Readiness gauge

A single number that says whether you should sit the exam yet. I keep it honest.

What the gauge shows

The Readiness tab opens with one big number — your readiness score from 0 to 100 — and a thin bar that fills against the Target 80% mark. Below it sits your schedule pill (On track, Slightly behind, At risk, Off track) and your current streak.

The number is colored:

• Red below 40 — you have foundational gaps I haven't closed yet.
• Amber 40 to 70 — you're moving, but you're not exam-safe.
• Green 70 and above — you're in striking distance of 80.

The Demo Test unlocks at 60. The Gauntlet unlocks at 80. I won't sign off the pass guarantee below 80.

How I compute it

Your score is the weighted blend of three signals:

1. Live domain mastery — running accuracy per domain across every session, weighted by the certification's official domain weights. This is the dominant input.
2. Mock test results — full-length mock tests anchor your score against real exam pacing. A mock pulls the score harder than a single practice session.
3. Cognitive errors — every unresolved error of type MISCONCEPTION, CONFUSION, ATTENTION, or KNOWLEDGE_GAP suppresses your score until you clear it from the error dashboard.

Two derived numbers ride on top of readiness:

• Pass probability — a clamped projection: roughly (readiness − 40) × 1.5, capped at 99. At 80 readiness you sit near 60 percent pass probability; the curve climbs sharply after that.
• Predicted ready-date — a velocity projection from your last 14 days of sessions. If you've finished fewer than 3 sessions I fall back to the roadmap's estimated completion date. The projection is floored at today + 7 days so I never promise you'll be ready tomorrow.

note

The score is recomputed every time you finish a session, log a mock test, or resolve an error. There is no "refresh" button — open the tab and you're looking at the current truth.

Why your score can drop

Readiness is not a high score. It's a forecast of how you'd perform if the exam were today. Three things lower it:

• Inactivity decay. Skip days and per-domain mastery decays toward your last drilled value. The schedule pill flips to Slightly behind first, then At risk, then Off track.
• New errors. A wrong answer on a previously-strong domain pulls that domain's score down and may add a cognitive error.
• Mock test under-performance. A weak mock outweighs several strong practice sessions on purpose — I'd rather you see the truth now than on exam day.

For the full mechanics of decay and recovery, see Readiness and decay.

Reading the schedule pill

The pill answers a different question than the score: given your target exam date, am I on pace?

Pill	Meaning
On track	Predicted ready-date is at or before your target.
Slightly behind	You'll make it but margin is thinning.
At risk	Predicted ready-date is past your target. I'll start tightening daily tasks.
Off track	I'll push you to either reset the date or escalate effort.

tip

The fastest way to move the gauge is to clear unresolved errors and finish the next milestone — not to grind generic practice. Open the domain map and start with the weakest tile.