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# Answer Question

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Use [Score Task/Task Achievement](/api-reference/score-task-task-achievement.md) to assess if a question was answered correctly.
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In the "**Answer Question**" task type, the user is expected to provide a concise 1-2 word response to a short question. In this case, the developer can present a boolean result—either right or wrong—since the task score for this type will be binary, resulting in either one (correct) or zero (incorrect) score.

To illustrate how to score a user's response when asked to answer a short question, consider the following example:

**Question Prompt:** “What is the capital of France?”

**User Response:**\
“Paris.”

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If the user utters a relevant response as below, the developers can create a detailed report that provides the user a positive score as below. Note that the Task Achievement score is full, whereas the overall score is based on fluency, pronunciation and other language skills as well.

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If the user utters an ***irrelevant*** response as below, the API will give <mark style="color:red;">**zero**</mark> task score but the language scores will be non-zero and can be presented to the user as follows:

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Such functionality can be built by utilizing the [Score Task/Task Achievement](/api-reference/score-task-task-achievement.md) function of the Speechace API.