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Previews are free and unlimited for you and your whole team. Inviting anyone, including yourself, deducts credits like a normal candidate attempt. Preview first, invite later.

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Recruiter Preview vs Candidate Preview

Once you create an assessment, a Preview link appears on your dashboard. Existing assessments also show a Preview button at the top of the Assessment Settings page.
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Open your assessment

Go to the Assessments Dashboard and locate the assessment you want to check.
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Click Preview

Use the preview link on the dashboard, or open the assessment’s settings and click Preview at the top.
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Choose a preview mode

Pick As a Recruiter for a quick look, or As a Candidate for the full candidate experience.
The two modes serve different purposes:
Use As a Candidate at least once before sharing an assessment widely. It surfaces everything a candidate will encounter, including permission prompts and test order.

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Sample Questions in Previews

The questions you see while previewing depend on the test type and whether the test uses Equip’s content or your own. For Equip-content quizzes, previews draw from a separate Sample Question Bank rather than the real one. Sample questions are matched to the same skill and difficulty you configured, so they are representative of what candidates will face. This protection exists because anyone can self-onboard a team on Equip. Showing real quiz questions in previews would let people harvest the question bank and compromise test integrity.
If the Sample Question Bank has fewer questions than you configured, your preview shows fewer questions. For example, if you added 10 Medium-level Python MCQs but only 5 samples exist, you preview 5. Candidates still see all 10, because being allowed to select 10 during creation means the real bank has at least 10.
The only way to see the real Equip quiz questions is to invite yourself as a candidate, and that deducts credits from your account. If you need full visibility into questions, consider a custom quiz instead.

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Unlocking Locked Questions

When you create an account, Equip-content quizzes let you add up to 4 questions per skill, per difficulty level. For example, for the Python skill you can add 4 Medium, 4 Hard, and 4 Expert questions. To add more than 4, purchase at least 25 credits in a single transaction. This unlocks up to 10 questions per skill per difficulty level.
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Purchase 25 or more credits

Make a single purchase of at least 25 credits. The credits never expire and are used only for candidate assessments.
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Return to the assessment builder

Open the Tests tab of your assessment and increase the question count for the skills you need.
This limit exists so that people cannot create free accounts just to browse Equip’s question database. It applies narrowly:
Each Equip-content quiz also has an overall cap of 25 questions. If you need more, add a second quiz to the same assessment.