Exam Preparation

Build exam-style lessons with locked answers, Exam Tasks, writing assessment, and speaking practice.

Who this is for

Teachers preparing students for structured certificate-style exams, especially Polish B1 NAWA, Polish B2 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, Polish B2 NAWA, and Polish B1-B2 telc task types can Locuto.PRO generate and assess?

Prerequisites

a course lesson you can edit (accessible via Materials in the sidebar)
the Exam mode feature enabled for your school
school AI Credits and Exam Task capacity when the school pays for generation
the relevant assessment billing policy when automated assessment is enabled

What Exam Mode Does

Exam mode makes a lesson behave as a formal, controlled assessment:

Supported Lesson Types: Exam mode is supported on Homework and Exercise lessons. Live class sessions cannot be exams.
Pre-Exam Gate: Students start from a pre-exam briefing screen before the timer begins.
Hidden Answers: Correctness indicators are hidden until submission or timer expiry. Turning Exam Mode ON defaults Deferred Answer Reveal to enabled; turning Exam Mode OFF automatically turns deferred answer reveal off.
Writing Autosubmit on Timer Expiry: If an exam timer expires with an open :::writing draft, the system automatically submits the text and enqueues AI rubric grading, ensuring complete evaluation.
Automatic Certificate Issuance: Automatic certificate rules (ACTIVE + AUTO) are exclusive to exam lessons. If you attempt to turn Exam Mode OFF on a lesson with an active auto-issue rule, the platform will block the change until you pause the rule or switch it to manual issuance.

Use this for exam simulations, placement checks, and homework where you want the first attempt to matter.

Open the lesson in the editor and use Lesson Builder to choose an exam preset or add Exam Tasks to an existing lesson. When Exam mode is available, the picker shows an Exams group with the presets enabled for your school. Three presets are available: Polish B1 NAWA, Polish B2 NAWA, and Polish B1-B2 telc.

Polish B1 NAWA and Polish B2 NAWA

The available Polish B1 NAWA parts are listed below. Polish B2 NAWA uses exactly the same part structure, with tasks written at the higher level.

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 generated Exam Task lets you set the available task options, such as question count, exercise count, and an optional topic. If you leave the topic blank, Locuto.PRO chooses from the exam preset's topic bank.

Exam Task capacity and billing

For a school course, Exam Task generation uses the school's pooled Exam Task capacity. The pool is shared across supported exam formats rather than split into a separate allowance for each exam.

Each produced Exam Task has two school-funded components:

a published per-Task licence charge; and
ordinary AI-generation usage for creating the content.

The Lesson Builder checks the available capacity and school AI Credits before generation and warns when the request cannot be admitted. Partial results are charged and counted only for the Exam Tasks that were produced; failed work releases unused capacity. Owners and Operations admins can review the pool and usage in My School → AI Credits → Exam sections. See Billing & AI Credits and Pricing for the current rules and rates.

Student self-study Exam Tasks use the student's personal balance and membership allowance instead of the school pool. See Marketplace Self-Study for that path.

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 Polish B1 NAWA or Polish B2 NAWA when preparing students for the NAWA task set.

Build parallel papers from one preset

Regenerate the same preset several times to build parallel papers — one per group, or one per sitting. Each run draws different topics across listening, reading, speaking, and writing tasks, so the versions are genuinely distinct rather than near-identical copies. Review each generated version as usual before assigning it.

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	Tap each numbered gap and pick the sentence fragment that belongs in it.
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.
Freeform Answer	Short open-answer tasks	Type a short response; use teacher grading or an optional AI check according to the task settings.
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	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 Polish 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, Locuto.PRO 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.

Polish B1–B2 telc speaking results are supported for picture, presentation, and discussion tasks. Review the result as assessment feedback, and use teacher or examiner review for formal decisions.

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 Polish B1 NAWA, Polish B2 NAWA, or Polish B1-B2 telc preset, or add Exam Tasks to an existing lesson through Lesson Builder.
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.