What is Preferred Answer in Tracks? What is it's significance?

What is Preferred Answer?

Preferred Answer is an optional feature within Xobin Tracks that enhances your candidate evaluation process by identifying applicants who closely align with your specific requirements. It can be applied to certain form field types — such as Yes/No questions, dropdown fields, and multiple-choice questions — allowing you to designate specific responses as "preferred". This helps you efficiently prioritize candidates who best match your job criteria and company values.

Significance of Preferred Answer:

1. Alignment with Job Criteria

Preferred Answers allow you to highlight responses that align with your job requirements, company values, or specific preferences — indicating the answers you consider most desirable from candidates.

2. Identifying Matching Candidates

Candidates who select one or more preferred answers are automatically labeled as "MATCH", signifying that their responses closely align with your designated preferences.

3. Scoring and Percentages

Each preferred answer is tied to a scoring mechanism. When a candidate selects a preferred answer, a percentage score is calculated based on the number of preferred answers they've chosen. This score reflects how closely the candidate's responses align with your criteria.

4. Efficient Evaluation

By automatically identifying candidates who meet your preferred criteria, this feature streamlines the evaluation process — saving time and effort during the assessment phase.

Utilizing Preferred Answer:

To mark an answer as the Preferred Answer, click the radio button corresponding to "Mark as Preferred answer."

Preferred Answer can be configured in the following three types of form fields:

• Yes/No Type Questions:

Set one of the binary options as the preferred answer for yes/no type questions.

• Dropdown Fields:

Mark specific options within a dropdown field as preferred answers.

• Multiple-Choice Questions:

Designate one or more choices within a multiple-choice question as preferred answers.

Updated on: 04/10/2026