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Use Equip Content when you want a ready-made, curated assessment in seconds. Use My Content (Custom Tests) when you need full control over questions, points, timers, and the candidate experience. You can mix both in the same assessment.
Every test type in the assessment builder offers two sources of questions: Equip Content, drawn from Equip’s pre-built question banks, and My Content, which is any Custom Test you create yourself.

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What Is Equip Content

Equip Content is Equip’s own library of curated questions, organized by skill and difficulty. You pick a skill and an experience level, and Equip assembles the test for you, so you can create a complete assessment in seconds without writing a single question. Equip Content is built for fairness and integrity:
  • Quiz questions are randomized per candidate: each candidate gets different questions from a large pool, in a shuffled order, with shuffled options. See Same or Random Questions.
  • Quiz questions stay hidden from recruiters, both during creation and in results, so the question bank cannot leak. See Why You Cannot See Quiz Questions.
  • Timers, points, and negative marking are fixed. Equip has tuned them to identify the best candidates fairly, and they cannot be changed. Proctoring settings, however, can be adjusted even on Equip Content.
For non-quiz Equip Content, such as Programming and SQL challenges, you can select the exact question and see it in candidate results. The hidden-question policy applies only to Equip quizzes.

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What Is My Content

My Content refers to Custom Tests: tests you build with your own questions, across every test type, Quiz, Coding Challenge, Video Response, Question Bank, and Question Bank Quiz. You create them from the Custom Tests section in the sidebar of the Assessments Dashboard, then add them to any assessment.
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Create a Custom Test

Open Custom Tests from the Assessments Dashboard sidebar, choose a test type, add your questions, and save.
2

Open your assessment

Go to the assessment’s settings. The Tests tab opens by default.
3

Select the test type

Pick the matching test type on the left, for example Video Response.
4

Add your content

Click the Add button, then choose My Content and select your Custom Test.
Custom Tests give you control that Equip Content does not:
  • Write your own questions across 15 question types, from MCQs to Cloze, Comprehension, and Voice Input. See Custom Quiz Question Types.
  • Set points and optional negative marking per question.
  • Set time limits per question or per test, and switch between one-by-one and all-at-once display modes.
  • See every question and every response a candidate submitted.
Custom Tests belong to your whole team. Teammates can view, edit, and reuse them across multiple assessments.

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When to Use Each

Here is how the two options compare, feature by feature.
Neither option supports a single timer for the whole assessment. Candidates can take breaks between tests, so time limits apply at the test or question level instead.
Choose Equip Content when speed and reliability matter most. The questions are highly curated, and the fixed timer settings are designed to keep results fair and comparable across candidates. Choose Custom Content when the role demands questions specific to your company, or when you need control over points, timers, display modes, or full visibility into what each candidate answered.
You do not have to pick one. An assessment can freely combine Equip Content and Custom Tests, for example an Equip quiz for screening plus a custom Video Response test for role-specific questions.
Custom coding challenges are easy to get wrong: a small mistake in test cases or boilerplate can mark every submission incorrect. For Programming and SQL, Equip strongly recommends its own questions, which are battle-tested by thousands of candidates. See Issues with Custom Coding Challenges.