FAQ

How do you usually do business?
We prefer to license directly with businesses rather than with individual end users. For more details, contact us.

What's the pricing?
We create money-saving packages for each of our clients in order to allow them to take advantage of economies of scale. For more details, contact us.

How does the API work?
Our API is completely transparent to your users. They compose directly on your site, press a "score essay" button and get the score back, all without ever leaving your site. You don't have to install anything. Just copy and paste a few lines of JavaScript. The script sends us the essay to score as XML and we return a score with comments as XML. This arrangement gives you total control over when, where, and how the score and comments are displayed on your website. That's why we proudly say: "Your brand. Your value. Our API."

How does Instant Essay Coach calculate scores?
Instant Essay Coach is a suite of powerful, state-of-the-art clustering and classification algorithms that compare the quality of writing in student essays with the quality of writing in known, scored essays. The system is carefully calibrated by hundreds of scored SAT essays including the canonical examples provided by the makers of the SAT, the Collegeboard.

How does Instant Essay Coach generate comments?
Comments are generated according to the overall score of the essay and the content of the individual paragraph and sentence. The specific language of the comments can be customized with your own content.

Can Instant Essay Coach be fooled?
Yes. If a student deliberately enters a carefully crafted but nonsensical essay, it is possible to fool Instant Essay Coach. Instant Essay Coach generally assumes that students are making a sincere attempt at the prompt. In our experience, most students enrolled in an SAT prep program are committed to improving their skills and do make sincere attempts at practice prompts.