Short Writing

In the Short Writing question type, test takers write a concise response to an open-ended prompt. This question type is suitable for evaluating short-form writing tasks such as email responses, chat messages, or brief opinion-based answers.

The scoring system then automatically assesses the test taker's writing and provides a vocabulary, grammar, cohesion and task achievement score aligned to IELTS standards.

Note: To get a reasonable scores test taker must write between 50-100 words.

Getting Started

To get started, do the following:

• Choose "Short Writing" from the list of question types to display the associated configuration panel.

• Type the instructions for the test taker either in the Question field on the left or the Task Description field on the right in the configuration panel, as shown in the image below.

Configuration Panel

The configuration panel for Short Writing is composed of only one element:

Task Description

In this field, provide the instructions or prompt that the test taker should respond to. When you use the relevance setting, the Speechace AI uses the text in this field to assess whether the test-taker’s response is relevant to the question. The image below shows an example question entered into the task description field.

What the test taker sees

The test-taker will see the question on the left side of the screen and a writing area on the right to type their response, as shown in the image below. They will have preparation time before the response time starts to submit their answer.