Scoring — Multipliers & Dimensions
How question scoring works — point multipliers, negative multipliers, and assigning competency dimensions.
Scoring in TestInvite works in two steps: first the candidate’s response produces a success rate (between -100% and 100%), then that success rate is multiplied by the question’s point multiplier to produce the final score.
Positive Multiplier
The positive multiplier is the maximum number of points the question is worth. A candidate who answers perfectly (100% success rate) earns this many points. A candidate who is partially correct earns a proportional amount. For example: 80% success rate × 5 points = 4 points.
Negative Multiplier
If the success rate is negative — meaning the candidate selected more wrong answers than right ones — the negative multiplier is applied instead. This is used to penalize guessing. Set the negative multiplier to 0 if you do not want any penalty for wrong answers.
Dimensions
A dimension is a named competency or skill area that a question measures — for example “Verbal Reasoning”, “JavaScript”, or “Leadership”. Assigning a dimension to a question means the candidate’s success rate on that question also contributes to the dimension’s score in the result report.
Each dimension has its own multiplier, so you can weight different dimensions differently. For example, a question tagged with “JavaScript” with a dimension multiplier of 3 contributes 3 points to the JavaScript dimension score for a perfect answer.
You can type a dimension name directly in the editor — you do not need to pre-define it in the Scoring Framework. However, using the Scoring Framework to pre-define a hierarchy of dimensions ensures consistency across your entire question bank.
A question can be assigned to multiple dimensions simultaneously. Each dimension’s score is calculated independently using the same success rate but its own multiplier.