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Results and reports - Plugixa Exam

A result is what a candidate gets back. What is in it, and when, is decided per exam.

An exam’s Results tab, setting the pass mark, when results are released, and the pass and fail messages

When the score appears

Release policy The candidate sees the score
Immediately As soon as the paper is marked
When the exam closes At the exam’s closing time
On a date At a time you pick
By hand Only when you release it

Marking and releasing are separate steps, which is what lets a whole cohort’s results land at once rather than trickling out as each paper is marked.

Until a result is released, the candidate sees that the paper was submitted, not what it scored. No running total or transcript discloses it indirectly, and score tokens in emails resolve to nothing.

What a result page shows

  • Pass or fail, against the exam’s pass mark, with the pass message or fail message you wrote.
  • The score, as marks and as a percentage, formatted the way Settings says.
  • A per-subject breakdown, so a candidate can see which parts carried them.
  • The questions themselves, with the correct answers and your explanations, if the exam’s show answers setting allows it.

The per-subject breakdown is why Subjects are worth building properly. An exam whose questions all sit under one subject has nothing to break down.

Where results live

Place What it is
/result/<id>/ One result, for the person it belongs to
[plugixa_exam_result id="..."] The same, on a page of your own
/my-exams/ The learner’s own list of everything
Exams -> Attempts Every sitting, for staff

Result pages are never cached and send DONOTCACHEPAGE. One person’s result must not be served to the next visitor.

Showing answers, or not

Show answers is separate from the release policy. You can give a score immediately and withhold the paper, which is the usual shape for an exam that will be re-used: the candidate learns the outcome, not the answer key.

For a practice paper, turn both on and write good explanations.

Reports PRO

Pro adds the aggregate view: item analysis across a cohort, per-student trends, CSV export and scheduled email digests. See Analytics.

Troubleshooting

Symptom Usual cause
“Submitted” but no score The release policy is holding it, or an essay is still unmarked.
No per-subject breakdown Every question on the paper is under the same subject.
The candidate sees the answers and should not Show answers is on for that exam.
Two candidates see the same result Should be impossible: result pages are uncached and send DONOTCACHEPAGE. Check a proxy or CDN in front of WordPress.
A score reads oddly, like 65.5555 Number formatting. Set decimal places in Settings.

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