Quiz question reporting negative results

Quiz question reporting negative results

by Will B -
Number of replies: 4

Hi everyone,

I have a multiple choice question set up where one answer is correct, and three are incorrect.  The correct answers' grade is set to 100%, whereas the three incorrect answers' grade are set to -100% each.  The default mark is set to 1 and there is a 0% penalty for incorrect answers.  

However, if a user gets the answer incorrect, it is reporting the score as -5.00.  Why is this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  

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In reply to Will B

Re: Quiz question reporting negative results

by Tim Hunt -
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If you want wrong answers to be graded 0, then set the grade for those answers to None.

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Re: Quiz question reporting negative results

by Will B -

Hi Tim, thanks for the reply.

Will this also work with multiple choice questions that require numerous answers?   For example, 3 correct answers set at 33.3% each and 4 incorrect answers set to 'none' - will this work?


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Re: Quiz question reporting negative results

by Tim Hunt -
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No. For quetions allowing mulitple responses, you do need negative scores on the wrong answers. There are seveal ways you might set it up:

  • If you want partial credit, I would do 3 right answers with 33.3% each. 4 wrong answsers with -33.3% each. That way each wrong answer selected cancels out one right answer.
  • If you want to punish wrong answers severely, do 3 right answers with 33.3% each. 4 wrong answsers with -100% each. That way any wrong answer selected makes the final score 0.

(For questions with multiple responses, the final score is never below 0.)

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Re: Quiz question reporting negative results

by Will B -

Excellent!  Thank you dearly for this.