Before you recommend GamePrep to students
Advisers, society committees and editors check the same few things before they link a resource: who is behind it, whether it is really free, whether it sells anything it should not, and how the numbers are made. This page answers those in order.
What this is
GamePrep is 39 free practice games and tests for online hiring assessments. The games are browser clones of the task types used in game-based assessments: digit span, numerosity, Stroop, flanker, mental rotation, mental arithmetic and the rest of the family that HireVue, pymetrics/Harver, Arctic Shores and cut-e/Aon build their assessments from. A student plays a game, the run is scored on our server, and they see a percentile within seconds. No account is needed to play, and no card is ever asked for to play.
It also covers the question-based formats graduate employers moved to in 2026: verbal reasoning (True / False / Cannot say) and deductive reasoning in the SHL and Cappfinity style, a situational judgement test, a Watson Glaser-style critical thinking test for law applicants, Aon's digitChallenge and gridChallenge, and a one-way video interview practice with HireVue's timings. The questions are written for GamePrep, never taken from a real test.
The point is familiarity. Most candidates who do badly on these assessments are not short of ability; they are meeting an unfamiliar format under time pressure for the first time. Having played the format once removes that, which is the largest single gain available before a real assessment.
What it is not
- Not the vendors' games. These are independent clones of the same task types. We have no access to any vendor's item banks, norms or scoring, and no relationship with any of them.
- Not leaked content. There are no answers to memorise here and nothing that would help a student misrepresent themselves. Trait games in particular cannot be gamed, and we say so on every page that covers one.
- Not a promise. No employer publishes its pass mark, so nothing here claims a student will pass a specific assessment. We say what is trainable and what is not.
GamePrep is independent and not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to HireVue, pymetrics, Harver, Arctic Shores, Aon, cut-e, SHL, Cappfinity or any employer named on the site.
How scoring works
Every run is scored server-side against a fixed norm table for that game, so the same performance always gives the same percentile, for everyone. The tables do not drift as more people play, which is what makes a rising score a real improvement rather than a moving comparison group. The full method is on the scoring methodology page, and what people actually score publishes the distribution of first attempts per game with the sample size beside every row.
What students pay for, and what is never gated
Every game and every score is free, without an account, indefinitely. A free account additionally saves recent scores. There is an optional paid tier: the full score history and the per-employer readiness report, which names a student's weakest game for a given employer's assessment and lays out a day-by-day plan. Prices are on the pricing page. Nothing a student needs in order to practise sits behind it, and nothing on the free path nags them towards it mid-game.
If your policy is to recommend only services with no paid tier at all, we would rather you knew now than found out later. The free games are still free for your students either way, and we will not press the point.
Student data
Playing needs no personal data. A student who never registers is identified only by an anonymous cookie so their guest scores can be shown back to them; there is no advertising cookie and no cross-site tracking. Analytics is off by default and runs only if they accept it. If a student chooses to create an account, we hold their email and a hashed password, and they can delete the account themselves, which removes their data. Payments, where they happen, are handled by Stripe; we never see card numbers. The video interview practice records in the student's own browser: the video is never uploaded to us or anyone else.
The data controller is a sole trader in Poland, so the GDPR applies in full, and the privacy policy sets out every category we hold, the legal basis for each, our processors and retention periods. That page is the data-protection overview; if your review needs it in a different format, ask and we will provide it.
Pages worth linking
- Which employers use which assessment — a maintained map from employer to assessment provider, with a confidence rating and a source for every entry. The page most advisers ask for first.
- Employer guides — one page per employer: which games appear, what they measure, which of ours to practise.
- Guides — the individual game types explained, and the honest answers to "can you fail it" and "what is a good score".
- Score benchmarks — where a student's first attempt sits against everyone else's, per game.
A blurb you can paste
Written for a resources page or a newsletter; edit freely.
GamePrep: free practice for online hiring assessments. 39 games and tests covering HireVue, pymetrics, Arctic Shores and Aon games, SHL and Cappfinity-style reasoning tests, situational judgement and one-way video interviews, scored into a percentile, no sign-up needed. Independent of all assessment vendors. https://benchkithq.com/gameprep
Questions
If anything here needs checking before you can recommend the site, or you spot something wrong on it, write to us. Corrections are welcome and we would rather be right than look authoritative.