# Group Weights

**Question group weights** allow you to assign different levels of importance to different groups in your assessment. If you don't assign specific weights to groups, all questions (across all groups) are given equal weights.

To apply weights to a group, you can turn on the **Set per group weight** setting as shown below:

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Let us consider an example to illustrate application of weights on question groups. In this example, test creator has created two groups of questions: **Pronunciation** group and **Fluency** group. Test creator has further assigned a weight of 70% to **Pronunciation** group and 30% to the **Fluency** group, as shown in the image below.

Notice that two random questions are chosen from **Pronunciation** group and one random question from **Fluency** group.

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As can be seen in the image above, the **overall assessment weight** is the sum of the weights you assign to each group (e.g., 70% + 30% = 100%).&#x20;

The weight of each individual question is calculated by dividing its group's total weight equally among the questions selected from that group.

For instance, in the example above, as two questions are selected from the **Pronunciation** group, each will carry a weight of 35% (70%/2). Similarly, as only one question is selected from the **Fluency** group, that single question will carry the full 30% weight.

Please refer the [**Scoring with Weights and Randomization**](/speechace-speaking-test/speechace-workspaces-create-manage-and-share-speaking-assessments/creating-assessments/scoring-logic/scoring-with-weights-and-randomization.md) user guide for more details.&#x20;


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