Guide

Creating anAssessment

How to choose questions, set weightage, and publish an assessment in TestHike.

Choose your questions

Every assessment is a set of questions — coding, multiple-choice, or written — pulled from the built-in question library, written custom for your organization, or a mix of both. Custom coding tasks can be built around your own codebase, frameworks, and engineering standards, which is the closest thing to a real day-one task a candidate can complete.

Set weightage

Every question in an assessment gets a weightage — the percentage of the final score it contributes. All the weightages in an assessment must add up to exactly 100% before you can publish it; the dashboard shows a live total as you add and adjust questions, so you'll always know if you're under or over before you try to save.

How each question type is scored

  • Coding— the share of test cases the submission passes, multiplied by the question's weightage.
  • Multiple-choice— correct or incorrect, multiplied by the question's weightage.
  • Written— scored manually by a reviewer, then multiplied by the question's weightage. It contributes zero until scored.

The final result is the sum of every weighted question score, recalculated automatically whenever a score changes — including after a written question is reviewed.

Decide on activity information and session locking

For real, scored assessments, you can configure which activity information is recorded — focus changes, clipboard use, connected displays, and running processes — and whether the session runs in a locked, kiosk-style window. Mock assessments skip this entirely.

Publish and invite

Once weightage totals 100% and your settings are confirmed, publish the assessment and send invite codes to candidates or students. See The Candidate Experience for what happens next on their end.