How your mock interview is scored

The five dimensions

• Answer Structure. Interviewers listen for Situation, Task, Action, Result. An answer with no concrete outcome reads as an unproven claim. The Result is what separates a story from an assertion.
• Judgment & Problem-Solving. How you reason through a problem: what you check first, when you escalate or ask for help, and why. Sound reasoning under uncertainty is what a scenario question is actually testing.
• Specificity & Evidence. Concrete details prove the experience is real: the project, the numbers, what YOU personally did. Generic "I would" answers score low because anyone can say them.
• Role Relevance. Whether your answers speak to this job, not a job in general. Interviewers are listening for someone who understood what the role actually involves.
• Communication & Presence. Clarity, pacing, and composure. Rambling, trailing off, or losing the thread costs you even when the content underneath is right.

For nursing roles the same five are named for clinical interviews: STAR Structure, Clinical Judgment, Specificity & Evidence, Role Relevance, Communication & Warmth.

Why fixed criteria

Structured interviews, where every candidate is judged against the same criteria, predict job performance better than unstructured ones: a validity of .42 against .19 in the largest recent re-analysis (Sackett, Zhang, Berry and Lievens, Journal of Applied Psychology, 2022). That is why your mock is scored on five fixed things instead of a general impression.

What else is measured

Alongside the five scores, a panel called “How you came across” shows arithmetic on your answers: how long each ran, your speaking pace when you answered out loud, how many filler words you used, hedges such as “I guess” and “probably”, and how often you said “I” against “we”. Each answer is compared only with your own other answers, so it can point to the one you rushed or the one where your voice went flat. These are plain counts, no AI model judges them, and none of them is scored.

The same panel can quote up to three of your own lines that may have helped or hurt you, such as blaming a past manager or talking yourself down. The AI picks them, and each quote is checked word for word against your transcript before you see it.

The timed one-way rehearsal, for recorded video interviews, uses its own rubric built for finance and consulting screens: structure, commercial awareness, ownership, specificity and concision, plus how you used the clock. Here is a sample of that scorecard, an invented example in the real format.

What the score is not

• Not a prediction of whether you will be hired. It measures how your answers held up in a practice interview. Nobody can tell you what an employer will decide.
• Not compared with other people. Your score is against the rubric, not against other users.
• Not a judgment of your voice, face or accent. Only the words in the transcript are scored. The one voice measurement, how much your pitch rises and falls, is compared only with your other answers and never scored. There is no camera in the mock interview.
• Not a person. The interviewer and the grader are AI models, and every screen says so.

What is free, and what the plan adds

Your first two scored mock interviews are free, and each shows your overall score, all five dimension scores, any red flags and your full transcript. The Interview-Ready plan, $29 a month (intro price through October 31; regular $49), adds the explanation of why you lost points on each dimension, your weakest answers rewritten with the reasons the new version scores higher, and drills for what you missed. See pricing.

Who builds this, and the rules it is held to, are on the about page.