# Scoring and auto-advance

> How Tandem scores screening and AI interview answers, how question importance counts, and when auto-advance moves a candidate on.

Source: https://tandem.joveo.com/support/roles/scoring-criteria

## How answers are scored

Each answer in `Screen` and `AI Interview` gets a score out of 5, with Tandem's reasoning beside it. You set how much each question counts by giving it an importance of `High`, `Medium` or `Low` in `Edit stage`. The stage score, out of 100, weighs the answers by that importance.

Read every score and reason on the candidate's `Reports` tab.

Related: [Review transcripts and reports](https://tandem.joveo.com/support/interviews/review-results.md)

## How auto-advance works

Turn on `Auto-advance` for a stage and set its bar. Candidates who score at or above the bar move to the next stage. Everyone else waits in [Needs review](https://tandem.joveo.com/support/interviews/needs-review.md), with a reason.

To turn it on, you confirm that you're choosing AI-assisted screening. Suggested starting bars are 75 for `Screen` and 70 for `AI Interview`. `Schedule` never auto-advances.

![Setting the minimum score for the Screen stage's auto-advance, at 75 out of 100](https://media.tandem.joveo.com/14-hiring-flow-min-score-popover.png)

## What scores don't do

Tandem never rejects a candidate, whatever their score. Scores inform your decision; they don't make it. Only you move a candidate to `Hired` or `Rejected`.

## Talent match

`Talent match` is a separate score out of 100 on the candidate's profile: how well they fit the role, with the evidence for each criterion.