What to Expect in Your Editorial Assessment
Invited to take an EditingTests.com assessment? This guide explains everything you need to know about our editorial tests, used by 21,348+ organizations since 1998.
Essential Setup Requirements
- Best on a desktop or laptop: a phone or tablet is allowed, but the editing tests are hard on a small screen
- Browser compatibility: Chrome or Firefox recommended for best experience
- Environment: Secure quiet space with stable internet connection
- Time commitment: Reserve the full allocated time—cannot pause once started
How Our Assessment Platform Works
Real-Time Testing Environment
Each assessment is delivered entirely through your browser with continuous timing. Clear instructions appear before you begin, and once started, the timer runs without pause—just like real editorial deadlines. When time runs out, the answers you have saved are submitted and scored; unanswered questions count as wrong.
Professional Track-Changes Simulation
Our Editing Tests and Full Editing Assessments use an advanced simulated track-changes environment. You'll make edits directly in the document exactly as you would in professional editorial work—no specialist software required.
Understanding Your Score
Percentile-Based Ranking
Your percentile compares your result with other attempts at the same test, difficulty and industry recorded on this platform; the report shows the size of that group. EditingTests.com has administered over 130,000 assessments since 1998 across 4,400+ industry specialties.
Example: A 70th percentile score means you outperformed 70% of all candidates who have taken this assessment—positioning you in the top 30% of editorial professionals tested.
Your Results and Data Privacy
Secure Results Delivery
Your assessment results are delivered exclusively to the organization that invited you to test. The service providers that process data on our behalf are named on our sub-processor page; nobody else receives it.
How your assessment is scored
Some parts of an assessment are scored automatically and some are reviewed by a person. Our AI & Automated Scoring Notice explains which is which, what we do not do with your answers, and how to ask for a human re-review of a result.
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