different kinds of questions

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I was wondering how native speakers call the exam questions which needed to do calculation and how they call exam questions needed to write some sentences as answer.
Regards.
 
Exam questions which require some sentences as an answer are called "essay questions".
I can't think of a word for exam questions that require calculations.
 
hi,
Please note I'm not a teacher nor a native speaker;

Perhaps a long shot on my part but if you mean different kind of question as contrast with multiple choice questions which are a type of closed-ended questions then it could be open-ended questions/problems.

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I was wondering how native speakers call the exam questions which needed to do calculation and how they call exam questions needed to write some sentences as answer.
Regards.

Normally, questions that require calculations are math questions. The other type might be called essay questions or short-answer questions, depending on length. In the American Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) the divisions are math and verbal.
 
I was wondering [STRIKE]how[/STRIKE] what native speakers call the exam questions which needed to do calculation and [STRIKE]how[/STRIKE] what they call exam questions needed to write some sentences as answer.
Regards.
"What do you call X?" Never 'how'.
"How do you say X in English?"
 
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