Does Adelaide University Counselling and Psychotherapy require Casper?

What Acuity lists for Adelaide University Counselling and Psychotherapy

Acuity's note for applicants

This test is for all Postgraduate Counselling and Psychotherapy Courses: -Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy (MCounsPsych), -Graduate Diploma of Counselling and Psychotherapy, -Graduate Certificate of Counselling and Psychotherapy. If you would like to be considered in the September round, you must take any test up to and including the August 6, 2026 test. Please note, you will still be able to take any test even if you would like to be considered in the November round. *SATAC ID (Domestic) - If you do not have a SATAC Registration Number yet, please use 000000000 and update this information in your Acuity Account once you receive it (9 digits long). *APPLICANT ID (International) - This will appear as "UofA INTERNATIONAL APP SYS ID" in the Reservation Page (8 digits long). If you have not yet lodged your application to Adelaide University, please use 00000000 and update this information in your Acuity Account once you receive it. *The email address used for your Casper test must match your SATAC or International Application System application, otherwise your application will not progress further.

Which Casper test to book

Acuity groups programs into test types, and you sit the one your programs belong to. Adelaide University Counselling and Psychotherapy is listed under “Australia Casper 2” for Australia. A Casper score counts for one admissions cycle and one test type, and you cannot sit the same test type twice in a cycle.

17 other programs in Australia are listed under the same test type for 2026–2027, so one sitting can cover any of them too. Some of them:

• Adelaide University, Master of Psychology
• Curtin University, MBBS
• Deakin University - School of Psychology
• Macquarie University - Doctor of Physiotherapy
• Macquarie University - Speech Language Pathology
• Macquarie University Master of Psychology
• Southern Cross Education Institute – Higher Education - Master of Social Work
• University of Melbourne - Doctor of Physiotherapy
• University of Melbourne - Master of Clinical Audiology
• University of Melbourne - Master of Speech Pathology
• University of Melbourne, Postgraduate Veterinary Medicine
• University of Notre Dame, Postgraduate Medicine - Fremantle

What the Casper test is like

Scenarios

11 in total: 4 video-response scenarios first, then 7 typed-response.

Questions

2 for each scenario.

Video answers

A 10-second countdown, then 1 minute recorded for each answer.

Typed answers

3.5 minutes to type both answers for a scenario.

Breaks

Optional breaks during the test.

Scoring

Raters score each response on a 1–9 scale. You only receive a quartile.

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More on Casper

• Casper typing speed

  How many words fit in the 3.5-minute typed section.

• Casper test dates and registration

  How to book, what it costs and which test dates are still open.

• How Casper is scored

  Raters, quartiles and what programs see, from Acuity's own pages.

• Casper video responses

  The 1-minute format, timing rules and how to prepare.