Creating Video Questions in Test

TestTrick allows you to add video questions to your tests, enabling candidates to record their response in video format. Video questions are ideal for assessing communication skills, presentation ability, or role-specific tasks, and are especially useful for one-way interviews.

Step 1: Add a Video Question

In the Test editor (Step 2), click on the Video Question card.

The video question creation page will open.

Step 2: Video Question Type

Choose how the question will be presented to the candidate:

Text Question

The question is displayed as text description.
Candidates read the description and record their response as video.

Recorded Video Question

The question itself is recorded in video format by the test creator.
Candidates watch the video and then record their response as video.

How to Record the Question

When you select Recorded Video Question, the test creator must record the question themselves.

Here’s how it works:

Click Record

In the video question editor, click the Record button.
This opens the camera recording modal.

Allow Camera Access

The browser will ask for camera permission.
If camera access is blocked, an alert appears:

Allow camera access to proceed.

Record Your Question

Click Start Recording to begin.
Speak your question clearly — the maximum recording time is 1 minute.
Click Stop when you finish recording.

Review and Save

You can play back your recorded video to review.
If needed, re-record the question until satisfied by clicking the re-attempted button will open the recording modal again.
Click Save to attach the recorded video to the question.

Step 3: Candidate Recording Time

Set the maximum time a candidate can record their answer:
- 0.5 minutes
- 1 minute
- 1.5 minutes
- 2 minutes

Step 4: Skills (Optional)

Tag skills that the question assesses.
This is for internal reference only and does not affect the candidate’s test experience.

Step 5: AI-Based Scoring (Optional)

Enable AI Scoring

Click Generate Criteria to enable AI evaluation

AI automatically generates scoring criteria based on the question. You can review and edit the criteria if needed. Once enabled, AI will evaluate candidate video responses using these criteria and score it according to the question.

Note: AI evaluation is not available when the question itself is recorded as a video.

Step 6: Save the Video Question

After setting the question type, candidate recording time, and optional skills, click Save.
The question is now added to the test question list for review, editing, or reordering.

Step 7: Set Score for the Video Question

How to Set Score

In the video question editor, click Show Options.

You will see the following options.

Default Score

By default, every video question is scorable with a score of 1.
AI scores the response based on the weightage assigned to the question.

Change Weightage

Adjust the maximum weightage if you want this question to contribute more to the total assessment score.

Unscorable Question

If marked as unscorable the question will not contribute to the candidate’s total or average score and if AI scoring was enable will get disable immediately.

Candidate Experience

Candidates see the question as text or pre-recorded video, depending on the format you chose.
They record their response as a video.
Re-recording is allowed only if enabled in the assessment settings.

Best Use Case

One-Way Interviews: Video questions are ideal for asynchronous interviews, where candidates record answers and hiring teams can review them later.
They allow better analysis of communication, confidence, and presentation skills.
They reduce scheduling challenges and enable standardized evaluation for all candidates.

Summary

Creating video questions in TestTrick allows you to:

Assign recorded video or text question formats
Set a recording time
Tag skills for internal evaluation
Use video questions for one-way interviews and deeper candidate analysis