250 practice scenarios
Casper ethics questions: how to answer them
Ethics questions ask what you do when the easy path and the honest path split: a friend shares leaked exam questions, a supervisor wants inconvenient data dropped, family asks you to bend the truth. Raters look for someone who sees the issue, weighs who is affected and acts with integrity without being self-righteous.
How to answer a Casper ethics question
- 1
Say what the problem is, plainly
Name it in a sentence: removing valid results to get the answer you wanted is misrepresenting the data. Raters cannot credit an issue you never state.
- 2
Find out what you do not know
Ask before you accuse. Is there a legitimate reason to exclude those samples? Did they know it was against the rules? A question first shows fairness.
- 3
Say who is affected
Look past the two people in the room: patients, classmates, customers, the organization. One line on who pays if nothing is done.
- 4
Give your step, then your next step
Say what you would do or say now, in a way that keeps the relationship, and what you would do if the person carries on, including who you would take it to.
A worked example
From Five stars. You help out on weekends at your aunt's new restaurant. Two months after opening, the restaurant is struggling and has almost no reviews online. After closing, you are wiping tables with your aunt and your cousin, Jun.
How would you answer your aunt's request to write fake reviews for the restaurant?
Here is a typical first attempt, scored on the 1–9 scale raters use, and the changes that would raise it.
6.0
This answer scores 6.0 out of 9. With these 3 changes, about 7.5.
I’d tell my aunt I can’t write fake reviews, even though I want to help her. I’d say it wouldn’t be right to mislead customers and that I’d rather ask real customers to share honest feedback.
- 1+0.5
Swap
it wouldn’t be right to mislead customers
forthey mislead customers and could get the restaurant penalized or make people lose trust if they found out
Your original phrase identifies the ethical concern; this addition also explains the concrete risk to your aunt and the restaurant.
- 2+0.5
Swap
ask real customers to share honest feedback
forhelp ask real customers to share honest feedback, maybe by adding a simple reminder to the receipt
This keeps your alternative and makes it easier to picture what you would actually do, rather than leaving the offer broad.
- 3+0.5
Add
I’d also tell Jun I’m concerned about the reviews he posted under different names and encourage him to remove them or check the site’s rules.
Your original answer did not address Jun’s three posts; responding calmly makes your ethical boundary apply to the problem already happening, not only the aunt’s request.
The first attempt is an example written by Confetto, not a real applicant's answer. The score and the changes are from Confetto's Casper coach. Not an official score.
Common mistakes
- Reporting someone straight away without speaking to them or checking the facts.
- Going along with it because "everyone does it" or the person has authority over you.
- Stating a principle ("honesty matters") and stopping there.
Practice ethics questions on the real timers
Answer on the clock and get each answer scored 1–9 the way raters score, with your own answer improved line by line.
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