# 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.


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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://api-docs.speechace.com/features/spontaneous-activities/task-achievement-scoring/answer-question.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.