Scoring

Scoring in TestInvite can be as simple or as advanced as your assessment needs. At its simplest, a test's score comes from nothing but each question's success rate and weight, rolled up through pages and sections — and for most tests, that's the whole story. From there, you can optionally layer on competency dimensions and behavioral effects, and choose how open-ended answers get their success rate in the first place. You never need more than the simple pipeline unless your assessment calls for it.

Point Scoring

Every question is evaluated to a success rate, then multiplied by the question's positive or negative multiplier (its weight) to produce points. Those points roll straight up the structure the test is built from — page, then section, then test — and the total is shown as a percentage, not a raw number.

This is the entire pipeline for the majority of tests: no dimensions, no effects, nothing else required. See Point Scoring for exactly how success rate and weight combine, the full roll-up, and a worked example.

Associated Dimensions

Associated Dimensions let you measure scores per competency, not just overall. You associate a question with one or more competencies it measures, and its success rate is credited to each of them. Score 80% on a Verbal Reasoning question, and Verbal Reasoning is credited with 80% too — automatically. Use this whenever you want a competency breakdown alongside the test score. See Associated Dimensions.

Scored Dimensions

While Associated Dimensions map a question to a competency such that a successful response also means a successful competency score, Scored Dimensions behave differently: each competency is judged independently for the same response, instead of inheriting one shared success rate. An essay might score 80% on Structure and 40% on Vocabulary for the very same answer — each dimension scored on its own merits. The question's overall success rate can then be derived from those dimension scores. Use this when one response measures several different things at once, like an essay or an interview answer. See Scored Dimensions.

Effects

Effects are not driven by success rate at all. A specific answer choice or pairing can be tagged with a named score, and picking it adds to that tally regardless of whether the choice was correct — suited to personality or behavioral profiling rather than correctness-based scoring. Effects can combine with any other scoring line: a question can be scored normally for correctness and tag its choices with effects for a completely separate, secondary read. See Effects for the full mechanism.

Always run a question through Preview & Scoring Simulation after setting up multipliers, dimensions, or a rubric — it's the fastest way to catch a scoring mistake before a candidate does.

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