How we score your interview answers
Short answer
The English Interview Readiness Score is a number from 0 to 100 that estimates how ready your interview answers are. An AI model scores each answer against a written rubric that puts what you say — a real example, what you did, the result — ahead of perfect English. It is an estimate, not a test certificate or a hiring decision.
What one answer is scored on
Each answer is read as text: what you typed, or the transcript of what you said. The scorer is told to weight the evidence far above the English — substance first, delivery second. An answer with a real situation, a clear personal action and a stated result can score well even when the grammar is not perfect.
The answer is scored on four layers, each from 0 to 100:
- Content: Does it answer the question? Is there a clear order (situation, action, result), a specific detail only you could give, and a result?
- Delivery: How clearly the words communicate: easy to follow, in a sensible order, not too long. Small grammar mistakes should not pull this below 40 when the meaning is clear.
- Soft skills: The behaviour the answer shows for this kind of job — for example teamwork, care for customers or patients, responsibility, or willingness to learn.
- Employer fit: Whether the answer shows what an employer for this role is likely to need, such as reliability and safety, and avoids red flags like blaming others. Your first language and your country do not count here.
How the parts add up
Separately from the four layers, the answer gets a content score and a delivery score. In the combined figure, content counts for 60% and delivery for 40%, because for people speaking English as a second language what they say matters more than how perfectly they say it.
The four layers also decide your first fix. The report points to the weakest layer, adjusted for how quickly that kind of gap can usually be closed before an interview, so the first thing you work on is one you can change.
How one interview becomes one score
The full readiness check asks 3 to 5 questions. Your score is built from the answers that were really measured, not from your last answer alone:
- Three or more answers: the score is the middle value (the median), so one very good or very bad answer cannot decide it.
- Two answers: the score is the average of the two.
- One answer: the result is shown as one-answer evidence, not as your interview readiness.
- Not counted: warm-up small talk and the part where you ask the interviewer questions. An answer the scorer could not measure is shown as "not measured", never as zero.
- A steady trend: if every answer was better (or worse) than the one before, the score moves at most 5 points towards your latest answer.
- One very weak answer: if your lowest answer scores 40 or less and is at least 25 points below your middle score, the report names it, and it can lower the score by at most 12 points.
How sure the score is
Each result says how much evidence is behind it: early (one or two answers), moderate (three answers), or established (four or more answers that agree with each other). Across sessions, your headline score comes from your real answers, never from a self-assessment quiz when a real answer exists, and it is the middle of your last three scored answers so one session cannot swing it.
What the score does not measure
- Your accent. The scorer reads text and is told never to judge accent.
- How confident your voice sounds. The scorer receives text, not audio, so vocal confidence and pronunciation are left out of the score.
- Whether your English is "native". English clarity means whether a listener could follow you, not whether you sound like a native speaker.
- Whether you will get the job. No practice score can know what a real employer will decide.
How the feedback is written
The same AI model that scores the answer also writes the feedback. It uses the context you choose — your role, interview stage, target country, English level and first language — and returns one strength with evidence from your answer, one thing to fix with a better way to say it, a tip about your first language when it notices a pattern, and a clearer version of your answer that keeps only your own facts.
Feedback for lower English levels is written in simpler English. It uses careful language such as "an interviewer may notice", because it cannot know what a real interviewer will think.
The limits
The score is an estimate, not a test certificate or a hiring decision. It is not a CEFR certificate and should not be shown to an employer as one. AI scoring can be wrong, and the same answer can score a little differently on another attempt. Use the score to see what to fix next and to track your own progress, not as a prediction. It does not guarantee an interview, a job, an offer or a visa.
What happens to your answers
Your answer text is sent to our AI providers for scoring, without your name or email. Under their API terms it is not used to train their models. If you speak, the audio is turned into text and then discarded — we keep the transcript and your scores so you can see your progress. You can ask us to delete your data at any time.
- Privacy policy — the full details, including how long data is kept
- AI transparency — how AI is used across the app
Questions people ask
Is the English Interview Readiness Score an official English test?
No. It is an estimate of how ready your interview answers are, made by an AI model against a written rubric. It is not a test certificate and not a CEFR level.
Will a low score stop me getting a job?
No. Employers do not see your practice score unless you choose to share it. It is there to show you what to fix next before your real interview.
Does my accent lower my score?
No. The scorer reads the text of your answer and is told never to judge accent. Clear meaning matters more than perfect grammar.
Why did my score change when I answered again?
AI scoring varies a little between attempts, and a new answer may include more or less evidence. That is why a full interview uses the middle of several answers instead of one.
See your own score
Start with one answer for a first look, or answer 3 to 5 questions for a readiness score with its reasoning and a next step. Free to start, no card needed.