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4 real features of the test runner, worth knowing before your first attempt
Beyond the 50 questions themselves, the runner has a few built-in tools worth knowing about — how your progress is tracked, how to look things up, and what practicing a single Module actually trades away.
A live “X / 50 answered” progress bar
A progress bar at the top tracks your live answered count across the whole 50-question test, reading something like “14 / 50 answered,” updating the instant you type into a Complete the Words blank or pick an answer in the Router or Module. It’s the one steady reference point across all 3 parts.
The Dictionary — look up any word, mid-test
A Dictionary button sits right in the runner’s header, letting you look up any word without leaving the test. It’s there for genuine vocabulary gaps — a word in a passage you don’t know — not for finding an answer, since the answers themselves are never phrased in a way a dictionary lookup would hand to you directly.
Practicing one Module directly — XP still counts, the band doesn’t
Choosing a Module directly through “Skip to Section 2” skips Complete the Words and the Router, and skips the Band Score too. But XP still gets awarded — the platform’s own reasoning is that studying counts even when it’s one difficulty level drilled repeatedly. What it doesn’t do is feed your account’s diagnostic score history, which the platform reserves for genuine full-test attempts with an earned, not chosen, module.
Exit and submit both ask you first
Try to leave a test early and you’ll see: “Leave this test? Your answers will not be saved.” — a real warning, since nothing is saved until you actually submit. And if you hit Submit with blanks still empty, it asks first too: “You’ve answered 42 of 50 questions. Submit anyway?” — using your real live count, so you always get one last chance to go back and fill in what you skipped.
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4 runner features worth knowing