Creating a Sentence Completion Question

Overview

Questions that require candidates to fill blank spaces in a sentence with correct words or phrases are referred to as “Sentence Completion Questions”. This type of question helps you assess the candidate’s knowledge of a subject.

Sentence Completion Questions can be graded automatically by the system and require no human effort for evaluation. This article will walk you through creating a Sentence Completion Question. 

Steps to Create a Sentence Completion Question

• Click on the Library tab on the homepage, then click the Create Question button. 
• Click on the Sentence Completion question type in the Select Question Type dialog box.
• On the Problem Statement page, specify the following:

Problem Details

• Question Name: The problem name should be short and topical. It should not give any hints to solve the problem.
• Problem Description: While describing the problem statement, ensure the question is clear and detailed. You can also use tables, graphs, or attachments to enhance clarity.

Complete String

• In the Complete string section, enter the sentence that the candidate must complete.
  To insert a blank, type the sequence {blank}, including the curly braces wherever you want to display a literal blank line in the sentence. There can be more than one blank.
  Example: "{blank} is a back-end programming language." 

Question Properties

• Under the Question properties, you can set the score you want for the question.
• You can assign any score to a question. To evaluate the score for a question, the fraction of correctly answered blanks to the total number of blanks is multiplied by the total score for the question.
• Example: The score for a question is three, and there are three blanks in a question. The candidate fills in two of these blanks correctly. So, the fraction is ⅔; therefore, the final score is (2/3)*3, equal to 2. Refer to the Scoring for Sentence Completion Questions topic for more information.
• Assign the Recommended Time to answer the question.
• Associate it with the relevant tags. Tags are words or phrases that help with the searchability and organization of your questions. You can add the existing tags or create new tags. Set the difficulty level for your Question by associating the tags as Easy, Medium, or Hard. Alternatively, associate custom tags with identifying your question by complexity or level.
• Select the Skills you want to assess using this question.   

Interviewer Guidelines

• Interviewer Guidelines are for later reference. You can include a rubric about scoring the questions or write solutions to the problems in this section. These can be used by your team while evaluating the test. This step is optional.

 Note: Interviewer Guidelines are only visible to your team and you.

Bulk Upload

You can also use the Bulk-Upload option to upload a large number of MCQ questions at once using a CSV file.

1. Click on the Bulk Upload option highlighted in the below image.
2. From the dialogue box, click Browse Files and upload the CSV file containing your MCQ questions. You can download the Sample CSV File to understand the format to create a CSV file.

Candidate Preview 

• Once you are done with the question creation process, you can preview the candidate experience by clicking on See Candidate Preview. 
• The candidate preview will be visible on the right pane of your screen.

Saving the Question

• When you are done with creating the question, you can save it by choosing the preferred option at the top.