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title: Test overview
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# Test overview

The Overview tab shows a summary of the test's questions and its admins. Test details such as the name, access and dates now live in the Settings tab.

To see the overview of a test, follow these steps:

1. Log in to HackerEarth Assessments by using your admin credentials.
2. Click **Assessments**.
3. Click the name of the assessment whose overview you want to see.
4. Click the **Overview** tab.

Overview

This section summarizes the questions in the test by type, difficulty and score.

![](https://help.hackerearth.com/hs-fs/hubfs/undefined-Oct-07-2026-11-53-29-6706-AM.png?width=986&height=396&name=undefined-Oct-07-2026-11-53-29-6706-AM.png)

| **S. No.** | **Description** |
| --- | --- |
| 1 | Click the **Questions** tab to view all the questions in the assessment. |
| 2 | This shows the question types in the assessment, such as Multiple Choice Questions, Programming and Project. |
| 3 | This shows the difficulty level of the questions and how many questions there are at each level. |
| 4 | This shows the number of questions of each question type. |
| 5 | This shows the total score for each question type. |
| 6 | This shows the total duration of the assessment. Click the pencil icon to edit it. |

The last row also shows the total number of questions and the total score of the assessment.

### Test admins

You can view and add the admins of your test in the Overview section.

![](https://help.hackerearth.com/hs-fs/hubfs/undefined-Oct-07-2026-11-55-25-2523-AM.png?width=1085&height=200&name=undefined-Oct-07-2026-11-55-25-2523-AM.png)

| S. No. | Description |
| --- | --- |
| 1 | This is used to select the point of contact (POC) for the test. The POC is marked with a **POC** tag next to their name. |
| 2 | This is used to add admins to the test. |
| 3 | This shows the names of all the admins. |
| 4 | This shows the email ID of each admin. |
| 5 | This shows the access controls of each admin for the assessment. |
| 6 | This is used to delete an admin from the assessment. |

### Settings

All test settings are now in the **Settings** tab, grouped into the following sections in the left panel:

- Basic test setting
- Proctoring and plagiarism settings
- Candidate settings
- Email and reports
- Advanced settings
- Email templates

Click a section to view and edit its settings. To know more about test settings, click here.

![Screenshot from 2026-10-07 17-15-43](https://help.hackerearth.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%20from%202026-10-07%2017-15-43.png?width=670&height=203&name=Screenshot%20from%202026-10-07%2017-15-43.png)

### Other details

You can view and edit the details of the test in **Settings** \> **Basic test setting** \> **Other details**.

![](https://help.hackerearth.com/hs-fs/hubfs/undefined-Oct-07-2026-11-56-45-0960-AM.png?width=420&height=347&name=undefined-Oct-07-2026-11-56-45-0960-AM.png)

| S. No. | Description |
| --- | --- |
| 1 | This shows the name of the assessment. |
| 2 | This is used to turn test access on or off. |
| 3 | This shows the start date and time of the test, along with its time zone. |
| 4 | This shows the end date and time of the test. Click **Set end date** to add one. |
| 5 | This shows the test link for the assessment. |
| 6 | This shows the practice test link for the assessment. |
| 7 | This shows the test type of the assessment. |
| 8 | This shows the Recruiter API ID. |

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