Master Pearson's automated corporate language exam. Practise sentence builds, repeats, story retelling, and short questions to secure high scores from automated AI raters.
Visit Official Versant SiteVersant English tests are utilized by multinational corporations, call centres, and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) agencies globally to screen job candidates and verify clear spoken communication capacity before hiring.
Part D of the Versant exam tests your sentence construction. You will hear three scrambled word groups played with gaps, and you must arrange them to form a grammatically correct sentence.
Scrambled Audio: "your coat / don't forget / it is raining / because"
The Versant English test is completed entirely on a computer or telephone and takes approximately 17 minutes. The test is highly structured and moves at a fast pace, leaving no time for hesitation.
The test begins with straightforward vocal tasks to evaluate your base pronunciation:
These parts test your rapid cognitive comprehension and syntactic mastery:
The final parts evaluate your capacity to speak in paragraphs and organise abstract thoughts:
Watch this walkthrough of the automated Versant interface to understand the exact timing and how to respond to the audio prompts.
Evaluates how well you understand and construct sentences. The AI checks if you can rearrange scrambled clauses and repeat complex sentences accurately.
Determines your word capacity. This is tested through your answers to rapid questions, your recall of specific terms in stories, and your choice of words in open questions.
The system measures the spacing between your words, your rhythm, and your reaction time. Hesitating, saying 'uh' or 'um', or self-correcting will lower your fluency rating.
Measures how well you produce English vowels and consonants, and if your word stress is natural. Your speech must be clear and spoken directly into the microphone.
Versant is graded entirely by Pearson's automated speech processing technology. It evaluates Sentence Mastery, Vocabulary, Fluency, and Pronunciation within minutes of finishing.
You will hear three scrambled word groups (e.g. 'to the park', 'went', 'the family') and must quickly rearrange them to speak a grammatically correct sentence ('The family went to the park').
No, standard Versant corporate tests are not approved Secure English Language Tests (SELT) for UKVI visas, though Pearson PTE Academic is fully approved.
