How to Create Generated Tests using Questions with Scoring Method “By Answer Weight”

Table of Contents

Creating a Generated test based on Question Categories
Creating a Generated test based on Question Difficulty

This article explains how to create generated tests containing questions using the Scoring method By answer weight.

By default, when creating a generated test, you can specify points and penalties per each question difficulty or question category.

Using the By Answer Weight scoring method, you can also include branching questions in the generated test and allow different versions of the test to have different numbers of points.

Creating a Generated test based on Question Categories #

To start the test creation process, follow the instructions linked below:

At the third step of the Test Creation Wizard, choose the Based on Question Categories option and click the Select button.

Generated based on Questions categories

To incorporate questions using the By Answer Weight scoring method, you need to activate the Allow Different Points in Test Versions option at the fourth step of the test creation wizard. Enabling this feature ensures that each question’s points and penalties are determined by its own configuration rather than being uniform across all questions.
Click the New Rule button to add questions from the desired question pool.

add rule and questions

In the New Rule dialog:

Select the question pool that will be used by the generator to generate the test.
Define the number of questions that should be pulled from the question pool or select the Include all questions from question pool.
Use the Add New Condition button to add a new condition to generate the test.
Click the Confirm button to save the settings.

exam rule

Creating a Generated test based on Question Difficulty #

At the third step of the Test Creation Wizard, choose the Based on Question Categories option and click the Select button.

Based on difficulty

Move to the fourth step of the test creation wizard and enable the Allow Different Points in Test Versions option.
Click the Select Question Pool button to add questions from the desired question pool.

select pool to add questions

Define the number of questions that should be used to generate the test and click the Save button.

Add the questions

Note: During the sixth step of the test creation wizard, the passing score can only be defined as a percentage. This limitation exists because when including the questions with the By Answer Weight scoring method, the score in points cannot be the same across all generated versions.

Exam score