A free 30-day trial of TalkDrill for one class
A college can run TalkDrill free for 30 days with one class: up to 40 students and 15 staff, with nothing to sign and nothing to pay. Students take the placement test and work through a weekly plan of mock interviews, group discussions and writing, while the placement cell watches readiness move in the console, and then you decide whether to continue.
How the trial starts
Most of the setup is a form and one call.
1
Ask for the trial
A two-minute form on the colleges page. We reply within two working days.
2
A 30-minute walkthrough
The real console and the real student app, with whatever questions your placement cell wants to ask.
3
Students join
With a join code you share, an email-domain rule for your college address, or a roster you upload. The console tracks them from their first session.
4
Week one: the placement test
Students take the placement test first. It sets each starting line and the batch baseline.
What happens during the month
Every week
Three short missions on each student’s Home, each with the reason it was picked: mock interviews, group discussions, writing, grammar.
Every one to two weeks
A short checkpoint that updates their readiness across seven skills, so the placement cell sees movement during the trial and not only at the end.
Whenever faculty want
Set an assignment, book the class into practice pairs or five-person GDs, or run a live GD or mock-interview day in a lab hour.
Every week
A weekly email covering readiness movement, who is at risk of dropping off and classes coming up.
What you have at the end of the 30 days
Batch reports, a weekly email and CSV
Per batch: who joined, started and finished, baseline against latest, weakest skills and drop-off, plus a pilot evaluation across the rollout. A weekly email covers readiness movement, who is at risk and classes coming up, and every table exports to CSV.
Readiness by student and by batch
One readiness picture per student across seven skill families, with coverage shown: a skill not yet assessed says so and is never scored zero. Next to it, when they last practised and how their scores have moved — rolled up per batch, section or department.
Leaderboards
Ranked by practice minutes, XP, interview score or, if you switch it on, readiness — scoped to a batch or the whole institution. Students see the top ten and their own rank; staff see the full list.
Placement calendar and drive sprints
Add a company drive with its date and the eligible batches, and those students’ plans switch to a seven-day drive sprint with a countdown on Home. Afterwards, record each student’s outcome and see it next to their readiness band.
What helps a trial work
A campus trial is judged by whether students come back in the second week, not by how the first day goes. Three things make the difference.
One named member of staff who owns the trial and reads the weekly email. A first session in a lab hour, so the whole class takes the placement test in the same week and the baseline is complete. And a reason to practise: a drive on the placement calendar, or an assignment with a date.
Questions placement cells ask
Do we have to sign anything or pay to start the trial?
How many people can join the trial?
Do students need laptops or a computer lab?
Which class should we choose?
What happens when the 30 days end?
More for placement cells
Start with one class, free for 30 days
Up to 40 students and 15 staff, with nothing to sign. Tell us your numbers in a two-minute form and we reply within two working days with a walkthrough of the real console.