want to set up "automatic fail" question

Jul 11, 2012

Tammy Smith
By Tammy Smith

Okay - I'm stumped. We currently have paper-based tests set up in such a way that an 80% is a pass, a score between 70-80% qualifies you for a re-write, and a score below 70% is a fail. I figure this is beyond Quizmaker's capabilities so for the online test, we're leaving it at 80% is a pass and anything below that requires the trainee to contact the training department (who will, in turn, look up their score and tell them whether they qualify for a re-write or not). Not as slick as we'd like it but we're willing to live with that.

Now, the part that makes all this tricky (trickier?), is that in our paper-based tests, we also include three safety critical questions. If you get one of these questions wrong, then it's an automatic fail. I've been trying to figure out how to set this up for e-learning. Changing the weight of the questions just skews the overall score required/allowed.

Short of dividing these out into two separate tests (one requiring 80% to pass and one requiring 100% to pass), I'm not sure what to do.

Thoughts? Please?

2 Replies
Jeanette Brooks
almost 12 years ago07/12/12 at 5:22 am (UTC)

Hi Tammy! What if you did this:

Put your 3 critical questions at the beginning of your quiz. On each of those questions, set up the branching so that if the learner gets an incorrect answer on any of them, they finish the quiz immediately. Since your pass/fail cutoff is 80%, this would mean that if they get any one of the questions wrong and are branched to the end, they would be counted as failed (because there's no way they could accumulate 80% - the score is calculated based only on the questions the learner completes).

If they answer correctly on all three questions, they continue on to the remaining questions in the quiz, and at the end, the final score is calculated on the entire set of questions. 

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