Building a quiz
Quiz settings, adding questions, and splitting a paper into sections.
Watch the how-to: Create a timed exam with sections and negative marking
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A quiz is built in its editor: open Quizzes, then Add New or a quiz’s title. The Questions box under the title holds the quiz’s settings, its sections and its questions.
Quiz settings
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Time limit (minutes) | The whole paper’s time. Blank means untimed. |
| Passing score (%) | The score needed to pass. Blank means any submitted attempt passes. |
| Retake limit | How many attempts a student gets. Blank means unlimited. |
| Questions per page | How many questions the student sees at once. |
| Shuffle question order | Each attempt gets its own order; within sections when the quiz has them. |
| Shuffle answer order | Each attempt gets its own option order. |
| Negative marking + Deduct % | Takes that percentage of a question’s marks off for each wrong answer. 25 gives a +4 / -1 paper. Unanswered questions are never penalised. |
| Open to every signed-in student | Makes the quiz a standalone mock test: anyone signed in can take it from its own page, with no course or enrollment. |
The first four settings have a Use site default box. While it is ticked, the quiz follows Turgor Exam Engine → Quiz Settings, and the box says what the default currently is. Typing a value unticks it, and the quiz then keeps its own value. New quizzes start on the site defaults.
Settings are checked when you save. A value that makes no sense, such as a retake limit of abc, is refused with a message, and nothing is changed.
Add questions
- Search questions by title or text finds questions already in the bank; click Add beside one.
- Write a new question opens the question form inside the quiz. The question is saved with the quiz and also appears on the Questions screen.
- Drag rows to reorder them. Edit opens the question on the Questions screen; Remove takes it off this quiz only.
A row marked cannot be marked stops the whole quiz opening for students until the question is fixed or removed. See Question types for how each type is written.
Sections
Split a paper into parts, such as Reasoning and Quantitative Aptitude.
- Save the quiz once, so the Sections table appears.
- Type a title in Add a section… and update the quiz. Repeat for each section.
- Each question row now has a section box; choose its section and update again.
Students see each section’s title as a heading over its questions. The paper is kept in section order, and shuffling stays within a section. Removing a section keeps its questions, moved into the first section left.
Turgor Exam Engine Pro: for a timer and cut-off per section, build the paper in Exam Mode. Each of its topics has its own minutes, marks and negative marking.