Applying for your next role
Preparation built around the advert you are actually applying for
Not every move is up a rank. Search, roads, intelligence, training, planning: these posts are won on the criteria in their own advert, not on generic board practice. Upload the advert and your questions, reviews and application feedback are built around that post. For serving officers at every rank, Constable to Chief Inspector. £69.99, one payment, 60 days.
One payment, no subscription
£69.99 for 60 days of preparation built around the post you are applying for.
Get started- 1Upload the advert. Paste the text, or send the PDF or a photo. We read out the criteria, responsibilities and specialist areas.
- 2Check your application. Paste your draft expression of interest and see, criterion by criterion, where a panel would find gaps.
- 3Practise against that post. Your board questions are set in that role's world, at the rank of the post, marked against the CVF.
Job adverts are usually public documents. Please do not upload anything protectively marked.
We will never write your application
Not a paragraph, not even a phrase you could paste in. The review shows you which criteria your evidence already reaches and where a panel cannot yet see it, then describes the shape a stronger example would take. The words stay yours, which is the only way they survive an interview about them.
What you get
- 30 AI Board Reviews, scored against the CVF 2024 at the rank of the post
- Person spec verdicts on your reviews, showing how your answers land against the advert
- Application and sift review: your draft read against every criterion, red, amber or green, using the same 30 review credits
- 90 practice questions at the rank of the post, shaped by the advert you upload
- 100 rounds of coaching on your answers as you build them
- 5 STANCE presentation builds
- Up to 3 saved adverts, so you can prepare for more than one post
The voiced Mock Board is not part of this plan. It is calibrated for promotion boards and lives on our Gold plan, so if the voiced panel is what you want, take a look at Gold. Your board answers are scored against the CVF 2024 at the rank of the post, exactly as they are for promotion candidates, and the application and sift review is read against the advert’s own criteria.
What this is not
We cannot tell you whether you will pass a sift. Forces score applications differently and none of them publish their marking, so any tool claiming to replicate it is guessing. What we do is show you where a panel reading your application will struggle to find the evidence, which is the part you can act on.
We are also not affiliated with any force, and the advert you upload is yours alone. It is used to shape your own practice and nobody else’s.
State6 was built by two serving UK police officers, a Superintendent and an Inspector with 38 years across four forces, because good officers were failing processes they should have passed. The same marking that prepares officers for their promotion boards is what reads your answers here.
Going for promotion instead? See the promotion plans.