How are quiz marks and pass/fail calculated?
Understand correct-answer marks, deductions, score percentage and passing score.
Obtained marks = correct answers × marks per question − wrong answers × negative marking. Unanswered questions earn no marks and have no wrong-answer deduction.
Scoring uses the settings and questions included in the submitted attempt. Marks per Question is the reward for a correct answer; Negative Marking is the configured deduction for a wrong answer. It is a deduction amount, so a value of 0.25 deducts 0.25 marks per wrong answer.
How the result works
- Total marks: Questions included in your attempt × marks per question. Blank marks per question defaults to 1.
- Wrong answers: Deduct the configured negative marks per wrong answer. Blank or zero means no deduction.
- Score percentage: Obtained marks ÷ total marks × 100, rounded to two decimal places. A negative percentage is displayed as 0%.
- Pass/fail: Pass when your score percentage meets or exceeds the quiz’s passing percentage.
- Multiple Choice: Your selections must match the complete correct-answer set to earn the question’s marks.
Example
For 20 questions at 1 mark each, 10 correct and 4 wrong answers, with a 0.25 deduction: marks = 10 − 1 = 9; score = 45%. A 40% passing threshold gives a Pass.
Useful information
Skipped questions and maximum marks
A question you visited but did not answer, or did not visit at all, receives no correct-answer marks. The wrong-answer penalty applies to answered questions marked wrong. Total Marks is calculated from the questions used in that attempt; you do not enter a separate total-marks field.
Checking a score that looks unexpected
Open the question-wise review and check which answers were marked wrong, whether a Multiple Choice answer was incomplete, and the scoring settings captured for that submission. A later edit to the quiz does not automatically replace the scoring recorded for an earlier saved attempt.
Standard and Live results are saved, but visibility may be delayed by reveal settings. Practice results appear on screen and are not regular saved attempt records.
Pass/fail is separate from ranking
The configured passing percentage determines Pass/Fail; it is not a leaderboard position or a report’s score-band label. For example, 6 out of 20 is 30%, so it is Fail against a 40% threshold, even if the learner ranks above someone else.