Exam Preparation
Build exam-style lessons with locked answers, official-style tasks, writing assessment, and speaking practice.
Who this is for
Teachers preparing students for structured certificate-style exams, especially Polish B1 NAWA and Polish B1-B2 telc practice.
What this page answers
- How do I create an exam-style lesson?
- What changes for students during an exam module?
- Which Polish B1 NAWA and Polish B1-B2 telc task types can Speakly generate and assess?
Prerequisites
- a course lesson you can edit
- the Exam mode feature enabled for your school
- enough organization tokens for AI generation or automated assessment
What Exam Mode Does
Exam mode makes a lesson behave more like a controlled test:
- students start from a pre-exam screen before the timer begins
- answers are saved while they work
- correctness is hidden until the student submits or time runs out
- students use Submit exam when they are finished
- when time expires, the lesson becomes read-only and the student's work is preserved
Use this for exam simulations, placement checks, and homework where you want the first attempt to matter.
Create an Exam Lesson
Open the lesson in the editor, then use Lesson Builder or Insert AI Section. When exam mode is available, the section picker shows an Exams group with the exam presets enabled for your school.
B1 NAWA
The available B1 NAWA parts are:
| Part | What it creates |
|---|---|
| Listening | Short utterances, dialogues, interviews, true/false tasks, and speaker matching with generated audio. |
| Speaking | Picture description, role-play with Live Examiner, and opinion tasks with recorded spoken answers. |
| Writing | A writing set with a short form and a longer form, word ranges, text entry, optional handwriting upload, and automated rubric feedback. |
| Reading | Short texts, true/false, gap fragments, title matching, and vocabulary-in-context tasks. |
| Grammar | Declension, connectors, comparison, conjugation, questions, paraphrases, aspect/mood, and prepositions. |
Each section lets you set the number of questions, number of exercises, and an optional topic. If you leave the topic blank, Speakly chooses from the exam preset's topic bank.
Polish B1-B2 telc
The available Polish B1-B2 telc parts are:
| Part | What it creates |
|---|---|
| Listening | Dialogue, interview, true/false, and opinion-matching listening tasks. |
| Reading | Email, forum, and text-comprehension tasks. |
| Language Elements | Dialogue completion, email cloze, and grammar or vocabulary choices in context. |
| Writing | Email-style writing tasks with automated rubric feedback. |
| Speaking | Picture, presentation, and discussion tasks, including Live Examiner practice when available. |
Use Polish B1-B2 telc when the lesson should follow that exam format. Use B1 NAWA when preparing students for the B1 NAWA task set.
Widgets Used in Exam Lessons
Exam presets combine regular lesson widgets with special exam-focused blocks. Teachers normally do not need to type these by hand, but it helps to know what you may see in a generated lesson.
| Widget or block | Where it appears | What students do |
|---|---|---|
| Exam note | Examples, answer banks, role cards, and task instructions | Read a grey exam-style box that matches the formal worksheet layout. |
| Inline choice | Grammar and vocabulary-in-context tasks | Choose the correct form from options shown inside the sentence. |
| Fill-in-the-blank / rewrite input | Connectors, prepositions, conjugation, question formation, and transformations | Type the missing word or accepted rewritten sentence. |
| Choose Answers | Listening and short reading tasks | Pick one correct answer from A/B/C-style options. |
| True/False | Listening and reading tasks | Mark each statement as true/false or yes/no. |
| Matching | Reading title-matching and speaker-matching tasks | Match headings, speakers, or text fragments. |
| Sentence Gap | Reading gap-fragment tasks | Drag missing sentence fragments into numbered gaps in a text. |
| Generated image placeholder | Speaking picture-description tasks | View a generated picture and describe it aloud. |
| Compact exam audio | Listening and speaking cue tasks | Listen with exam controls such as limited plays, no rewind, hidden transcript, and pauses. |
| Speech Recorder with assessment | Speaking monologue tasks | Record an answer and receive transcript, score, and feedback. |
| Live Examiner | Speaking role-play tasks | Have a short audio conversation with an examiner and receive feedback. |
| Writing Exam | Writing tasks | Type or upload a written answer and receive rubric feedback. |
The generated lesson also uses solved PRZYKŁAD examples. Some examples are grey boxes; others are highlighted directly inside the sentence. These examples are part of the student-facing task, not teacher-only notes.
Writing Assessment
Exam writing lessons use the Writing exam widget. A B1 NAWA writing set normally contains two parts:
- a short form, such as an announcement, invitation, postcard, or wishes
- a longer form, such as an essay, story, email, character description, or report
Students can type their answer, upload handwriting images, or use both when the task allows it. After submission, the platform checks the work against the matching writing rubric and returns:
- an overall result
- criterion scores
- written feedback
- strengths and areas to improve
- corrections where useful
Teachers can also run a preview assessment from the course lesson editor. Preview assessments are marked as test submissions and do not create a real student submission.
Automated writing feedback is a teaching aid. Review the result before using it as a final grade, especially when the student uploaded handwriting or wrote outside the expected task type.
Speaking Practice and Live Examiner
Exam speaking practice can include several task shapes:
- Picture description — the student sees a realistic generated image, listens to the examiner cue, prepares briefly, and records a spoken answer.
- Speech Recorder with assessment — the student records an answer, then receives a speaking score, transcript, and feedback across communication, vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation/intonation, and fluency.
- Live Examiner — for role-play tasks, the student joins a short audio conversation with an examiner. The examiner follows the role card shown in the lesson, so edit the card carefully before assigning the task. After the call, Speakly scores the attempt and shows the same speaking rubric feedback.
- Presentation or discussion — for Polish B1-B2 telc tasks, the student prepares a short spoken response or conversation and receives examiner-style feedback when assessment is enabled.
Speaking assessment has an attempt limit. If the student reaches the limit, the retry button disappears and the latest result remains visible.
Listening Audio in Exam Tasks
Exam listening tasks use a compact audio player designed for controlled practice. Depending on the task, the player may:
- limit how many times the student can play the audio
- disable rewind
- hide the transcript
- include silent pauses for preparation time
This keeps the activity closer to a real listening exam while still preserving the student's answers.
Defer Answer Reveal Outside Full Exams
You can also use Defer answer reveal without switching the whole lesson into an exam module. This is useful for small tests where you want students to complete all questions before seeing which answers were correct.
Open the lesson settings and enable Defer answer reveal. Students still work normally, but answer colours, icons, and correctness messages stay hidden until they submit or the timer expires.
Suggested Workflow
- Create the exam lesson from a B1 NAWA or Polish B1-B2 telc preset, or insert one exam section into an existing lesson.
- Review every generated task before assigning it.
- Set a realistic time limit when you want a timed simulation.
- Keep Defer answer reveal on for exam-style work.
- Ask students to submit the exam module when they finish.
- Review writing and speaking feedback before discussing results with the student.