Test series

A test series is a timed test of up to 200 multiple-choice questions, made inside a community. You take it one question at a time, like a computer-based exam, and get a detailed report when you submit.

You can find every test you are allowed to see on Test series.

An MCQ is one question posted in a community that each member answers once. A test series is a full test: many questions, an optional timer, marks for right and wrong answers, sections, and a report with your score, rank and percentile.

A test's page also never shows its questions before you start.

No. There is no payment step to take a test series. Paid test series are not available.

Anyone who is signed in and can see the community's content can take its published tests. In a public community that is every signed-in member. In an ask-to-join or private community, only its members can see and take its tests.

Yes. You can open the page of a test in a public community and read its rules without an account, but starting the test needs you to sign in. A visitor sees a Sign in to take this test button instead of Start.

Open Test series from the left menu or your account menu. It lists every test you may see, from every community.

You can also find tests on a community's Tests tab, in site search under the Tests tab, as cards in your home feed, and in My tests on your own profile.

On Test series, tap the chip for your exam. Each exam has its own page with a short introduction and its tests, for example SSC tests. The chips show how many tests each exam has, so you can switch exams in one tap.

Every test is for one exam from this list: UPSC (Civil Services), State PSC, SSC, Banking & Insurance, Railways, Defence, Teaching (CTET / TET), Engineering (JEE / GATE), Medical (NEET), School (Class 6 to 12), College & University, Placements & Aptitude, General Knowledge, and Other.

How many tests each exam has depends on what communities have published.

Tests made before the exam list existed show under Other until their creator picks an exam. A creator can also choose Other on purpose when the test fits no exam on the list.

Type in the search box on Test series. It searches test titles and descriptions. You can also use the site search and open its Tests tab, which covers tests in public communities.

You can filter by length: Quick (up to 25 questions), Standard (26 to 100) or Full mock (over 100). You can filter by time: Untimed, up to 30 minutes, 30 to 60, or over 60. When signed in you can also show only tests you have not taken yet.

Sort by Most taken (the default) or Newest.

On a phone, tap Filters and they open in a panel from the bottom of the screen. Each filter you use shows as a pill: remove one by tapping it, or tap Clear all.

Every filtered view has its own link, so you can share it with a friend.

Open Test series while signed in. Tests you have in progress show at the top under Continue where you left off, with how many questions you answered, the minutes left and a Resume button (up to three tests).

The test's own page and My tests on your profile also take you back in.

A card shows the exam, the title, the community, the number of questions, the time, how many people took it, and the marks taken for a wrong answer when the test has negative marking.

When you are signed in it also shows your own state (not taken yet, in progress with minutes left, or your score) and one button: Start test, Resume or See report.

The Test series page only lists published tests that are still open. Drafts, archived tests and tests that have closed are not listed there. Tests in ask-to-join or private communities show only to their members.

You also will not see tests by someone you blocked, or who blocked you. A closed test still shows on its community's Tests tab.

Every community has a Tests tab listing its published tests as cards, with the number of questions, the time and how many people took each. When signed in you also see your own standing on each: not taken yet, in progress, or your score on your first attempt.

The newest tests (up to three published in the last 30 days) also show at the top of the community's All tab.

Published tests also appear as cards in your home feed, in both For you and Latest. At most one test card shows in any 8 cards, never two in a row. In Latest it is every 8th card.

You see the same tests there that you could see on the Test series page. They do not appear in Following, or when you filter the feed to one type.

Tests in public communities are listed for search engines once the community is eligible to show on Google. The test page describes the test to search engines without any question or answer.

Tests in ask-to-join or private communities are only seen by members.

A test's page shows only the rules, so the questions stay fair for everyone. You see the questions once you press Start the test. The test's creator can check them with Preview as participant.

It shows the instructions, the number of questions, the time, the marking, when the test opens and closes, how many attempts you have left, and when answers are shown.

It also says: The test creator can see your name and your results.

Open the test's page, read the rules, and press Start the test. The first question opens straight away and the timer, if the test has one, starts then.

If you already have an attempt in progress, the button says Resume your attempt instead.

The numbered palette shows each question's state: Answered, Not answered (opened but no option chosen), Marked for review, and Not visited. Each state shows its count under the palette.

Tap a number to jump to that question. Tap All questions to open the palette.

Mark for review and next flags the question so you remember to come back to it, then moves on. It shows in the palette as Marked for review.

If you chose an option on a marked question, that answer still counts when the test is scored. Marking alone, with no option chosen, counts as skipped.

Pick another option to change your answer, or press Clear response to leave the question blank. Use Previous and Save and next to move between questions.

You can change answers as often as you like until you submit.

Some tests group questions into sections, for example History and Polity. The tabs let you jump to a section. Your report then shows your score for each section.

No. The timer counts down from the time Ur Next Door's server says is left, not from your device's clock. Changing your phone or computer time has no effect.

No. The deadline is set when you start, so the time keeps running even if you leave the page or close the app. You can come back and resume while time is left.

Your deadline is the end of the timer or the test's closing time, whichever comes first. If you start close to the closing time, you only get the time left before it closes.

An untimed test has no time limit, so no timer runs. It still ends if the test has a closing time. Untimed shows on the test page instead of a number of minutes.

Yes. Answers save as you go. The top of the test says Saving... and then All answers saved. You do not need to press a save button.

Your answers are kept on your device and sent when the connection comes back. The test shows: Offline. Your answers are kept on this device and will be sent.

The timer keeps running while you are offline, so reconnect as soon as you can.

Nothing is lost. Answers not yet sent are kept on the device and go out when the page opens again. Open the test's page and press Resume to carry on from where you were, while time is left.

Yes. Sign in on the other device, open the test and press Resume. The answers that reached Ur Next Door come back there.

Answers you made while offline are sent from the device you made them on once it reconnects, so let it reconnect first.

Press Submit. A summary shows how many questions are answered, not answered, marked for review and not visited, with the note: You cannot change your answers after this. Press Keep going to return, or Submit to finish.

Once submitted, your answers are final.

The test shows Time is up and submits itself. Everything you answered before the deadline is scored, and you go to your report.

Yes, a little. Ur Next Door still accepts answers and the submit for 30 seconds after the deadline, to allow for a slow network. After that the attempt is closed and you may see: Time is up. Your answers up to the deadline were saved.

No. If you come back while time is left, press Resume. If the time ran out while you were away, the attempt is closed and scored the same way as a submitted one, using the answers that were saved. Your report is then ready on the test's page.

Yes. The test counts how many times you leave the test tab, and the people who run the test see that number on your report and in the participants list. You do not see it on your own report.

No. The page where you take the test has no ads.

The test's creator can choose to shuffle the questions, the options, or both, for each person. If they did, everyone gets their own order. Scoring is the same for everyone.

A right answer earns the test's marks for a right answer. A wrong answer takes away the marks for a wrong answer. A skipped question scores 0.

The test page and each question show the marking, for example +2 / -0.66. A test with no negative marking says no negative.

Yes. With negative marking, if the marks lost to wrong answers are more than the marks earned, your score and percent can be negative. Your report shows how many marks you lost to negatives.

The test's creator decides. The test page shows the number of attempts allowed and, when you are signed in, how many you have left. Some tests allow unlimited attempts.

When you have used them all, you see: You have used every attempt this test allows.

No. Rank and percentile use each person's first finished attempt only. Later attempts are practice: they get their own report, and your report shows a trend across your attempts.

The creator set an opening time and it has not come yet. The test page shows when it opens. Come back then to start it.

The creator set a closing time and it has passed, so the test takes no new attempts. If you already took it, your report is still on the test's page.

You can start or resume tests up to 30 times an hour. If you reach that, wait a while and try again. Your answers so far are kept.

Your answers were sent very quickly in a short time. Nothing is lost: the message says Your answers are kept on this device and will be sent again. Carry on with the test.

Your score, percent, pass or fail (when there is a pass mark), rank and percentile, time taken, and how many you got right, wrong and skipped. It also shows marks lost to negative marking, the average and top score, and your scores by section, topic and difficulty.

When the creator allows it, you also see every question with your answer, the right answer and the explanation.

Everyone's first attempts are ranked by score, highest first. If two people have the same score, the one who took less time ranks higher. An exact tie on both score and time shares the rank, for example 1, 2, 2, 4.

Your percentile is the share of takers at or below your rank, as exams print it. The topper is at 100. For example, rank 1 of 50 takers is the 100 percentile and rank 26 of 50 is the 50 percentile.

The test's creator picks one of three: Right after you submit, After the test closes, or never (Not shown). The test page shows which one applies under Answers.

The explanations follow the same rule and are never shown during the test.

The creator chose to show answers only after the test closes, or never. Until then your report shows your score, counts, rank and percentile, but not the answers, explanations or which questions you got right, as that would give away the answers.

Not unless the creator sets a closing time or changes the setting. A test with no closing time never closes, so answers set to show after the close stay hidden.

Yes. When a test that shows its answers after it closes has closed, everyone who finished it gets one notification that the results and answers are out.

You, the person who made the test, and the community's admins and creator. Nobody else can open your report.

If the test has a leaderboard, people who took it see the top 50 first attempts with names, scores and times, so they see you there if you are in the top 50. When the community hides who posted, nobody is named on it.

The creator can set a pass mark as a percent of the maximum score. If your percent is at or above it, your report says Passed. Below it, Not passed. Tests with no pass mark show neither.

Yes, when the answers are shown. Question by question, your report shows your time against the average, and the share of takers who got it right.

Open the My tests tab on your own profile. It lists every test you took or started, with its community, the date and your score or in progress, and links to the report or back into the test.

Only you see this tab. Not even a test's creator can open your list.

If the creator turned it on, the test page shows the top 50 first attempts, ranked by score and then time, plus your own place. You see it once you have finished the test.

If you do not see a leaderboard, the creator did not turn it on, or you have not finished the test yet.

The community has chosen to hide who posted. Then nobody is named on a test's leaderboard: others show as Member and their place, and you show as You.

Flag it from your report after you submit. When the answers are shown, press Flag this question under the question. When the answers are hidden, press Flag a question and pick the question by its number.

Then choose what is wrong (Wrong answer key, Unclear question, Typo, or Something else), add a note if you like, and press Send flag.

Yes. The flag form says: The creator of this test sees your flag and your name. The note can be up to 500 characters.

You can flag only from your report, after you submit. During the test you would see: Submit the test first, then flag a question from your report.

If your earlier flag on that question is still open, you see: You already flagged this question. Its creator will look at it. You can also flag up to 30 times an hour.

The test's creator is told. They can resolve or dismiss the flag, and if the answer key was wrong they can fix it or drop the question. Then every finished attempt is scored again, and you are told if your score or pass result changed.

The creator fixed a question or changed the marking after the test, and every score was worked out again. Your report shows Regraded on with the date. If your score or pass result changed, you get a notification.

A dropped question counts for nobody. It is taken out of everyone's score and the maximum, and every finished attempt is scored again. The creator can also bring it back, which scores everyone again.

If the creator made the test in English and Hindi, an English | हिंदी switch shows at the top. Tap हिंदी and the text changes at once. Your answers, marks for review and the timer stay as they are.

Your choice is remembered on that device. The same switch is on your report.

The switch shows only on tests made in English and Hindi side by side. A test made only in English, or only in Hindi, has no switch. Ur Next Door does not translate tests automatically.

The creator did not add Hindi for that text. Hindi is optional for each question, option and explanation, and any text without Hindi shows in English.

Tap the question's picture, or the zoom button beside an option's picture, to open it large. Zooming never picks an answer, so you can look closely before you choose.

Formulas are drawn as proper maths when the page can load its maths drawing. If it cannot load, the formula stays readable as typed, like \(\frac{1}{2}\), and the test still works.

You may be told when a community you are in publishes a new test, when results and answers are out, when your score changes after a fix, and, if you made a test, about flags and a daily count of who took it.

They are under Tests and results in Preferences, where you can change them.

Open the test's page while signed in and use Report. The Ur Next Door team can archive or delete any test.

To point out a mistake in one question instead, flag it from your report after you take the test.

No. Tests cannot be liked, commented on, saved or tagged. You can find tests you took again in My tests on your profile.

An archived test takes no new attempts and leaves the Tests tab, the feed and search. Everyone who took it keeps its page and their reports. The creator or the community's admins can bring it back at any time.

A community's editors, admins and creator can make test series in that community. A member who is not an editor of any community cannot make one. If that is you, you can create a community and make tests there.

Open the Create menu and choose Test series, or press New test series on your community's Tests tab. If you edit several communities, pick the one the test is for.

Give it a title and settings, press Create and add questions, add your questions, then Publish.

Only a community's editors, admins and creator can make one, and you do not edit any community. Ask a community's admin to make you an editor, or create a community of your own.

Your settings and questions save as you go. A test stays a draft, seen only by its builders, until you press Publish.

Exam, title, description and instructions; the languages of the questions; a time limit in minutes or untimed; marks for a right answer and marks taken for a wrong one; attempts allowed; when it opens and closes; when answers are shown; a pass mark; whether to shuffle the questions and the options; and whether to show a leaderboard.

Blank opening time means as soon as you publish; blank closing time means it never closes.

Time limit: 1 to 600 minutes, or untimed. Marks for a right answer: 0.25 to 100. Marks taken for a wrong answer: 0 to 100 (0 means no negative marking). Pass mark: 0 to 100 percent, or none.

Attempts: the builder offers 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 or Unlimited.

Every test must be for one exam so people preparing for it can find it on Test series. Choose the exam in the Exam field and publish again. If no exam fits, pick Other.

Up to 200 questions per test. Each question has 2 to 5 options and exactly one right answer.

A question can be up to 1,000 characters, each option up to 255, and an explanation up to 2,000. A topic can be up to 80 characters, and difficulty is easy, medium or hard.

A title can be up to 200 characters and the instructions up to 2,000. The instructions show on the test's page before Start.

In the builder, press Add a section and name it, for example History or Polity, then put each question in a section. You can have up to 20 sections, each name up to 80 characters.

People taking it get section tabs, and their report shows section-wise scores.

Open Import CSV or paste in the builder and press Download a sample file. Fill it in Excel or Google Sheets, save it as CSV and choose it. The file can be up to 3 MB.

Every row is checked before anything is added, with the problem shown for each row. Rows with a problem are skipped.

One question per row. Columns: Question, Option A to E, Answer (the letter), Explanation, Topic, Difficulty (easy, medium or hard), Section, and for Hindi question_hi, A_hi to E_hi and explanation_hi.

Keep the header row: columns are read by their names, in any order. Options D and E, the Hindi columns and the section may be blank.

Fill the Section column in your file. A section name that is new is added to the test. A name that matches an existing section, in any capital or small letters, goes into that section.

Yes. In Import CSV or paste, paste the rows copied from Excel or Google Sheets, with the same columns as the sample file. Press Check rows to see each row checked before you add them.

A test holds at most 200 questions. If your file has more good rows than there is room for, the check says Only N more fit in this test and the Add button stays off, so remove some rows and check again.

Rows with a problem, such as a missing right answer or the same option twice, are skipped. Each row shows its problem.

Yes. In the builder, choose From this community's MCQs, search them and add the ones you want. Each is copied in with its options, right answer and explanation, so editing the copy does not change the MCQ.

In the builder, press Add a picture on the question or option and choose one from your media, or upload one there. Pictures can be any shape, so diagrams and figures fit. An option can be a picture alone.

Only pictures from your own media are accepted. A link to a picture elsewhere is refused with: use an image from your media.

Write the formula between \( and \), or between \[ and \] to put it on its own line. For example \( \frac{1}{2} \) draws a fraction. Fractions, roots, matrices and chemical equations with \ce all work.

The Insert formula button puts the pair at your cursor, and the drawn formula shows under the box as you type.

Usually not. A dollar sign is read as maths only when it is clearly a formula, so amounts like $5 and $10 stay as text. To be safe, write formulas with \( and \).

In the test's settings, set Languages to English, हिंदी (Hindi), or English and हिंदी side by side. Side by side gives every question, option and explanation a Hindi box beside the English one. Each Hindi box is optional.

People taking it switch between the two languages.

On a test in English and Hindi, the builder counts the questions, options and explanations still without Hindi before you publish. It never blocks publishing: those texts show in English to someone reading in Hindi.

If you import rows with Hindi into an English-only test, it asks you to set Languages to English and हिंदी.

Publish checks three things. The test needs an exam (Pick the exam this test is for). It needs at least one question (Add at least one question before publishing). And its closing time must be after it opens and not already passed (The closing time has passed. Move it later, or clear it).

Press Preview as participant on the test's page or in the builder. It shows every question as a participant sees it without starting an attempt, so it never counts in your results.

Yes, but it is optional. The test's maker and the community's admins and creator are not offered Start the test. Use Take it as a participant next to the management buttons, and confirm: your attempt then counts in the leaderboard, the analytics and the participants list like anyone else's.

On test cards you see You run this test and a Your test button.

You can still fix wording, explanations, topics, sections and the order. You cannot add or remove questions or options, or change a right answer, in the builder.

To fix a wrong answer or drop a question, use Regrade on the Questions tab of the test's Analytics. You can still change the marking and pass mark.

Open the test's Analytics, go to the Questions tab and choose Fix the key or drop this question. Pick the right option, drop the question so it counts for nobody, or bring a dropped one back.

Every finished attempt is scored again at once, and each person whose score or pass result changed is told.

When you press Save, the builder asks: N people have taken this test. Their scores and ranks will be recalculated with the new marking. Choose Save and re-score to score every finished attempt again, or Keep the old marking.

People whose score or pass result changed are told. Someone still taking it is marked the new way when they submit.

The builder never re-scores while you type: it shows Marking changed: press Save to re-score until you save.

The Overview shows how many viewed the test page, started, submitted, ran out of time and are in progress, and the completion rate. On first attempts it shows the average, median and top score, average time, pass rate, a chart of how scores spread, and attempts finished per day for the last 60 days.

Only the test's maker and the community's admins and creator see it.

Open Analytics and the Participants tab. Each person has a row with rank, first and best score, percent, time, date, how often they left the test tab, and a link to their report. You can search by name, sort, and press CSV to download the list.

For each question it shows the share who got it right and who skipped it, the average time, how many picked each option, and any flags.

Discrimination compares the top 27% of first attempts with the bottom 27%. Near 0, the question does not separate strong takers from weak ones. Below 0, the weaker ones do better, which often means a wrong key.

The numbers are kept for up to an hour and refreshed after every submission and change. If something looks old, check again shortly.

Archive a published test to stop new attempts and take it off the Tests tab, the feed and search, while everyone keeps their reports. You can bring it back at any time without notifying members again.

Delete removes the test with its questions and every attempt and report.

The person who made it, and the community's admins and creator. Only a published test can be archived. A draft cannot be archived; delete it instead.

Yes. The first time a test is published, every member of the community at that moment gets a notification. In a large community the notices go out over the following minutes. Bringing an archived test back does not notify them again.

Yes. A new test series counts toward the same daily limit as new posts, questions, polls and MCQs. If you reach it you see: You have posted a lot today. Try again tomorrow.

When you delete your account, the tests you created are deleted, along with everyone's attempts at them. When a community is deleted, its tests are deleted too.

A view is counted each time someone who does not run the test opens its page. Your own visits, and those of the community's admins and creator, do not count.

As the test's maker, you get one note a day, N people took your test today, on days when anyone took it. You can change it under Tests and results in Preferences.

Only its builders. On the community's Tests tab, editors see their own drafts marked Draft, and the community's admins and creator see every draft. Nobody else sees a draft.

Yes. In the settings, set Opens and Closes. Leave Opens blank to open it as soon as you publish, and Closes blank so it never closes. The test must close after it opens.

Right after submitting lets each person learn straight away. After the test closes keeps answers private until your closing time, which suits a live mock everyone takes in the same window. Never keeps them hidden for good.

After the test closes needs a closing time, or the answers never show.

You can no longer edit the test, but you still see its analytics and every report. The community's admins and creator can always edit it.