PA grading
How are WGU performance assessments graded?
At a glance
Last updated
A WGU performance assessment is graded by dedicated evaluation faculty who score your submission anonymously against a task-specific rubric. To pass, every rubric aspect must reach the passing level, usually called Competent; one weak aspect returns the whole task. WGU's official evaluation turnaround is 72 hours, resubmissions are unlimited and free, and the only hard deadline is 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time on the last day of your term.
- Graded by evaluation faculty, anonymous, rubric-only
- Every rubric aspect must pass or the whole task returns
- Official turnaround: 72 hours per WGU policy
- Resubmissions are unlimited and free; term deadline is absolute
Every full package includes the written 6-month guarantee: we finish the remaining CUs under the agreed plan, or you do not pay. Packages: Bachelor's $3,000 · Master's $3,500 · both $5,500 · single assessments from $99.
What exactly is a WGU performance assessment?
A performance assessment, usually called a PA, is WGU's alternative to an exam: instead of answering questions under a proctor, you produce an artifact. Depending on the course that is an essay, a business analysis, a lesson plan, a care plan, a presentation, or a working program with a write-up.
Submissions go through WGU's assessment platform (Taskstream) as file uploads. The recommended formats are docx, xlsx, pptx, and pdf, and cloud links like Google Docs are not accepted unless the task page explicitly says so. Each task page lists its own accepted formats and limits, so read that page before you export anything.
Who actually grades a WGU PA?
Not your course instructor, and not your mentor. WGU uses a separate evaluation faculty: subject-matter evaluators who score submissions anonymously, meaning they see your work and rubric, not your name or history with the course.
This matters practically. There is no participation credit, no relationship to lean on, and no partial sympathy for effort. The rubric is the entire conversation, which is why students who write to the rubric pass quickly and students who write to the prompt's vibe bounce through revisions.
Want this handled instead?
Send your program and remaining CUs. You get a written plan, an exact price, and a finish date before you pay anything.
How does the rubric decide pass or fail?
Every task ships with a detailed rubric broken into aspects, and each aspect is scored on a level scale. The common version is three levels: Not Evident, Approaching Competence, Competent. Some tasks use four or five levels. Passing means hitting the passing level, usually Competent, on every single aspect.
One Approaching Competence anywhere returns the entire task, even if everything else is perfect. The evaluator's written comments name the failing aspects, which makes the revision surgical: fix the named aspect, leave the passing parts alone, resubmit.
How long does WGU evaluation take?
WGU's official service level is 72 hours from submission, per the university's own policy pages and blog. Students commonly report 24 to 48 hours in quiet periods and longer near month-end and term-end, when submission volume spikes.
Build the turnaround into your pacing: a task submitted Monday morning typically returns the same week, but a task submitted in the last days of a term is a gamble. Evaluation time is dead time in your plan either way, which is why we batch and sequence submissions instead of trickling them in.
What happens when a task is returned for revision?
You revise and resubmit. WGU's own guidance states you may refine and resubmit a performance assessment until you pass, and there is no fixed attempt cap and no resubmission fee. That is a genuine difference from objective assessments, which are capped at four attempts.
Two guardrails exist. After repeated returns an evaluator can lock the task and require a conversation with a course instructor before the next attempt, which is a support gate, not a failure. And every task must be submitted and passed by 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time on the last day of your term or it counts as Not Passed for that term, per WGU's assessment policies.
What do revision rounds cost you in a term?
Not money, but weeks. Each round is drafting time plus up to 72 hours of evaluation plus the risk of a new comment on a different aspect. Three rounds on one stubborn task can eat most of a month, and that month is tuition.
The students who avoid rounds treat the rubric as the assignment and the prompt as context: every aspect answered in order, with the exact deliverable the aspect names. That discipline is also how our writers work when a PA is in your completion plan, which is why our revision rounds are rare and short.
How does Coursework Ninja handle PAs?
When a performance assessment is in your written plan, we produce the submission: drafted to the rubric, formatted to the task's file rules, and revised if evaluators return it. You do not write, format, or chase feedback.
The work clears on the weekly schedule in your plan, under the same 6-month finish-or-do-not-pay guarantee as every OA and task on your list.
- Rubric-first drafting: every aspect answered in order
- Task-page file rules followed exactly
- Revision rounds handled until the task passes
Questions, answered
No. WGU policy allows you to refine and resubmit until you pass, with no fixed attempt cap and no fee. The real limits are the term end date and, after repeated returns, a required instructor conversation before the next attempt.
WGU's official turnaround is 72 hours. Students frequently report 24 to 48 hours in quiet weeks and slower returns near month-end and term-end peaks. Plan every submission as if it will take the full three days.
It is the passing level on the common three-level rubric scale (Not Evident, Approaching Competence, Competent). You need the passing level on every aspect of the task; a single aspect below the bar returns the whole submission.
Neither. Resubmission is free and uncapped under WGU's assessment policies. What a returned task costs is time: drafting days plus up to 72 hours of evaluation per round, all inside a term that keeps billing.
We do. If evaluators return a task we produced, we revise it against their comments and resubmit until it passes. That loop is part of the written plan, not an extra.
Coursework Ninja is an independent done-for-you degree completion service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Western Governors University.
Your plan starts here
No forms
Ready to set a finish date?
Send your program and remaining CUs. We reply with pace options, exact pricing, proctoring scope, and guarantee terms, in writing, before you pay anything.
No forms. Message us directly.