Choose your starting level.
24 guided lessons. Four levels. 200 visual questions. Start with the lessons or go straight to your assessment.
Find your level. Build your next skill.
Four complete trial assessments. Every level has six expanded lessons and 50 visual questions, including sports and entertainment scenarios alongside game cards.
Beginner
Recognise game, sports and entertainment cards, inspect condition and build careful collecting habits.
- Meet the card, not just the character
- Inspect and protect your collection
- Find cards and make fair swaps
- 6 lessons · 50 questions · 80% pass
Intermediate
Identify parallels and signatures, compare listings and make reasoned swaps and bids.
- Parallels and signatures
- Compare listings
- Reasoned swaps and bids
- 6 lessons · 50 questions · 80% pass
Professional
Build auditable evidence, assess authentication scope and evaluate cross-market resale decisions.
- Auditable evidence
- Authentication scope
- Cross-market resale decisions
- 6 lessons · 50 questions · 80% pass
Expert
Investigate one-of-one scarcity, provenance and demand assumptions across the wider card market.
- One-of-one scarcity
- Provenance
- Demand assumptions
- 6 lessons · 50 questions · 80% pass
All four trials are free and independent. Create an account and learner profile before opening any trial. Your progress saves to your account. No payment is required.
Beginner
Know the card
Intermediate
Swaps & bids
Professional
Evidence & resale
Expert
Scarcity & provenance
Certificate
Pass at 80%
Turn your interest in cards into informed decisions.
Whether you are opening your first binder or building on years of collecting, this course helps you understand what you own, what you are buying and what makes a trading opportunity worth investigating.
Identify the card and inspect the copy.
Start with game-card sets, sports-card years and products, editions, rarity, condition and care.
Find evidence, compare markets and plan the trade.
Distinguish rookie claims, numbered parallels, genuine signatures and memorabilia wording.
Test your reasoning before committing money.
Decide when to buy, hold, sell or walk away, with a clear plan.
More than knowing the character.
Learn the details, then apply them to your own research.
Six lessons to get you started.
6 expanded lessons · 6 practice tasks · 6 quick checks · 50 assessment questions
Meet the card, not just the character
Game, name, collector number, set and language.
Inspect and protect your collection
Condition, care and storage.
Understand what a price tells you
Headline prices versus real evidence.
Find cards and make fair swaps
Sourcing and fair trades.
Take your first look at online bidding
Auctions with a clear plan.
Build calm collecting habits
Decide with a clear head.
Have a go at a sample question.
This Charizard ex is from Pokémon 151. The same set also has a Charizard ex numbered 006/165. How do you tell which one you are holding?
The real tests have 50 questions per level, with explanations after you submit.
Your knowledge. Something to show for it.
Pass your course assessment at 80% or above to earn a personalised certificate recording your learner nickname, course and saved result. Print it or save it as a PDF.
Start free trial →Independent course certificate, not an accredited qualification.
Knowledge earned.
Achievement recognised.
80%+
Expert advice for our clients.
The planned service will help clients work through card identification, collection reviews and difficult trading questions alongside their learning.
Planned service · Not yet taking bookingsCard and collection reviews
Discuss exact entries, condition evidence and when professional physical authentication is needed.
Finding special cards
Plan a search through documented releases, local collections, shows and specialist listings.
Trading and holding decisions
Compare sale evidence, liquidity and reasons for a swap or holding decision without promising future gains.
Build a collector’s eye.
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Four learning levels. A free trial for every one. No cards or payment needed.