Question types

Six shapes of question, each answered and marked differently. Knowing which one you are looking at is worth marks on its own.

Different exams ask differently, so Hue Eval carries every shape the tracks need rather than flattening everything into four lettered options. Each type below says how you answer it and exactly how it is marked.

Single choice

One prompt, several options, exactly one right. The ordinary case, and the bulk of most papers. Click an option to select it; click another to change your mind. Nothing is final until you submit.

Options are shuffled per question in a stable way, so the same question always shows the same order for you but the answer is not sitting in the same place paper after paper.

Select all that apply

Several options, and more than one can be right — you are not told how many. Each option is a checkbox rather than a radio, so selecting a second does not clear the first.

Marking is all or nothing. Your selected set has to equal the correct set exactly. Two of three correct answers scores the same as none of them, and a correct answer paired with a wrong one scores nothing. There is no partial credit, because the real exams this type comes from do not give any.

Numeric entry

No options at all — you type the number. The field accepts digits, a decimal point, a leading minus, and commas as thousands separators, which are ignored.

Two things are marked as correct:

• an accepted answer, matched as a number rather than as text, so 0.5 and .50 and 0.50 all pass where the key is 0.5
• an accepted range, where the question's answer depends on rounding — anything inside the range, inclusive of both ends, is correct

The review screen tells you which of the two applied, so you can see whether you missed by a method error or by a rounding convention.

Multi-blank text completion

A sentence or short paragraph with two or three blanks, each with its own column of three choices. You pick one entry per blank. The choices are picked, not typed, and a blank's column only ever fills that blank.

Marking is all or nothing. Every blank has to be right. A three-blank question with two blanks correct scores zero — again, matching the exam it comes from. This is why these questions are worth slowing down for: there is no credit for getting most of the sentence.

The review screen shows your choice and the correct choice blank by blank, so you can see which one of the three cost you the question.

Matching

Two lists, and you pair them up. Marked against the complete set of pairs, so a matching question is right when every pair is right.

Written responses

An essay or long-answer task with a word-count target and a text area instead of options. The editor counts your words as you write, and the response is saved as you go rather than only on submit.

Written tasks are not included in the objective score — they are scored separately against the task's own rubric and reported on their own scale. On the GRE track, the Analytical Writing task is graded holistically from 0 to 6 in half-point steps, which is the scale the real test reports.

A response below about twenty-five words is too short to grade against a rubric and is reported as such rather than given a misleading number. If automatic grading fails for any reason, the response is still kept with the attempt and shown in the review.

How marks are assigned

Marks are a property of the question, not of the type. Each question carries the marks it is worth and the penalty for getting it wrong, and the exam's own scheme decides both — so a three-mark question with a one-mark penalty and a one-mark question with no penalty can sit in the same paper, as they do in the real one.

While you are sitting a test, the marks and the penalty for the question you are looking at are shown with it. On the scorecard afterwards you get marks scored against marks available, not just a count of right answers — which is the number that actually decides a rank.