Understanding Scores

eSkill tests are customized to your jobs; therefore, they do not have absolute percentiles associated with particular scores. The best way to interpret scores is to compare those of multiple respondents, or even better, to your current employees' scores. The highest scores correlate with the most relevant knowledge. Any score above a 25% shows a better-than-guessing result, and any score above a 66% shows a fairly strong level of understanding.

Note: Free Response questions do not have an associated scoring method.

Scoring scale of appreciation:

• 0% to 25% = Little or no knowledge
• 26% to 40% = Limited knowledge
• 41% to 65% = Moderate knowledge
• 66% to 80% = Strong knowledge
• 81% to 100% = Very strong knowledge

Typing, data entry, and free response questions have no effect on the percentage score.

Many subjects such as MS Outlook or C++ are very broad, and an “Expert” may be highly proficient at only a limited range of the subject's functionality. This is why longer tests, with broader subject coverage, ensure a better chance of picking up on a candidate's real strengths and weaknesses.

Predefined Tests - Score Calculations: Percentile Rank

A percentile is a measure that tells where an individual test score falls in comparison with a given group of test-takers.

A percentile rank indicates the percentage of total scores that fall at or below a given score.

A percentile rank is typically defined as the proportion of scores in a distribution that a specific score is greater than or equal to.

To find the percentile rank of score x, out of a set of n scores, where x is included, the following equation is used.

Where
B = number of scores below x
E = number of scores equal to x
N = number of scores

For instance, if you received a score of 95 on a math test and this score was greater than or equal to the scores of 88% of the students taking the test, then your percentile rank would be 88. You would be in the 88th percentile.

Please note that the percentile is calculated once at the end of the test, when the score is calculated.
Then, this percentile is recalculated once a day (at midnight EST) to refresh the statistics, including the other scores that were registered later.