How to take an SEO certification exam?

SEO Jungle certifications are theoretical exams organized into levels, themselves split into themed exams. There's no content to study beforehand: learning happens directly by taking the exams. Here's how to progress, from the first exam all the way to the final certificate.

Levels and exams

Each certification level groups together several themed exams. You must pass every exam in a level before moving on to the next one, then pass all the exams to unlock the level above. If you don't yet have access to a given certification, you can request early access directly from the interface.

The exam format

To start an exam for a given topic, you need at least one life available: each attempt uses one up.

1. You start with 4 lives. Once you're at 0, they regenerate automatically after 30 days, or you can buy them individually or in packs of 4.
2. The exam's questions are shown one at a time, each with a 30-second timer.
3. Depending on the question, either a single answer or several answers are expected: to score points, you must check exactly the correct answers, no more, no less.
4. Leaving the tab during the exam triggers an anti-cheating warning. Abandoning the exam ends it immediately: you lose the life used, and the exam may not be counted as passed.

The passing threshold and the certificate

Your score is the percentage of correct answers out of all the exam's questions. An exam is considered passed from 80% correct answers onward. Below that, you can retry the exam using a new life, and only your best score is kept.

Once every exam in a level is passed with 80% or more, the corresponding certification is earned. You can then download your certificate in PDF format (your name, the level, your score out of 100, and an expiry date set one year after you earned it), share it on social networks, and it becomes publicly verifiable via a dedicated link. Completing a full level unlocks access to the next certification level.

To see how this progression by levels and exams ties in with your overall activity on the platform, head over to our article on certification levels and exams. And as with any jungle expedition, it's better to move exam by exam than to charge ahead and burn through your remaining lives.