How our practice test questions are built and checked
The Pass Pack is only worth buying if its questions are right, fair and well explained. This page says exactly how they are made, what has been checked, and what has not.
By the LifeScore Editorial Team · Updated · Editorial policy
What is in the Pass Pack
Each exam has full timed mocks (the first is free) and topic drills of 12 questions on one section. Every question can be answered on screen and every one comes with an explanation.
| Exam | Mocks × questions | Drills × questions | Sections |
|---|---|---|---|
| CCAT | 8 × 50 | 16 × 12 | 4 |
| Wonderlic | 8 × 50 | 16 × 12 | 4 |
| Reasoning | 6 × 50 | 8 × 12 | 2 |
| ASVAB | 6 × 50 | 16 × 12 | 4 |
| TEAS | 6 × 50 | 16 × 12 | 4 |
Where the questions come from
We write them ourselves. Test publishers do not release their live questions, so nobody can legitimately sell the real ones. If a site promises them, it is selling recalled or leaked material. Ours are original, written in the same style as the real tests, on the same clock.
There are two kinds. Hand-written items (vocabulary, analogies, reading passages, science and grammar questions) each carry an explanation written alongside the question. Rule-based items (number series, percentages, ratios, tables, shape sequences, ordering and deduction puzzles) are generated from a template. The correct answer is calculated by the rule, never typed by hand, and the wrong options are the slips people really make, such as forgetting to square or using the new total instead of the old one.
How answer keys are kept private
Questions reach your browser without their answers. When you finish, your choices are sent to our server and scored there. The key is never in the page, the network traffic or your browser storage, so it cannot be read ahead of time from the page.
Difficulty, order and repeats
Each question is rated 1 to 5. A mock ramps from easy to hard across the test; on the sectioned exams (ASVAB, TEAS, reasoning) it ramps inside each section. Drills climb from easy to hard across their 12 questions. The ramp is approximate, because a finite bank cannot always supply the exact difficulty at every position.
No question repeats between mocks of the same exam. Mocks D onwards also avoid generated questions that read like the one just before them with only the numbers changed. Drill sets of the same section do not repeat each other while the bank has other questions to give. Two limits: drills may reuse a question that also appears in a mock, since drills are for practice rather than scoring; and the ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension bank is smaller than four full drill sets need, so its later sets can repeat a passage.
The independent check, and what it was
About 320 of the questions written for the Pass Pack banks were put through a second, separate automated solving pass that re-solved each question from scratch without seeing our answer key, then compared its answer with ours. It found 0 wrong answer keys.
It was not a human expert review, and it cannot tell us whether a question is a good one, only whether the key is right. We also run automated tests on every release that build every mock and drill, check each question has one valid answer and no duplicate options, check no question repeats between mocks, and re-solve the rule-based question families with separate code. If you find a mistake, tell us at hello@lifescoretest.com with the exam, the mock or drill and the question number, and we will correct it.
How the score predictor works, and where it stops
The predictor looks at your most recent five full mocks (drills are not counted). It converts each to a score out of 50, then averages them with the newest weighted most, because people improve. It sets a likely range from how much those mocks disagree with each other plus a fixed allowance of 2.5 points for test-day nerves and a different question set. With only one mock it assumes a spread of 3.5 points. The chance of reaching your target is read from a normal curve over that range.
What it cannot do. It has not been validated against real test results, because we do not have them. It assumes our mocks are about as hard as the real test, which we cannot prove. The role and level targets it compares with are figures commonly reported from publishers' guidance, not official pass marks, and every employer or programme sets its own. Treat the prediction as a way to see your trend and the size of the gap, not as a forecast to bank. It never promises a score.
What we keep
Your scores, history, target and test date stay in your browser. We keep a check that your payment is genuine so your private link works, and a review if you choose to leave one. Card details are handled by Stripe and never reach us. See the privacy policy.
Not affiliated with the test publishers
- LifeScore is not affiliated with Criteria Corp. CCAT is a trademark of Criteria Corp. Our practice tests are original questions written in a similar style and timed the same way.
- LifeScore is not affiliated with Wonderlic, Inc. Wonderlic is a trademark of Wonderlic, Inc. Our practice tests are original questions written in a similar style and timed the same way.
- LifeScore is not affiliated with SHL or any test publisher. SHL is a trademark of its owner. Our practice tests are original questions written in a similar style (tables of business data, and passages with True, False or Cannot say statements) and are not the real tests.
- LifeScore is not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Defense or any military branch. ASVAB is a registered trademark of the Department of Defense. Our practice tests cover the four AFQT subjects with original questions and are not the official test.
- LifeScore is not affiliated with Assessment Technologies Institute (ATI). ATI and TEAS are trademarks of ATI. Our practice tests cover the four TEAS subjects with original questions and are not the official test.