Find out whether your candidates have the language skills needed for the job.
The Hire Success® Grammar Proficiency Test consists of 41 multiple-choice questions about basic English grammar and punctuation, ranging from a fourth-grade level to college level. The majority of questions on this test are at the middle school or high school level. In each question, applicants are asked to choose the sentence that is grammatically correct or incorrect, as directed in the instructions.
Our grammar test for job applicants includes the following topics:
The Hire Success® Summary Report for every grammar skills test is broken down into sections.
The Hire Success® Detail Report for the grammar skills test gives you a breakdown of how the candidate answered each question on the test:
Grouping the candidate's test answers in this way not only provides you with an easy way to gauge where the candidate made mistakes but also helps you get an idea of the candidate’s areas of strength or weakness. You may want to follow up on some concepts in an interview if the candidate is selected for the next step in the hiring process.
If you activate the cheating mitigation feature for your grammar aptitude test, you’ll receive a Hire Success® Audit Report showing you a timeline that reveals:
The report also shows whether the test was automatically submitted because the candidate left the testing window for too long (possibly to look up an answer) or ran out of time.
This feature doesn’t just help you find out whether applicants know the test answers — it uncovers how well they know them. With the Audit Report, you’ll have added confidence in your hiring decisions.
Take a free test run of our whole system — from the grammar aptitude test to the personality profile to the integrity test and more — and find out why thousands of companies have turned to Hire Success to build stronger, more organized, and more consistent hiring systems.
