About exceltestpractice.com
An independent practice site for people who have an Excel test coming up for a job. This page says what is here, how it is made, and what we have not built.
What the site is
Exceltestpractice.com has three parts. The guides are free to read: 60 function guides, 11 error guides,12 how-to guides, 5 job-role pages and 8 pages for specific test formats. The course is18 published modules across 3 tracks so far, with 113 lessons and 476 graded exercises, 62 of those lessons free. The mocks are3 test formats with a full mock and a free five-item sampler each: Generic employment test, Kenexa / Prove It style, Robert Half style.
Who is behind it
The site is run by an independent publisher. It is not made by Microsoft or by any employer or test provider, and none of them has reviewed it. We do not publish individual author biographies or credentials on this page because we would rather say nothing than imply experience we cannot show. What we can show is the work, and the checks described below are part of the repository's test suite.
How the practice items are made
Every task and question is written for this site. We copy the format of a test, which means how many items, what kind, how long it runs and how it is scored, and never its content. We do not have access to real employer tests, and if a site offers you the actual questions, be careful with it.
We use AI tools to help draft and build the site. They do not decide what is correct. Each exercise has a stored solution, and an automated pass runs that solution through the site's spreadsheet engine and confirms it satisfies the exercise's own checks. We also test that typing the computed answer into a cell as a plain number does not pass where a formula is required. These checks catch most wrong answers but not every unusual workaround. The worked grids in the guides are computed in the same engine by the test suite before release, and a test fails if the result printed on the page differs from what the engine returns.
How the grid is built
The practice grid is drawn by us. It does not use Microsoft's logos, icons, fonts or screenshots. Its behavior follows Microsoft's published documentation of how Excel for Windows works: how a cell enters edit mode, what Enter and Tab do, how references change when you fill a formula, how functions handle blanks, text and errors. It is a simulation, not Excel, and a formula can behave differently in the real program in edge cases we have not found. If you find one, tell us.
How the mocks match test formats
We base each mock on the provider's public description of its test where one exists. Where the provider does not say how many items there are or whether the test is timed, the test's page says so and says what we chose instead. Our mocks are practice for the skills, and the pass band in the score report is our own estimate from our own items, never the provider's result.
What is not here yet
- Modules that need simulator features we have not built are marked planned on the course pages: Tables and Clean Data, Charts, Conditional Formatting, PivotTables, What-If. Practice those in Excel itself for now.
- There is no Mac Excel or Google Sheets version. The grid follows Excel for Windows, and the shortcuts page lists the Mac keys.
- The daily challenge and the leaderboards are planned, not live.
- Test formats without a mock yet have a page that says so and points to the closest practice we have.
Corrections and contact
If an answer is wrong, an explanation is unclear or a page describes a test format differently from what you were sent, email support@exceltestpractice.com with the page address. We fix factual errors in the content first. Payment and account questions go to the same address.
Independence
We name test providers only to describe what we help you prepare for. We are not affiliated with any of them. Pricing is on the pricing page, and what we collect about you is on the privacy page.