Assessment and certificate

A certificate is worth what it certifies

Certificates until 31 December 2026

New certificates are issued until 31 December 2026. After that: The lessons, the research and the assessment stay free and open. New certificates stop being issued. Nothing you can read today stops being readable, and nothing behind a certificate is behind a paywall afterwards.

Not a completion badge. 20 questions drawn fresh from a larger bank, covering 7 areas, marked on the server so the answers are never in your browser. 80% to pass. Every question is a situation and a judgement, not a phrase to look up, which is why searching the site while the paper is open does not help much.

Nobody accredits this. It is not a university credential and no employer is obliged to care about it. What it is: evidence that you could tell the four citation outcomes apart, diagnose which of five filters a brand is failing, and say why a blended visibility score is worse than no score. Every certificate has a public page showing the result, so anyone can check it in one click.

What you get

The certificate, and the page anyone can check it on

LearnGEO

Certificate of assessment

This certifies that

Nadia Kern

passed the LearnGEO assessment on Generative Engine Optimization.

Not accredited by any university or awarding body. It records a pass on a 20 question assessment, marked on the server, on the date shown.

Assessment

20 questions, 80% to pass

Issued

4 September 2026

Credential ID

LG-SPECIMEN-0000

Emad Sharaki

Author of the course

A specimen, and the credential ID says so. A real one carries the holder's name and the date, at a public URL of the form learngeo.io/certificate/LG-… which opens for anyone, with no account, and shows the score in each of the 7 areas rather than a single number.

That page is the credential. The image is only its cover: what makes it worth putting on a profile is that somebody can click the ID and see what was actually passed, on what date, and what it did and did not cover.

While it is open

New certificates are issued until 31 December 2026

The lessons, the research and the assessment stay free and open. New certificates stop being issued. Nothing you can read today stops being readable, and nothing behind a certificate moves behind a paywall afterwards.

The course takes about 30 lessons and under two hours of reading. Certificates already issued keep their verification pages, so a date on one will mean something that a later one cannot: that it was earned while this was still being written.

Before you start

Is this certificate accredited?: No. It is not accredited by any body, university or industry association, and nobody should present it as though it were. What it shows is that you passed a 20 question assessment at 80% or above on a stated date, and the verification page for every certificate says exactly that.
What makes it worth anything then?: Three things. The questions are judgement rather than recall, so reading the lessons carefully is the only way through them. The pass mark is 80%, which most people will not reach on a first attempt. And every certificate has a public verification page that anyone can check, showing the score and the areas it covered.
Can I look up the answers while I take it?: You can, and it will not help much. No answer is a phrase that appears on a page: each question describes a situation and asks which diagnosis or decision follows. Somebody who understood the material answers quickly; somebody searching the site is choosing between four plausible-looking options.
What happens if I fail?: Every answer is explained afterwards, right or wrong, with a link to the lesson it came from. Then you can take a new paper. Questions are drawn fresh from a larger bank each time, so retaking is learning rather than memorising.
What do you store about me?: If you pass and give a name, that name, the score and the date. Nothing else: no email, no account, no analytics identity tied to the result. If you leave the name blank you still get the full marked paper and no record is created.
Why is there a closing date for certificates?: Because a certificate is a record somebody may rely on later, and issuing them indefinitely with no review is how a credential quietly stops meaning anything. New certificates stop on 31 December 2026. Everything else stays exactly as it is: the lessons, the research and the assessment remain free to read and free to take, and certificates already issued stay verifiable at their own URLs. Nothing moves behind a paywall.
How long does it take?: About twenty to thirty minutes for the assessment itself. The course it tests is fifteen lessons and roughly 97 minutes of reading, which is the honest number and considerably less than any comparable course claims.

Written and marked by Emad Sharaki. The questions are drawn from the fifteen published lessons and from the measurement in the research section, all of which are free to read before, during and after.

A certificate is worth what it certifies

Certificates until 31 December 2026

The certificate, and the page anyone can check it on

LearnGEO

Certificate of assessment

This certifies that

Nadia Kern

passed the LearnGEO assessment on Generative Engine Optimization.

Not accredited by any university or awarding body. It records a pass on a 20 question assessment, marked on the server, on the date shown.

Assessment

20 questions, 80% to pass

Issued

4 September 2026

Credential ID

LG-SPECIMEN-0000

Emad Sharaki

Author of the course

New certificates are issued until 31 December 2026

Before you start

Is this certificate accredited?

No. It is not accredited by any body, university or industry association, and nobody should present it as though it were. What it shows is that you passed a 20 question assessment at 80% or above on a stated date, and the verification page for every certificate says exactly that.

What makes it worth anything then?

Three things. The questions are judgement rather than recall, so reading the lessons carefully is the only way through them. The pass mark is 80%, which most people will not reach on a first attempt. And every certificate has a public verification page that anyone can check, showing the score and the areas it covered.

Can I look up the answers while I take it?

You can, and it will not help much. No answer is a phrase that appears on a page: each question describes a situation and asks which diagnosis or decision follows. Somebody who understood the material answers quickly; somebody searching the site is choosing between four plausible-looking options.

What happens if I fail?

Every answer is explained afterwards, right or wrong, with a link to the lesson it came from. Then you can take a new paper. Questions are drawn fresh from a larger bank each time, so retaking is learning rather than memorising.

What do you store about me?

If you pass and give a name, that name, the score and the date. Nothing else: no email, no account, no analytics identity tied to the result. If you leave the name blank you still get the full marked paper and no record is created.

Why is there a closing date for certificates?

Because a certificate is a record somebody may rely on later, and issuing them indefinitely with no review is how a credential quietly stops meaning anything. New certificates stop on 31 December 2026. Everything else stays exactly as it is: the lessons, the research and the assessment remain free to read and free to take, and certificates already issued stay verifiable at their own URLs. Nothing moves behind a paywall.

How long does it take?

About twenty to thirty minutes for the assessment itself. The course it tests is fifteen lessons and roughly 97 minutes of reading, which is the honest number and considerably less than any comparable course claims.