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Most tests on Equip are graded automatically the moment a candidate submits. A few question and test types, such as video responses and CSS challenges, wait for you: they show an ungraded label until you award points, and the candidate’s overall score stays ungraded until every test is graded.
How a test is graded depends on its test type and the question types inside it.

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Auto-Graded Tests

Auto-graded tests are scored by Equip as soon as the candidate submits.
Psychometric tests carry no points and are excluded from the overall score. Candidates get a personality graph instead; see Psychometric Scores.

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Grading by quiz question type

Within a quiz, grading depends on the question type. Auto-graded question types include:
  • MCQ (single correct answer)
  • MCA (multiple correct answers)
  • Categorize
  • Transcription
  • Autograded Text (exact-match expected answer)
These quiz question types are graded manually by the recruiter:
  • Voice Input
  • Short Text (essay-style answers)
  • Single-line Input
MCQs in Equip’s own quiz content always carry negative marking, and it cannot be turned off. For custom quizzes, it is optional. See Negative Marking.

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AI-Graded Answers

For AI-graded questions, Equip’s AI evaluates the response and assigns points. This applies to open-ended text, audio, and video answers in AI-graded tests and AI interviews. You can steer the evaluation with an optional per-question AI evaluation prompt, and with test-level evaluation context that applies to the whole test.
AI scores are not final. Open any response and adjust the awarded points manually. See AI-Graded Questions for setup details.

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Manually Graded Tests

Two test types always need a recruiter to grade them: Video Response tests and CSS Challenges. Quizzes containing Voice Input, Short Text, or Single-line Input questions also need a manual pass for those questions.

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Finding ungraded submissions

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Open the assessment results

Tests that still need grading are labeled ungraded.
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Filter with Show Ungraded

Use the Show Ungraded filter on the Dashboard to list every submission that still needs grading.
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Grade each pending question

Review the candidate’s response, then click the pencil icon to assign points.
Data Analyst assessment results filtered with Submitted set to Yes and Score Finalized set to No, listing two candidates whose Data Analyst quiz score and overall score are both marked Ungraded

Set Score Finalized to No to list submissions that still need grading, each marked Ungraded

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Editing points after grading

Wherever you see the pencil icon, you can change the points for a question, even if it was already graded automatically or manually.
When you change a question’s points, Equip recalculates the test score and the candidate’s overall score automatically. Weightages you set in the Test Order tab still apply; see Test Scores and Overall Score for how the overall score is computed.
For step-by-step walkthroughs of grading video responses and CSS challenges, see Manual Grading.