Free AI Essay Grader
AI Essay Grader: Grade Essays with Custom Rubrics in Seconds
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.
20 free essays/month
Custom rubrics
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41,000+
Teachers Using Formswrite
12 sec
Avg Per Essay Graded
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Teacher-AI Agreement
100+
Essays Per Batch
How it works?
From a stack of essays to a fully scored gradebook - 30 essays in under 6 minutes.
Step 1
Upload Your Rubric
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.
Step 2
Upload Student Essays
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.
Step 3
Get Per-Criterion Scores + Feedback
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.
What Makes This AI Essay Grader Different
Rubric-first scoring, per-criterion feedback with citations, and bulk grading at scale - the AI essay grader teachers actually trust.
Per-Criterion Rubric Scoring
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.
• 1-10 criteria supported
• Standards-aligned (Common Core / IB / CBSE)
• Configurable point scales
• Per-criterion evidence citations
• Override individual scores anytime
Argument & Citation Analysis
Beyond surface scoring - the AI essay grader analyzes argument structure, evidence quality, and citation accuracy. Catches unsupported claims, misquoted sources, and weak transitions.
• Thesis clarity scoring
• Evidence-quality detection
• Citation accuracy check
• Argument coherence
• Counter-argument awareness
Detailed Per-Essay Feedback
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.
• Strengths + improvement areas
• Line-level citations
• Suggested revisions
• Tone-controlled (encouraging by default)
• Optional rewrite suggestions
Bulk Essay Grading
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.
• PDF + Word + Google Docs
• OCR for handwritten scans
• 100+ essays per batch
• No rubric drift across students
• Exportable to CSV / gradebook
“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 Chen
AP English Department Chair, California
Grade Your Next Essay Batch in Under 10 Minutes
Upload your rubric, drop in student essays, get per-criterion scores with line citations. 20 free essays per month, no credit card.
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The AI Essay Grader Purpose-Built for Teachers
Formswrite 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.
How the AI Essay Grader Scores Rubric Criteria
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.
AI Essay Grader vs. Manual Essay Grading
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.
Free AI Essay Grader for IELTS, TOEFL, SAT, GRE, and UPSC Essays
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.
AI Essay Grader with Google Forms Integration
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.
Other Formswrite Grading Tools
The AI essay grader is part of a broader set of grading tools.
Frequently Asked Questions
We have compiled a list of the most frequently asked questions. If you have any other questions, please contact us.
Formswrite makes it easy to convert your Google Docs into Google Forms. Simply write your quiz or assessment in Google Docs following our simple formatting guidelines, then use our one-click conversion to transform it into an interactive Google Form.
We support multiple choice questions (MCQ), true/false questions, open-ended questions, and more. Our system automatically detects the question type and formats it appropriately in Google Forms.
Formswrite is a productivity tool that helps educators and trainers convert their Google Docs into interactive Google Forms with just one click. Perfect for creating quizzes, assessments, and surveys quickly and efficiently.
Yes, any images in your Google Doc will be automatically included in your Google Form. Images are properly formatted and optimized for the best viewing experience.
We provide simple formatting guidelines that make it easy to structure your questions. You can use regular Google Docs formatting, and our system will automatically detect question types and convert them appropriately.
Yes, you can specify correct answers and assign point values to questions in your Google Doc. These will be automatically configured in the resulting Google Form.
Yes, you can organize your form into sections using headings in Google Docs. These will be converted into proper form sections in Google Forms.
You can convert up to 75 documents to forms per month on our basic plan. This is sufficient for most educators and small organizations.
Yes! Our bulk conversion feature allows you to convert multiple Google Docs to Forms simultaneously, saving you even more time.
Your forms will remain in your Google Drive and continue to work normally. Formswrite only handles the conversion process.
Yes, you can edit your forms directly in Google Forms after conversion. Any changes you make will be preserved.
Yes, Formswrite works with any Google Workspace account, including education accounts. We offer special pricing for educational institutions. Contact us to learn more.
Yes, we provide a variety of quiz and assessment templates to help you get started quickly. You can also save your own documents as templates for future use.
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