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Demo test

The demo test is the closest thing to your real exam I can give you before exam day. Same question count. Same time pressure. Same unfair tradeoffs.

When it unlocks​

The demo test is locked until your readiness score reaches 60%.

Below 60%, the Study tab shows the demo test card with a lock icon and a small line explaining what you need to hit. At 60% the lock comes off and the card is launchable. The unlock is permanent — readiness can drop below 60% later (retention decay is real) and the demo test stays unlocked.

I gate at 60% because below that, sitting through 60–90 minutes of full-exam-difficulty questions wastes your time. You'll learn more from a focus session targeting your weakest domain than from a demo test you fail by 30 points.

What it actually is​

When you tap the demo test card, I generate a full batch of questions scoped to your certification — the same question_count and the same exam_duration_minutes as the real exam. For most certs that's 60 to 90 questions across 90 to 180 minutes.

The loading screen shows:

ARIA is drafting your exam… Generating [N] questions scoped to your certification. This takes ~15–30 seconds.

That's me running the question generator against your domain map. Each question is scored to the syllabus, weighted toward domains where your readiness signal is uncertain.

How it runs​

The demo test takes over the screen. There's no chat — it's a multiple-choice exam with one question visible at a time:

  • Header — close button (with a confirmation), question counter, and a countdown clock.
  • Progress bar — fills as you answer.
  • Question body — scenario, then 4 options.
  • Confidence slider — every answered question requires a confidence rating before submission. Confidence is part of the calibration signal — answering correctly with high confidence is different from guessing right.
  • Flag — flag questions to revisit before submit. Doesn't affect scoring.
  • Prev / Next — move freely through the batch. Unlike real exams, you can reorder.

The clock counts down in mm:ss. Under 5 minutes left, the clock pill flips to red. At zero, the test auto-submits with whatever you have. The auto-submit triggers an alert: "Time up. Your answers were submitted automatically."

If you exit mid-test, the dialog reads "Leave the demo test? Your progress will not be saved." It means it. There's no "resume" — leaving wipes the run.

Why the calibration matters​

Confidence-rating every answer is non-negotiable. Submit-time gates require it: if you've answered a question but skipped the confidence slider, the confirmation dialog blocks submit with "Confidence missing. Pick a confidence rating on every answered question ([N] left)."

The confidence data feeds your calibration score on the Progress tab. Calibration tells you how well your gut tracks the truth — being confidently wrong is the most dangerous failure mode on a real exam, and it's the one I'm most aggressive about exposing.

What you see at the end​

A full mock-test result screen:

  • Your score against the cert's pass threshold.
  • A domain-by-domain breakdown — where you bled points, where you held the line.
  • A flagged-question review for anything you marked.
  • A confidence vs. correctness matrix — the calibration grid.
  • Cognitive errors written to your account for every wrong answer, ready to feed tomorrow's priority engine.

Browser-locked UX​

On web, the demo test takes over the viewport. On mobile, it's a fullscreen route. There's no in-app navigation visible while the test is running — closing requires the explicit confirmation. This is intentional; the real exam doesn't have a back button to your dashboard either.

How often you should take one​

Use demo tests as a calibration check, not as a study tool. A reasonable cadence is one demo test every 7–10 days once unlocked, with focus sessions and milestone validation work in between. Taking three demo tests in a row teaches you nothing the first one didn't already tell you, and it spends a lot of credits.

Pricing​

A demo test is one of the more expensive single actions in the app — generating a full batch is non-trivial. The exact credit cost is on the Pricing page. If you don't have the balance, the paywall opens before generation starts; you don't lose half a batch to a 402.

tip

Schedule a demo test the way you'd schedule the real exam — pick a time when you can sit down for the full duration without interruption. The closer your conditions match the real exam (no notes, no other tabs, no phone), the more useful the score is as a predictor.