Competency Pass-Off

Purpose

The pass-off is a short meeting with the instructor or TA where you show you can perform, explain, and adapt an entire competency. Contracts and peer reviews focus on individual slices. The pass-off is where you bring those slices together.

Contract  →  Peer review (each slice)  →  Instructor/TA pass-off (whole competency)  →  Tracker updated

Before you request a pass-off

Check every item:

• Every slice of the competency has been reviewed with a peer (see Peer Contract Review).
• Your review records show no unresolved gaps, or you have addressed them.
• Your work runs and you can show it.
• You can explain the important decisions from every slice in your own words.
• You have tests or verification results from across the competency.
• You can describe at least one challenge and how you solved it.
• Your Competency Progress Tracker is up to date.

What to bring

• Links to the contracts and review records for each slice
• The working artifacts, pages, or code
• Tests, screenshots, or notes that verify the results
• One challenge, one success, and one important decision from across the slices

What happens in the meeting

The instructor or TA may ask you to:

• connect two or more slices in the same workflow,
• explain the relevant code or design,
• demonstrate representative behavior,
• show tests or verification results,
• describe a challenge and its solution,
• make a small change,
• predict what happens in an edge case, or
• diagnose a deliberately introduced small problem.

Questions stay connected to the competency and the slices you reviewed. The goal is not to surprise you with unrelated material.

Possible results

Result	Meaning
Passed	You demonstrated and explained the competency and handled the variation.
Pass with next step	The competency is demonstrated, and there is one small follow-up to complete.
Not yet	A slice or a connection between slices is missing. Choose the smallest next step and schedule another attempt when ready.

“Not yet” is useful feedback, not a failure of the course.

After the meeting

1. Record the result in your Competency Progress Tracker.
2. Write down the next step.
3. Use that evidence to choose your next contract.