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An Equip assessment is a set of tests that candidates attempt one by one. When you build an assessment, you choose from nine test types, each designed for a different skill. This page describes every type so you can pick the right combination for your role.

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Available Test Types

These are the test types you can add from the Tests tab when creating an assessment, listed in the order they appear in the builder. An assessment can contain any number of tests, and you can combine types freely.
Desktop-only test types show a Desktop Only badge to candidates, so they know in advance to use a laptop or desktop computer.

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Equip Content vs My Content

Every test type offers two sources of questions: Equip Content, the pre-built question library, and My Content, custom tests you author yourself. You can mix both freely within one assessment.
Equip Content is the fastest way to launch: questions are battle-tested and matched to the candidate’s experience level. Choose custom content when you need full control over questions, points, and timers. See Equip Content vs Custom Content for a full comparison.
Quizzes also come in two display modes: one-by-one (a single question per screen, which is how Equip’s own quizzes always work) and all-at-once (every question on one page, available for custom quizzes). See Quiz Display Modes for how each behaves.

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How Each Test Type Is Graded

Most test types are scored automatically the moment a candidate submits. A few need a human reviewer, and two never count towards the overall score. Psychometric tests are subjective, so they carry no points and their results appear as a personality graph instead. The Typing Test reports speed and accuracy, but its weightage is fixed at 0, so neither type affects the overall score.
Within a custom quiz, a few question types such as short-text answers, single-line inputs, and voice inputs are graded manually even though the quiz itself is mostly auto-graded. A submission’s overall score stays marked as ungraded until you grade every pending test. See Grading Tests for the workflow.

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Choosing the Right Mix

An assessment maps to a role, and the best assessments combine two or three complementary test types rather than relying on a single one. When you create an assessment, you can also enter the role and years of experience, and Equip suggests tests and skills at the appropriate difficulty automatically.
Keep the assessment as short as the role allows. Candidates attempt tests one at a time, and each test a candidate starts costs 1 credit, so a focused two-test or three-test assessment usually beats a long one. See How Credits Work for details.
Want to see a test type in action before adding it? Every type has an unproctored demo you can try yourself; real assessments are proctored. See Demo Tests.