TakeMockTest

TakeMockTest (takemocktest.com) is a free, no-login mock-test platform for Indian competitive-exam aspirants: syllabus-checked practice tests with instant scoring, negative marking, and section-wise/topic-wise result analysis, across a catalog of 219 exams (government jobs, engineering, medical, banking, railways, civil services, management, law, design, study-abroad, and more).

Every checked question carries a source record (official notification/syllabus reference, URL, and the date it was verified) — no fabricated or "leaked paper" claims. Results and progress are stored only on the visitor's own device (localStorage); there is no account system and no server-side tracking of attempts.

157 exams are currently live with real mock tests, across 1,222 tests and 31,273 questions (7 September 2026). See TAKEMOCKTEST_CURRENT_STATUS.md for the authoritative current count and public/llms.txt for a per-exam summary.

Alongside the per-exam mocks there is one cross-exam practice section, the Logical Reasoning hub (src/lib/logical-reasoning.ts): 18 graded sets built by referencing reasoning questions that already ship inside exam mocks, by ID, rather than duplicating them. It owns no question content and no negative marking. See src/lib/logical-reasoning-data.ts for the generated grades and set composition, and scripts/build-lr-pool.mjs for the extraction step.

How content and code are divided

Exam content (research, question writing, independent QA) is produced through a separate ChatGPT-based workflow and handed to the coding agent as an approved package for repository integration. Read TAKEMOCKTEST_DEVELOPMENT_OPERATING_MODEL.md before doing any content or integration work — it defines the split and the rules that follow from it. QUESTION_BANK_HANDOFF.md and TAKEMOCKTEST_CONTENT_SCHEMA.md cover the handoff process and the exact schema.

Tech stack

Next.js 15, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS 3. Static export (output: 'export' in next.config.mjs) — every page is pre-rendered as real, crawlable HTML at build time. No database or login system; test progress and results use browser-side persistence.

npm install
npm run dev
npm run lint
npm run qa:questions
npm run qa:assets
npm run build
npm run qa:links  # hub reachability + dead internal links (needs out/, so run after build)
npm run qa:thin-content  # boilerplate ratio across generated sections (needs out/)
npm run qa:schema        # JSON-LD validity across every page (needs out/)
npm run qa:drift         # diff every page's SEO state against the committed baseline (needs out/)
npm run qa:dashes        # no em or en dashes in authored prose (source only, no build needed)
npm run qa:hreflang      # hreflang rules + rendered tags (rules run without a build)
npm run qa:site   # full quality gate: lint + qa:questions + qa:assets + build + SEO + links

qa:drift compares out/ against TAKEMOCKTEST_SEO_BASELINE.json, a committed snapshot of every page's title, description, canonical, robots directives, h1, heading structure, schema types and sitemap membership. It fails the build only on de-indexing changes — a page removed, noindexed, stripped of its canonical or title, or dropped from the sitemap — and prints title/description/schema moves as warnings. When those changes are intentional, accept them with:

npm run seo:baseline   # re-capture the baseline from the current build

Review the diff of TAKEMOCKTEST_SEO_BASELINE.json before committing it: that diff is the record of what a change did to the site's search footprint.

Adding a new exam

1. Confirm the approved content package matches TAKEMOCKTEST_CONTENT_SCHEMA.md.
2. Add the exam to ExamSlug and the EXAMS record in src/lib/exams.ts, and give it a liveSlug in src/lib/exam-catalog.ts.
3. Add the question-bank .ts files to src/lib/question-banks/ and wire them into src/lib/questions.ts.
4. Extend scripts/audit-question-banks.mjs's filename regex and expected-count logic for the new file prefix.
5. Run npm run qa:site, then a focused browser smoke test (see TAKEMOCKTEST_DEVELOPMENT_OPERATING_MODEL.md §6).
6. Run npm run seo:baseline and commit the updated TAKEMOCKTEST_SEO_BASELINE.json — read its diff first, so the new exam's pages are the only thing that moved.
7. Update public/llms.txt, BATCH_ROADMAP.md, and TAKEMOCKTEST_CURRENT_STATUS.md.

Design system

Monochrome ink-50–ink-900 scale, zero border-radius, General Sans for headings and body, JetBrains Mono reserved for timer/score digits only. Do not introduce a new visual system per exam — extend the existing components.

Key docs

• TAKEMOCKTEST_DEVELOPMENT_OPERATING_MODEL.md — division of responsibility, handoff conventions, deployment rules
• QUESTION_BANK_HANDOFF.md — ChatGPT-side content process and JSON handoff format
• TAKEMOCKTEST_CONTENT_SCHEMA.md (+ .schema.json) — repository-facing TypeScript schema reference
• TAKEMOCKTEST_CURRENT_STATUS.md — live, repository-derived project dashboard
• BATCH_ROADMAP.md — exam queue and integration checklist
• SEO_PLAYBOOK.md — writing voice, E-E-A-T, and AEO guidance for any user-facing copy
• TAKEMOCKTEST_COLLISION_REFERENCE.md/.json — cross-exam topic/stem collision-risk reference (node scripts/generate-collision-reference.mjs to regenerate)