We are excited to release a new coding score system across all CodeSignal Skills Evaluation Frameworks! You may be requested to complete any of these evaluations on behalf of various companies, and with this new coding score system, you can look forward to companies’ being able to better gauge your core skills and level of expertise.
If you have completed a skills evaluation in the past, CodeSignal will automatically convert your historical coding scores to Assessment Score. Thus, your existing assessment results will remain shareable with companies that request them in the future!
Read on to learn how to interpret the results of Assessment Score, and how it is calculated.
About Assessment Score
The new range for our coding score was recalibrated by our team of IO Psychologists after reviewing data from tens of thousands of assessment completions. Previously, the General Coding Assessment used a 600-850 score range, and other Framework-backed assessments produced a raw score out 1,000. Now, when you complete a skills evaluation that is framework-based, your coding score will range from 200-600 and your assessment result will give visibility into the mastery of individual skills being evaluated.
Overall Coding Score
Each Skills Evaluation Framework you complete will result in a single Coding Score that quantifies your core skills. This number will range from 200-600, with higher scores indicating that you successfully completed more questions in the assessment.
The score interpretation is very straightforward, higher scores indicate that test-takers successfully completed more of the assessment, thus demonstrating more of the relevant skills being evaluated by the assessment. Under that lens, test-takers should not spend all of their time on a single question, if possible. The more questions a test-taker is able to successfully complete within the time frame the higher their score will be. Although speed is not an explicit element of the scoring, it is implicitly part of it such that test-takers want to successfully complete as many questions as they can, as previously mentioned.
How Assessment Score is Calculated
The Assessment Score includes a two-tiered scoring system contributing to the overall score and a detailed breakdown of skill proficiencies based on performance. Questions within a Skills Evaluation Framework are organized and grouped into modules. Within the two-tiered system used for calculating the overall score, the first tier (i.e., the base points) treats all modules or question groups equally; the second tier (i.e., the bonus points) is awarded upon full completion of a module.
Assessment Score uses a two-tiered scoring system for each module (a set of 1 or more questions). Note: Bonuses are derived from normative difficulty and discrimination parameters for all questions within the module.
- First tier: The first tier refers to the base points you can earn by successfully completing all questions within a module within the Skills Evaluation Framework. As you successfully completes more questions within a module, you can earn up to the module’s base point value.
- Second tier: The second tier refers to the bonus points you may be awarded based on performance. You can only earn bonus points for a module if you successfully solve 100% of the questions within the module. More bonus points are awarded for completing modules that are higher in difficulty.
- Final Score: Your final score ranges from 200 to 600.
Please note that if you completed an evaluation on CodeSignal in the past, your assessment result will reflect the new Assessment Score format going forward. In these cases, the correctness of your solutions has not changed; rather, the original correctness of your code is simply recalculated in a new and improved format.
Overall, this new system is designed to maintain scoring consistency across Skills Evaluation Frameworks, increase the precision of measuring test-taker skills, and improve fairness of evaluation results. We look forward to your next evaluation!