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2026-10-17

How to Read a Mock Interview Report — and Decide What to Practise Next

The order to read a mock interview report in: the three-tier verdict, the six dimensions, the verbatim quotes and recordings, the question-by-question feedback, and finally your weakest dimensions turned into the next practice session. Walked through on a real generated sample report.

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Read it in this order: the verdict → the dimensions rated weak → the exact words and recording behind each weak rating → the “better answer” in the question-by-question notes → the questions you didn't answer.

Take away one thing: your two weakest dimensions. Practise those in a targeted round, then run a full mock with the same interviewer and see whether the verdict moves.

Editor's note: the author of this article is the author of the product, so this is first-party content. Examples come from the public sample report; the answers in that session are text-to-speech test material, not a real person, and its criticisms are model output that has not been independently verified.

1. Start with the verdict: it answers “would this round pass?”

There are only three verdicts. Hire means you would move on to the next round; Borderline means there is a clear gap to fix before trying again; No-hire risk means that, as you performed, you would not pass. It is not a score out of 100, so don't compare two reports by points — only by whether the verdict moved up a tier. It is a practice judgement generated by a model, not any employer's decision.

2. Then the six dimensions: look only at “weak”

DimensionWhat it looks atWhere the report shows why
Content credibilityWhether your claims are specific and believable — projects, numbers, mechanisms — or only conclusionsEvidence quotes tagged with this dimension
StructureWhether answers lead with the point and then expand, and hang together“What was wrong” in the question-by-question notes
Role fitWhether your experience lines up with the skills and business context in the job descriptionEvidence quotes and the interviewer's note
Handling follow-upsWhether you answered the follow-up itself, rather than changing the subject or repeating your last answerQuestion-by-question notes and the questions you didn't answer
Delivery and pacingHow you said it: repetition, circling, answers too long or too shortEvidence quotes plus the recording
Your reverse questionsWhat you asked when the floor was yoursNotes on the candidate-questions stage
Each dimension is rated strong, satisfactory or weak. The middle column explains the dimension's name to help you find the problem; the report's quotes and notes are what the rating actually rests on.

3. Check the exact words and the recording

A report carries three to six pieces of evidence, each a fragment of your transcript tagged with the dimension it supports. When the report is generated every quote is checked against the transcript (ignoring extra whitespace and letter case); if any quote can't be found, the whole scorecard is thrown away and generated again. So every criticism leads back to something you actually said. Quotes that can be located in a recording get a player; the playback position is estimated from where the quote sits in the answer's text, not an exact per-sentence timestamp.

“「我看这个岗位是JD里企业知识库和运维栽培的场景跟我的经验对得上。」 — “As I see it, the enterprise knowledge base and ‘ops cultivation’ scenarios in the JD match my experience.””

Sample report · role-fit evidence (original Chinese, with our translation; the candidate said “ops cultivation” for the job description's “ops disaster recovery”)

That one quote shows the value of verbatim evidence: the problem isn't phrasing, it's getting the job description's own business term wrong. Hearing the recording and reading your own sentence sticks far better than a line saying “role understanding is weak”.

4. Question-by-question notes: borrow the shape of the better answer

  1. Read the question: what was the interviewer actually asking? Many lost points come from answering a different question.
  2. Read your words: the report copies them from the transcript; they are not paraphrased.
  3. Read what was wrong: usually missing specifics, numbers without a definition, or a claim that doesn't match your resume.
  4. Read the better answer and rewrite it with your own real experience, keeping its structure (point first, then facts, then trade-offs) rather than its wording.

5. The interviewer's note, next actions and unanswered questions

The interviewer's note is written from the hiring side, as an internal note to the team — read it to learn how you would be described after you leave the room. There are at most three next actions. The list of questions you dodged or couldn't answer is worth copying out on its own: you were asked those once, and a real interviewer is likely to ask them too.

6. Turn the report into the next session

  1. Start a targeted practice round straight from the report. It focuses on the report's two weakest dimensions, for up to 10 turns.
  2. If you get stuck in practice, you can view a model answer and restate it in your own words; the report notes which questions you used one for.
  3. Then run another full mock with the same interviewer. The report compares the verdict with your previous attempt — improved, same or worse — and marks the dimensions that changed.