EPT CD-ROM for the current series.

On inserting the disc a menu will appear. If your CD-ROM does not auto-run then click on the Start button and select Run. Type in ‘D:\autorun.exe’ (where D is your CD-ROM drive) and press enter. The CD will now run.

You should then see a link to the general documentation as per your administrative notes and links to the documentation specific to the current External Practical Tasks on the front menu.

When you click on the relevant External Practical Task link it will take you to the documentation for that task. Each of the documents on the Practical Task menus is password protected. (Please see below for current passwords.)

To open a password protected document click on the relevant file. This will open a password prompt. Choose which folder you would like to save the file to (click on the button for your choice of folders), then type in the password and click on GO! The file will instantly save to your chosen folder. (Please note that you cannot save your opened file to the CD-ROM as it is Read Only.) Once you have opened and saved all of the files you need you are ready to test your students.

The password for the DTP Task is:

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