How Pip works and what it cannot do

What Pip is

Pip is a large language model with instructions written for graduate job practice. It reads what you type, keeps track of the round and replies. It does not search the web during a chat and has no database of employers.

How it marks you

Interview answers get a mark out of five against five plain questions: did you answer what was asked, is it clear what you did, is there a result, would a stranger follow it, and is it short enough to say. The mark is one reader's view of your answer, not a prediction of your interview.

What it will not do

• Help during a live test or assessment. Using it that way would be cheating, and employers may retest you in person.
• Invent experience, grades or numbers for your CV or your answers.
• Promise an outcome. Nobody can promise you an offer.
• Give visa, legal or pay advice about your case. For visas, use the official government pages.

What it cannot know

• What a particular employer will ask this year, or what its pass mark is.
• Application deadlines, salaries or whether a scheme is open. Check the employer's own site.
• Anything that happened after its training data ends, unless you tell it.

When it is wrong

It will be, sometimes. It can make arithmetic slips in chat and can sound surer than it should, so check the working yourself. The timed sets on the tests pages are written and checked by hand, with every numerical answer recalculated by a script before the site is published, so use those when you want a reliable answer key.

What Pip is good for

Saying an answer more than once. Hearing what is missing. Getting a blunt second reading of a CV line at midnight. Most of what makes people better at interviews is repetition with feedback, and there is rarely someone around to give it.