Can You Cheat the Amberjack Assessment?
Amberjack puts an unscripted, one-take video answer in the same sitting as its scored items, and it has published what happened when candidates tried AI on both.
Every item is timed as it is answered, so a pause to look something up is itself recorded, and the video answers that follow are watched by an assessor or scored by an AI that has already flagged scripted responses. On the scored items, Amberjack found AI made no significant difference to average scores.
The two halves are read together
Most online tests are one kind of task. Amberjack's blended assessment is two, in one sitting: scored items (workplace scenarios and inbox emails) and, straight afterwards, two to four recorded video questions. You read the question, think for as long as you like, then have two minutes on camera in a single take, with no pause and no retake.
That shape is the defence. Someone who outsources the scored items still has to speak for two minutes, unscripted, about the same role and the same kind of judgement, and the employer sees both. Amberjack sells the video items as ones that can be assessed for successful candidates only, which means the stronger your scored result, the more likely your video is to be watched.
No clock, but every answer is timed
There is no countdown on the scored items, and employers tell candidates there is no time limit. That does not mean time is not recorded. Amberjack describes responses as “time recorded rather than time limited”, and its platform logs when each item is shown and when it is answered. A long pause on one email, in a sitting where everything else was answered at a steady pace, is visible in the data.
What actually moves the result
Practice, of the kind that changes how you read. For the scenarios, that is a habit: find your role in the setting line, look for the response that deals with the problem early and inside your own authority, and pick as Least effective the one that hides a problem or goes around someone. For the emails, it is working on paper and checking which answer you would get if you skipped a line of the table. You can practise the whole sitting, or either half on its own, on the Amberjack practice page.