Test, Section & Page Scores

This is the primary scoring pipeline — the one that produces the overall test score every candidate sees. It runs on each question's positive and negative multiplier (called a weight in some other exam systems) and rolls up through the same structure a test is built from: questions sit on pages, pages sit in sections, sections make up the test.

The Roll-Up Formula

• Page score = sum of the points earned by every question on that page
• Section score = sum of the scores of every page in that section
• Test score = sum of the scores of every section in the test

A question's own points come from its success rate multiplied by its positive or negative multiplier — see Positive Multiplier and Negative Multiplier on the Scoring overview page for that step. This page is about what happens after a question has its points: how those points combine into everything above it.

Worked Example

A test has 2 sections. Section 1 has 1 page with 3 questions; Section 2 has 2 pages with 2 questions each.

Rolled up: Section 1 / Page 1 scores 1 + 1 − 0.5 = 1.5, so Section 1 scores 1.5 (its only page). Section 2 / Page 1 scores 1 + 3 = 4; Section 2 / Page 2 scores 1 + 0 = 1; so Section 2 scores 4 + 1 = 5. The test score is 1.5 + 5 = 6.5 points.

Multipliers Are Copied From the Bank, Not Linked

A question's positive and negative multiplier in the Question Bank are only starting values. The moment you add the question to a test, those values are copied into the test, and from then on the bank and the test are completely independent:

• Adjusting a multiplier inside the test does not change the question's values in the bank.
• Editing the multiplier on the bank question afterward does not retroactively update any test that already added it.

Worked example: Question Q1 has a positive multiplier of 1 in the bank. You add it to Test A — Test A now has its own copy at 1. Later you raise Q1's bank multiplier to 5. Test A still scores Q1 at 1, unchanged, because its copy was made before the bank edit. If you now add Q1 to a new Test B, Test B's copy starts at 5 — the current bank value at the time of adding.

In practice: if a test that's already in use needs different scoring for a question, adjust the multiplier inside that test directly — editing the bank copy only changes the starting value future tests will pick up.