diff --git a/src/renderer/components/custom/settings/mock-hints-field.tsx b/src/renderer/components/custom/settings/mock-hints-field.tsx
index 764c8911..b13c0760 100644
--- a/src/renderer/components/custom/settings/mock-hints-field.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/components/custom/settings/mock-hints-field.tsx
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { Checkbox } from '@/components/ui/checkbox';
 import { useMockLiveSuggestions } from '@/hooks/use-mock-live-suggestions';
 
 /**
- * Whether a practice interview also shows what the live assistant would have answered, on the
+ * Whether a mock interview also shows what the live assistant would have answered, on the
  * configuration page and in the first-run wizard.
  *
  * The same row shape `TranscriptPanelField` uses, and here for the same reason the setting has a
@@ -15,17 +15,18 @@ export function MockHintsField() {
   return (
     <label className="flex cursor-pointer items-center justify-between gap-3 rounded-lg border p-3">
       <div>
-        <p className="text-sm font-medium">Show hints in practice interviews</p>
+        <p className="text-sm font-medium">Show hints in mock interviews</p>
         <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">
-          Puts what the live assistant would have answered beside each practice question, so you can
-          compare it against your own. Turn it off to answer unprompted - you can switch it either
-          way from the session bar mid-practice. This changes nothing about a real interview.
+          Puts what the live assistant would have answered beside each mock interview question, so
+          you can compare it against your own. Turn it off to answer unaided - either way, you can
+          switch it mid-session from the mock interview bar. This changes nothing about a real
+          interview.
         </p>
       </div>
       <Checkbox
         checked={enabled}
         onCheckedChange={(v) => setEnabled(v === true)}
-        aria-label="Show hints in practice interviews"
+        aria-label="Show hints in mock interviews"
       />
     </label>
   );
diff --git a/src/renderer/hooks/use-mock-live-suggestions.ts b/src/renderer/hooks/use-mock-live-suggestions.ts
index 836c308a..9875be97 100644
--- a/src/renderer/hooks/use-mock-live-suggestions.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/hooks/use-mock-live-suggestions.ts
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ import { toast } from 'sonner';
 import { useConfigStore } from './use-config-store';
 
 /**
- * Whether a mock session also generates what the live assistant would have suggested, plus a
- * toggle that persists the change.
+ * Whether a mock interview also generates what the live assistant would have suggested, plus
+ * setters that persist a change.
  *
  * Absent means **on**, the same direction `hintOnlyMode` is read in, and the main-process store
  * backfills the same default - so the two sides agree about a config written before the setting
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ import { useConfigStore } from './use-config-store';
  * unaided is the point, and it is asked in the first-run wizard rather than only discoverable
  * on the session bar.
  *
- * Shared by the session bar, the configuration page and the onboarding wizard. `toggle` reads
- * the store imperatively so it stays referentially stable.
+ * Shared by the mock interview bar, the configuration page and the onboarding wizard. `toggle`
+ * reads the store imperatively so it stays referentially stable.
  */
 export function useMockLiveSuggestions() {
   const { config } = useConfigStore();
diff --git a/src/renderer/pages/configuration/index.tsx b/src/renderer/pages/configuration/index.tsx
index 10e173c9..7017864f 100644
--- a/src/renderer/pages/configuration/index.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/pages/configuration/index.tsx
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import { ZoomField } from '@/components/custom/settings/zoom-field';
 import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button';
 
 /**
- * How the interview runs: the microphone, the language, how suggestions read, whether practice
+ * How the interview runs: the microphone, the language, how suggestions read, whether mock
  * interviews show them at all, and whether the transcript is docked.
  *
  * Every control here writes straight through to the config store as it is changed - there is no
diff --git a/src/renderer/pages/onboarding/index.tsx b/src/renderer/pages/onboarding/index.tsx
index 360059ac..e1df424c 100644
--- a/src/renderer/pages/onboarding/index.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/pages/onboarding/index.tsx
@@ -83,10 +83,10 @@ const STEPS: Step[] = [
   },
   {
     id: 'mock-hints',
-    label: 'Practice',
-    title: 'Hints while you practise?',
+    label: 'Mock interview',
+    title: 'Hints in a mock interview?',
     description:
-      'Practice interviews are the ones you run against yourself. This decides whether they hand you the answer as well.',
+      'A mock interview is where you practise against the AI interviewer. This decides whether it hands you the answer as well.',
   },
   {
     id: 'zoom',