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Plenty of prep guides still describe the Indeed Excel assessment as a quiz you can take for a badge on your profile. That test is gone: Indeed has wound down its skills assessments. If you were getting ready for it, the preparation still counts. It's just a different test you'll be taking.
Indeed's assessments were short multiple-choice quizzes taken on Indeed itself, with the result shown to employers as a proficiency label. Early in 2024 the scoring was cut from five labels to two. In late 2024 Indeed's support account told job seekers it was discontinuing assessments, and the phase-out ran through 2025. Indeed's own help article on assessments now redirects to its general help page.
As of October 2026. Indeed hasn't published a detailed notice we could link to, so if a recruiter sends you an Indeed assessment link, trust the link over this page.
Employers who screen for Excel use a testing provider or set a task of their own, and the invitation tells you which. The formats split three ways:
The Excel assessment test guide lists the providers by name, with the length and format of each test.
Indeed's quiz sat at basic-to-intermediate level: cell formatting, sorting, the everyday
functions (SUM, AVERAGE, MIN and MAX), IF and COUNTIF, absolute and cross-sheet references, and VLOOKUP. Whichever test replaces it for you, that list is the ground an
"intermediate Excel" requirement usually starts from.
The difference is how you'll be asked. A multiple-choice quiz checks that you recognise what a function does; a simulation checks that you can build it, under a timer, in an unfamiliar window. Prepare for the harder of the two by doing the tasks: formulas and references, VLOOKUP, SUMIF and COUNTIF and IF logic, each one an exercise in a spreadsheet you can try right here.
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