The AI essay grader teachers use to grade rubric-based essays at scale. Per-criterion scoring, citation-level feedback, bulk PDF upload with OCR. Works for K-12, university, IELTS, TOEFL, SAT, GRE, and UPSC essays. Free for 20 essays per month.
From a stack of essays to a fully scored gradebook - 30 essays in under 6 minutes.
Upload your essay rubric (PDF, Word, or paste plain text), or pick from our library of Common Core / IB / CBSE / AP / IELTS / TOEFL / SAT rubrics. The AI essay grader will score every essay against these exact criteria.
Drop in essays - PDF, Word, Google Docs, or photographed paper submissions. Bulk upload up to 100 essays at once. The AI essay grader runs OCR on scans automatically.
Every essay scored per criterion in 10-15 seconds, with line-cited evidence and 3-5 sentences of feedback per criterion. Review, override if needed, export to CSV, or share via Google Classroom.
Rubric-first scoring, per-criterion feedback with citations, and bulk grading at scale - the AI essay grader teachers actually trust.
RubricMulti-Criteria
Upload your essay rubric and the AI essay grader scores each criterion separately. A 4-criterion rubric returns 4 distinct scores plus an overall grade, with the AI citing exact passages.
AnalysisDeep
Beyond surface scoring - the AI essay grader analyzes argument structure, evidence quality, and citation accuracy. Catches unsupported claims, misquoted sources, and weak transitions.
FeedbackActionable
Every essay gets 3-5 sentences of feedback per criterion, citing specific lines. Students learn from the feedback - not just a number at the top.
BulkScale
Drop 30 essays in at once - PDF, Word, Google Docs, scanned papers, or pasted text. The AI essay grader scores the whole batch in minutes with consistent rubric application.
“I tested four AI essay graders for our department before settling on Formswrite. It was the only one that scored a 4-criterion AP English rubric correctly on a control batch I'd already graded by hand. The per-criterion citations are what sold me - students see exactly which lines earned which score.”
Marcus ChenAP English Department Chair, CaliforniaFormswrite is an AI essay grader designed around how teachers actually grade - rubric first, evidence second, score third. Upload your essay rubric (any number of criteria, any point scale), drop in student essays as PDF or Word or paste from Google Docs, and the AI essay grader returns per-criterion scores with line-level citations. Every score is justified by specific passages from the student's essay, so you can verify the grade or override it in one click.
For each criterion in your rubric, the AI essay grader analyzes the full essay text, identifies the passages relevant to that criterion, and assigns a score based on the descriptors you provided. A 4-point thesis-clarity criterion returns one of {1, 2, 3, 4} plus a 2-3 sentence justification citing the actual thesis sentence. The same essay is then re-analyzed independently for the next criterion - so a strong thesis doesn't inflate the evidence-quality score, and weak evidence doesn't deflate writing mechanics.
Grading 30 essays by hand against a 4-criterion rubric typically takes 4-6 hours, with consistency drifting between the first and last essay. The AI essay grader scores the same 30 essays in 5-7 minutes with zero rubric drift - it applies the exact same criteria to essay #30 as to essay #1. You review the scores and citations (faster than reading the essays cold), override where needed, and finalize the gradebook. Most English and Humanities teachers report 3-5 hours of weekly time saved.
The AI essay grader supports every major standardized-test essay format. IELTS Task 1 and Task 2 are graded on the official 4-band rubric (Task Achievement, Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range and Accuracy). TOEFL Independent and Integrated essays follow the official 0-5 scale. SAT essay, GRE AWA Issue and Argument prompts, and UPSC Mains essay formats are all pre-loaded. Coaching institutes use the bulk-grading tier to score full mock-exam batches in minutes rather than days.
Already collecting essay responses in Google Forms? Export your form responses to Formswrite and the AI essay grader scores the whole batch against your rubric - going beyond Google Forms' built-in quiz auto-grading, which only handles fixed-answer questions. Pair this AI essay grader with our AI grader for Google Forms to grade the full mix of question types in your Google Forms quizzes.
The AI essay grader is part of a broader set of grading tools.
Upload your rubric, drop in student essays, get per-criterion scores with line citations. 20 free essays per month, no credit card.
