The flagship feature
Sit a full AI mock police promotion board
The only AI mock promotion board built for UK policing. A voiced chair asks the questions out loud, listens, probes what you actually said and marks it against the framework your board uses. Sit it cold with fresh rank-calibrated questions, or rehearse the questions behind your own saved answers. You walk out with a full written debrief.
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60 sec trailerHear the board for yourself
A voiced question, the probe and the scored debrief. With sound.
What the board scores
Marked against the framework your board uses, with a full written debrief
This is far more than a tick in a box. Every answer earns a whole-number mark the way a real marking sheet awards it, and so does the board overall. Then you get a written debrief that tells you exactly where the marks went and what to fix.
A real board mark, not a vibe
Every answer is scored a whole number the way a real marking sheet awards it. For the 42 Home Office forces that use the CVF that means one to five against the CVF 2024. The Met runs its own model, so for Met candidates it means one to four on the potential scale, marked against the future-focused evidence Met boards listen for. Either way, the whole board gets an overall mark with a verdict phrase such as tracking at pass standard.
Rank calibration that bites
An answer pitched below your target rank is capped, however polished it sounds. Sergeant is judged on first-line management, Inspector on managing sergeants and resourcing across teams, Chief Inspector on managing managers at force level.
Point-by-point breakdown
Each marking point for your force's framework, CVF descriptors for most forces or the Met's five potential indicators, is rated as demonstrated, partial or not demonstrated with a short line of evidence, shown as an expandable breakdown so you see precisely what landed.
STARR and PEEL, named
Each answer gets a one-sentence verdict against the framework it should follow, STARR for past experience and PEEL for forward-facing questions, naming what was present and what was missing.
Credit for what you did
The board counts your use of I against we and us, because a panel can only score the individual. Collective language that hides your own contribution is marked down, and how you held up under the probe is scored too.
Pace, fillers and timing
It measures your speaking time, your pace in words per minute and your filler words per minute, highlights every um and er in the word-for-word transcript and notes whether the chair had to stop you. The full debrief auto-saves to My Portfolio.
How the board runs
A real board, on demand
Cold board, or your own questions
A cold board writes fresh rank-calibrated questions you meet in the room, exactly like the real day. Rehearse your questions instead and the panel asks up to five questions from your own saved STARR and PEEL answers, word for word, so you can practise delivering the material you have already built. Both run as a full board and both are marked the same way. Rehearsal runs on the CVF board.
The chair opens and asks aloud
Your chosen chair welcomes you in character, sets out the format and warns that probes may follow, then asks each question out loud. You answer by speaking, not typing.
It listens, then probes
After your answer the chair asks one follow-up probe aimed at something you actually said, a vague claim, a gap or an untested decision, or something you conspicuously left out. A learned script does not survive contact, and a weak probe never sinks the board.
It keeps real board timings
The main answer targets five to six minutes, with an on-screen warning at six and the chair stopping you in character at seven. Probes are tighter. Your timing discipline feeds the score, so you learn to land your evidence inside the window the panel gives you.
Sit it, pause it, resume it
The board is saved as you go, so a refresh, a crash or a dead battery picks up exactly where you left off without spending another credit. Pause lands between questions with the next one sealed, and ending early still scores what you have done. Gold includes five full boards; a rehearsal board uses one credit exactly like a cold one.
Meet the chairs
Four chairs, four very different boards
Each chair has a real voice and a real manner. The persona changes how the board feels and how it probes you, but never the standard. The marking is always your force's model at your rank.
Ch Insp Ellen Reeves
The developer
Voice Warm and encouraging.
Style She lets you settle, keeps you at ease and probes gently with one supportive follow-up that helps you show more of what you did. Never hostile, never patronising. Ideal for your first boards.
“Good morning, do come in and take a seat. There is no rush at all. We will begin whenever you are ready.”
Supt David Okafor
The examiner
Voice Dry and precise.
Style Strictly by the book, no warmth and no hostility. He follows the marking sheet to the letter, and his probes target whatever was vague, unevidenced or unquantified. Short, exact sentences.
“Good morning. We have five questions for you today. Please keep your answers specific, and evidenced. We will begin.”
Ch Supt Margaret Hale
The challenger
Voice Calm and direct.
Style She pushes back on your position with the strongest credible counter argument and expects you to hold your ground. Calm, never rude. Survive Hale and the real thing feels familiar.
“Good morning. I chair this board, and I should tell you now, I will test your answers. If you believe in them, hold your ground.”
DCI Jack Webster
The old school
Voice Gruff and weathered.
Style Thirty years on the front line and no patience for management speak or vagueness. Hide behind we and he wants to know what you personally did. Reach for jargon and he tells you to say it plainly. A straight, honest, evidenced answer earns his respect, and he says so.
“Right. Sit down. Thirty years I've been doing this, so don't try and dazzle me, I've seen it all! No buzzwords, no waffle, and no hiding behind the team. I want what YOU did in plain English, the way you'd tell it in the canteen. Agreed? Come on then. Off we go.”
Metropolitan Police
Going for promotion in the Met? Your board marks differently. So does ours.
The Met's promotion process runs on a future focused interview, scored on a 1 to 4 potential model rather than the CVF. Switch the Mock Board to Met mode and the whole board follows: questions, marking and debrief.
Future focused questions
Met boards ask what you would do, not what you did. The board asks future focused questions built for the Met's interview, grounded in the Met's own HMICFRS findings where they fit.
Marked on the potential model
Your answers are scored one to four on the Met's potential scale, not the CVF, with the five potential indicators rated point by point in the debrief.
Debriefed the Met way
The written debrief speaks the Met's language: potential bands, indicator ratings and an overall board verdict, saved to your portfolio like any other board.
The maths
Five boards for less than half the price of one
A single human mock board costs around £380 for one sitting, on someone else's diary. Gold gives you five for £149.99, plus every other tool on the platform.
Better still, you sit it whenever and wherever you want. It runs in your browser on your own device, on demand, so a late turn, a rest day or a quiet half hour at home all work. For a busy shift worker that means real board practice without booking a thing, and if you get pulled away the board saves and resumes with no credit lost.
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Common questions
Straight answers
How much does a police mock board cost?
A single human mock board costs around £380 for one sitting. State6 Gold includes five AI mock boards for £149.99, with 90 days of access and every other tool on the platform.
Can I practise a police promotion board out loud whenever I want?
Yes. The Mock Board runs in your browser on your own device, on demand, so you can sit a full board on a rest day, after a late turn or in a quiet half hour at home. You speak your answers and a voiced chair listens, probes and scores you. If you are pulled away the board saves and resumes with no credit lost, which suits shift work.
How is the mock board scored?
Every answer earns a whole-number mark the way a real marking sheet awards it: one to five against the CVF 2024 for the 42 Home Office forces that use it, or one to four on the Met's potential model for Met candidates. The board gets an overall mark with a verdict phrase. The written debrief covers answer structure against STARR or PEEL, the point-by-point marking breakdown, your I versus we balance, how you handled the probe, and your pace, filler words and timing. It all saves to My Portfolio with a word-for-word transcript.
Does it work for Met candidates?
Yes. The Met runs its own future focused promotion process rather than the CVF, and the Mock Board has a dedicated Met mode built around it: future focused questions grounded in the Met's own HMICFRS findings, marking on the one to four potential scale, and a debrief rated against the five potential indicators. See the Met promotion page at state6.co.uk/met-police-promotion for the full picture.
Which ranks and forces does it cover?
It covers Sergeant, Inspector and Chief Inspector across all 43 Home Office forces: the CVF board for the 42 forces that use it, and the Met's own process for Met candidates. On a cold board the questions are written calibrated to your target rank, and when enabled your force's HMICFRS inspection picture is woven into a question or two where it fits. On a rehearsal board, which runs on the CVF board, the questions are your own saved ones, asked exactly as written. Either way the marking is calibrated to your rank, and an answer pitched below it is capped.
Start today
Practise the day before the day
Sit a full board out loud, get marked against the framework your board uses and read your debrief, all before you walk in.
Gold includes five boards and every other tool on the platform. Applying for a specific advertised post instead? The Applying for Your Next Role plan includes two rehearsal boards of your own saved answers.
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