Versant Test Overview

 

1. Introduction

Pearson’s Versant Writing Test (VWT), powered by Ordinate technology, is an assessment instrument designed to measure how well a person can handle workplace English in written form. The VWT is intended for adults 18 years of age and older and takes about 20 minutes to complete. Because the VWT is delivered automatically by the Versant testing system, the test can be taken at any time, from any location on a computer. A human examiner is not required. The computerized scoring allows for immediate, objective, and reliable results that correspond well with traditional measures of English language proficiency.

Versant Writing Test

In a time when online chat support is a key part of customer service offerings, ensure your employees have the reading and writing skills needed to have positive interactions with your customers

Using a computer in either online or offline mode, candidates respond to workplace-related situations that require written English, including taking notes, summarizing, and responding to emails.

With test results available in minutes, corporations and call centers trust the Versant Writing Test’s advanced auto-marking to make an unbiased evaluation of candidates’ writing abilities.

A look into versant test

Test takers respond to questions and provide writing samples via computer allowing us to evaluate each candidate's grammar, vocabulary, organization, and reading comprehension. Millions of data points are collected throughout the Versant Writing Test that feed into our patented scoring algorithm.

Part A : Sentence Completion

In this task, test takers read a sentence that has a word missing, and they supply an appropriate word to complete the sentence. for each sentence you only 25 Sec Performance on this task feeds into the vocabulary score.

Part B : Passage Reconstruction

During this question type, test takers have 30 seconds to read a paragraph before it disappears, then will have 90 seconds to reconstruct the paragraph in their own words. Performance on this task feeds into the grammar and reading comprehension scores.

Part C : Email Writing

In the Email Writing task, test takers will read a description of a situation and write an email addressing the issues described in the situation. Performance on this task feeds into the grammar, vocabulary, voice & tone, organization, and reading comprehension scores.

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