Verified skills

A Platform test, not a state document. The "verified" badge shows that on the day of the test you handled items of the required tier. It is not a qualification certificate and not an educational document.

How a skill test is built

• Every skill has its own item bank: at least 36 items, 12 for each tier — beginner, intermediate and advanced. Every item belongs to one topic of the skill.
• Items ask you to choose one or several options, sometimes with a piece of code or a table. The Platform team wrote them and an expert in the skill reviewed them.
• Only a bank with a recorded expert review grants the badge: the expert's name, the review date and a note. A bank without a review runs in practice mode — you see your result, but no badge is granted.
• A published version of a bank cannot be changed: corrections come out as a new version.

How an attempt works

• 15 items, 5 per tier, drawn from the bank at random but evenly across tiers and topics. The order of the options is shuffled. Every attempt has its own set.
• 20 minutes per attempt. The server keeps the time, not your computer; the timer on the page warns you 5 minutes and 1 minute before the end. Answers are saved at once, and the attempt resumes after a page reload.
• The time is the same for everyone and is not extended: what a level means depends on it. In the timer settings you can hide the seconds (then only “over 5 minutes”, “under 5 minutes” or “under a minute” is shown) and choose when a screen reader tells you the time left: at 5 and at 1 minute, every 5 minutes, or only at the end.
• When time runs out, the attempt ends by itself with the answers you gave.
• The correct answers are never sent to the browser.
• The Platform counts how many times you left the test page. Only you see this number, and it does not affect the result. No camera, microphone or biometrics are used.

How the level is set

1. The share of points is computed for every tier. Items with several correct options can give partial credit; the rule is the same for every item of a bank.
2. A tier is passed with a share of at least 70 %.
3. The level is the highest tier passed together with every tier below it. Example: beginner 80 %, intermediate 60 %, advanced 80 % — the level is "beginner", because intermediate was not passed.
4. A test never grants the "expert" level.

After an attempt you see the level and your strong and weak topics per tier, with links to materials — but not the correct answers.

Attempts, the pause and validity

• One open attempt at a time.
• 2 attempts per 30 days for one test — including tests at an employer's request.
• A 7-day pause after an attempt that set no new level.
• A verification is valid for 24 months; you get a reminder 30 days before it ends. Your best live level is kept: a weaker attempt never lowers it.

Who sees the result

• You — all your attempts, levels and topics.
• An employer — the skill, the level, the month and year of verification and the source, and only where it already sees your profile: through your application to its vacancy, or through your consent to showing your profile. You can hide a badge in your profile, and then nobody sees it.
• At an employer's request you decide: share the badge, take the test or decline. The employer sees the level and date only if you share them; never the score.
• Nobody but you sees failed attempts, practice attempts or scores.
• Universities and the Platform's administrators do not see personal results. From the publication of the Privacy Policy of 2026-12-01, a university sees in aggregate statistics only the share of its students whose skill is verified by a test — by skill group, from 10 people and rounded (cohort methodology). A hidden badge is not counted in this share.
• A result helps a person decide; it does not replace that person: the Platform never changes an application's stage, and never rejects, hides or sorts candidates by a test result.

"Course completed"

Platform courses give a separate "course completed" mark — no higher than intermediate. It is distinct from "verified" and never replaces a level earned in a test.

How banks get better

For every item with at least 30 attempts, aggregate statistics are computed: the share of correct answers, how well the item separates stronger from weaker test-takers, and how often each wrong option is chosen. Items that turn out too easy, too hard or misleading are revised by the expert in a new version of the bank. These statistics contain no names.

Limitations

• A test checks knowledge in a choice-based format, not work experience or practical projects.
• Experts review the banks one by one; the list of skills with tests will grow over time.
• Native speakers proofread the Uzbek and English texts.