Nobody is
grading you.

Point it at the actual job

Not “interview skills” in general. Paste the link to the posting — Greenhouse, CareerBuilder, a company careers page — or paste the description text, which is the better route for LinkedIn. It reads what the role really requires, condenses the requirements an interviewer will probe, and builds practice aimed at the gap between you and that description.

1. 1Paste the postingA link, or the text if the site will not give one up. It comes back with the role summarized and the requirements listed — the technical skills, the domain knowledge and the behavioral questions, which is the part most people prepare for last.
2. 2Drill the skills, not the triviaEach requirement becomes something you can practice, tracked from learning to mastered. The tutor explains the concept rather than handing over an answer, which matters more here than anywhere: you are going to be asked to explain it out loud.
3. 3Then sit a mock interviewOne question at a time, drawn from that role, warm but realistic — and you will have already practiced what it probes. Ask the tutor about anything still fuzzy in between.

Going back for the diploma

A high-school equivalency is the one exam on this page that changes what you are allowed to do next — the jobs you can apply for, the courses you can enroll in. It is also the one people most often try to prepare for alone, because a class costs money and sitting in one feels like admitting something.

• GED®

  / 200

  A high-school equivalency diploma, taken outside school.

  4 sections · 32 questions · about 35 min of practice

  145 passes each subject.

And the ones that open a door

Placement and entry exams: which college courses you start in, whether a nursing program will take you, the certificate an employer asks for, the licence you drive on.

• ASVAB (AFQT)

  % correct

  The military entrance test. These four subtests decide eligibility.

  4 sections · 32 questions · about 47 min of practice

  Your AFQT is a percentile from the official test -- each service sets its own minimum.

• ACCUPLACER®

  / 300

  The placement test that decides which college courses you start in.

  4 sections · 32 questions · untimed, as the real one is

  Nobody passes or fails -- each college sets its own placement cutoffs.

• WorkKeys®

  level

  Three assessments that earn the National Career Readiness Certificate — Bronze to Platinum.

  3 sections · 24 questions · about 39 min of practice

  Your certificate is set by your LOWEST of the three — Bronze 3, Silver 4, Gold 5, Platinum 6. Official testing gives the real level.

• ATI TEAS® 7

  % correct

  The entrance exam for most nursing and allied-health programs.

  4 sections · 32 questions · about 40 min of practice

  No national pass mark -- each program sets its own cutoff.

• CDL Knowledge

  % correct

  The written tests for a commercial driver license. 18+.

  3 sections · 24 questions · about 30 min of practice

  Most states require 80% to pass. Your state manual is the authority.

We are the training ground, not the scorekeeper. Our estimates are rough bands meant to aim your practice, and where an exam has no national pass mark we say so instead of inventing one. For the number that counts, and for anything with a date on it, go to the body that runs the test.

Or nothing to do with work at all

Say you are here for yourself and the whole thing changes shape. No résumé talk, no interview drills, no card asking you to paste a job posting. Spanish before the trip, the chess opening you never understood, photography beyond the automatic setting, the guitar you put down decades ago.

Those are chips to prove the range; the box underneath takes anything you type. The tutor is as patient at seventy as it is at seven, and it does not know or care how long it has been.

What actually works when you are the one who left school

• Start lower than feels dignified

  The fundamentals are where the gap almost always is, and they are the ones nobody wants to go back to. Practice aims at your weakest skills, so letting it find the real floor early saves months of being stuck at the level above it.

• Twenty minutes beats a Saturday

  Mastery fades here on purpose and review comes back round before you have lost it. Four short sessions do more than one long one, which is lucky, because four short sessions are what an adult week actually has in it.

• Be asked, do not re-read

  Re-reading feels like studying and is nearly worthless. Being made to produce the answer is what moves a skill, which is why this is a quiz that explains rather than a course you watch.

• Paste the posting before you apply

  Most people prepare after they get the interview, which leaves a week. The requirements list is useful the moment you are deciding whether to apply at all.

• Watch the skills, not the streak

  Streaks are for showing up and they work. But the thing to actually read is the per-skill list — it tells you what to open tonight, which a streak never does.

• Say it out loud before you have to

  You will be asked to explain things in a voice, not a text box. Ask the tutor out loud and answer out loud — the mock interview exists for exactly this, and nobody is listening.