Assessment

The Assessment

The quiz questions are divided into 3 levels of difficulty: easy, intermediate and difficult questions.
There’s a different number of questions in of each difficulty. The number of points awarded for a question in the different levels are different as well.

All corrections are made by The Big Challenge.
For each of the school levels from primary to secondary, three rankings will be established: national, regional and by school.

Contest

Number of questions

55 questions

Points per correct answer

25 easy questions (4 points each)
15 intermediate question (5 points each)
15 difficult questions (6 points each)

Points for incorrect answer

If an easy question is answered incorrectly, the 4 points are not awarded and 1 point is lost.
If an intermediate question is answered incorrectly, 5 points are not awarded and 1.25 points are lost.
If a difficult question is answered incorrectly, the 6 points are not awarded and 1.50 points are lost.

Points in absence of response

If no answer is given, the question is scored 0 points. If more than one answer is given, the question is also scored 0 points.

Bonus points

To avoid the risk of obtaining a negative number of points or 0 points, the total number of points obtained by adding all the points is increased by 85 points. Thus, each student’s grade will be between 18.75 and 350 points.

Example

The answer to a 4-point question is correct.	+ 4
The answer to a 4-point question is incorrect.	– 1
The answer to a 5-point question is correct.	+ 5
The answer to a 5-point question is incorrect.	– 1,25
No answer to a question	0
The answer to a 6-point question is correct.	+ 6
The answer to a 6-point question is incorrect.	– 1,50
Two answers are given to the same question	0
Total	11,25 points

11,25 + 85 = 96,25 points

For this example, the final score would be 96.25 out of 350.

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