Verified certificates: share your score with a QR code
Pass a mock test inside its time limit and the certificate issues itself, free, with an ID and a QR code anyone can check. How verification works and what the certificate does not claim.
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A certificate is only worth something if the person reading it can check it. Most practice certificates fail that test — they are a PDF with a name typed into it, and a reader has no way to tell a real one from one that was edited in a photo app. So the useful part of ours is not the certificate. It is the verification page behind it.
How you get one
Three things have to be true
There is no form to fill in. Pass inside the time and the rest happens on its own.
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Sit it within the time limit
A certificate only comes from a timed attempt. Running past the clock still scores the paper; it just does not certify it.
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Pass
Clear the pass mark for that exam. The grade on the certificate follows the percentage you reached: Distinction, Merit or Pass.
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It issues itself
No application, no waiting, no fee. The certificate appears in your account with its ID and QR code already on it.
It is free on every exam that issues one, including the free sets. There is no charge to issue, download, verify or share a certificate, and no version of the product where there is.
A paper in exam mode. The countdown is what makes the attempt certifiable.
Pass inside the time and the certificate is waiting when you finish.
What verification actually does
Scan the QR code, or type the ID at verify.ismartexams.com, and a page opens showing the name, the exam, the grade and the date. Nothing on that page is read from the copy being shown to the reader — it comes from our records. That distinction is the whole point.
How a certificate is checked
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Scan or type
The QR code on the certificate, or the ID typed into verify.ismartexams.com.
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Looked up
The ID is matched against our records, not against anything in the file.
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Status today
Valid, with name, exam, grade and date — or Revoked, from the moment it was withdrawn.
The certificate carries an ID and a QR code. Scanning it opens verify.ismartexams.com, which looks the ID up in our records and displays the current status: valid, with the name, exam, grade and date, or revoked.
Two consequences follow from serving the status rather than the document. An edited PDF fails, because the ID either does not exist or returns different details from the ones on the page the reader is holding. And a withdrawn certificate reads Revoked from the moment it is withdrawn — if a certificate was issued in error, or the result behind it does not stand, our staff can revoke it, and anyone checking afterwards sees the current status rather than the status on the day it was printed.
Getting better does not create a second certificate
Sit the same exam again and do better and the existing certificate is upgraded in place. The percentage and the grade update; the ID stays the same. A link you shared with an employer last month shows the improved result today, and you are not left managing a folder of near-duplicates with different numbers on them.
Five passes, one certificate
Once you have passed five or more exams you can take a single combined certificate covering the set. The overall figure is your total marks divided by the total marks available across those exams — so a fifty-question paper counts for more than a twenty-question one. It is not an average of percentages, which would quietly treat a short set and a full paper as equals.
What it is not
This matters more than anything above, so it is worth being blunt about. The certificate is issued by iSmartExams and it certifies one thing: that you passed one of our practice tests, within the time, at the percentage shown.
What it shows
- The exam you sat and when
- Your score and percentage
- Distinction, Merit or Pass
- That the attempt was inside the time limit
- A status a reader can check for themselves
What it is not
- Not a JLPT, IELTS, TOPIK, HSK or Goethe result
- Not issued by any exam board
- Not a licence or a qualification
- Not accepted in place of the real exam
- Not evidence of anything except preparation
What it is good for is showing preparation you have actually done, to somebody who is deciding whether you are ready — a consultancy, an employer asking what you have been doing, an institute placing you in a class. In one tap it adds to LinkedIn as a certification with the verification link attached, and it downloads as a PDF for an application folder.
Frequently asked questions
- Does it cost anything?
- No. Certificates are free on every exam that issues them, including the free ones, and there is no fee to issue, download, verify or share one.
- Can someone check a certificate without an account?
- Yes. verify.ismartexams.com is open to anyone — no login, no app. That is the only way a certificate is useful to the person reading it.
- Can a certificate be withdrawn?
- Yes. If one was issued in error or the result behind it is not sound, our staff can revoke it, and the verification page says Revoked from that moment — even if a printed copy still says otherwise.
- Will an employer or a college accept this?
- As evidence of practice, that is up to them. As a substitute for an official result, no, and we would not want it treated as one. It says iSmartExams on it and the verification page says plainly that it certifies a practice test.
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