Setting the difficulty level for Questions

HackerRank for Work allows you to set the difficulty level for your Questions by assigning appropriate tags. Based on the complexity of a Question, you can associate the tags as Easy, Medium or Hard. Alternatively, associate custom Tags to identify your Question by subject categories or other parameters such as 'Algorithm', 'Problem Solving', etc.

Prerequisites

You must have a HackerRank for Work account.

Steps

Let's take a look at the steps to set the difficulty level for Questions:

1. Navigate to Library on the HackerRank home page. Under the ‘My Company questions’ list, search and click the required Question.

2. Click Edit or click Create Question to create a new Question. The Problem Statement page displays.

3. In the Score field, specify an appropriate score for the Question based on the difficulty level. While you can assign any score you want for the questions you create, we use certain standards for assigning scores to the questions we create that you might find useful.

4. Click the TAGS drop-down list. 

5. Based on the difficulty level you want to set, type the keywords as Easy, Medium or Hard.

Creating tags for Question difficulty levels

6. Click Add. The tag is assigned to the Question.

7. To add a custom tag such as “Fundamentals” or “Beginner”, click the Tags drop-down, type the keywords, and click create new. The tag is created. Click Add. The custom tag is assigned to the Question. You can add and assign additional tags as required.

Creating custom tags

8. Save the Question.

9. Navigate to the Library, and select the “My Company questions” section. In the search pane, select the difficulty level associated with your Question as Easy, Medium or Hard. Your Question is displayed on the right pane. The difficulty tag and other custom tags associated with the Question are indicated.  

When you later generate Candidate reports, you can use these tags to generate performance graphs. The Candidate Summary page displays the performance report and shows the Questions categorized by their Tags.

Refer Test Labels for information about setting Test difficulty levels.