Editorial Standards

Step 1

Research before writing

The live search results for the target topic are pulled and read first — which pages currently rank, what format they take, how strong those domains are, whether an AI Overview sits on the query, and what people are asking alongside it. The findings go into a written research note kept in the project, one per page, with the decisions that follow from them: page type, title, and which questions the FAQ has to answer.

Enforced: the build fails if a published page has no completed research note.

Step 2

Write the questions and the explanations together

Question banks are written by hand, one item at a time. An item is not finished until its explanation is written — why the correct answer is correct, and where a tempting wrong option comes from. The explanation is the part that makes a practice test worth taking, so it is never added afterwards.

Step 3

Verify the answer keys mechanically

Every bank is run against its own key to confirm a perfect-answer pass scores 100%, which catches an off-by-one key or a mislabelled option. Correct answers are then checked for spread across option positions, so no test can be gamed by always picking the same slot. One early bank had every correct answer in the first position; that is exactly the error this step exists to catch.

Step 4

Check depth and internal consistency

Counts claimed in a title have to match what the page actually contains, search volume has to justify the page existing at all, and each page needs a lead and a real FAQ rather than a stub. An early page was titled "60+" while holding around 39 items; it was expanded rather than renamed, and the check that would have caught it was added afterwards.

Enforced: the build fails on thin pages, missing FAQs, or a published page below the word threshold.

Step 5

Cite the sources for anything claimed

Where a page refers to an established framework or an assessment instrument, it links to the primary source rather than naming it in passing — the test publisher, the standards body, or the original paper. Every link is checked to resolve before it goes live. Where the evidence is weaker than a claim would suggest, the claim is softened rather than propped up with a weak citation.

Step 6

Publish, then keep it current

Each page shows a visible "updated" date and the name of the person responsible. Pages are revisited when the search results for their topic shift, when a bank is expanded, or when a correction comes in.