Tags - Plugixa Exam

A question belongs to exactly one subject and to as many tags as you like. That difference is the whole point of them.

What tags are for

Anything cross-cutting, which is anything that would force you to duplicate the subject tree if you tried to model it there:

Difficulty is not a tag. It is a field on the question, and pools filter on it directly.

Tagging well

• Pick a vocabulary and stay in it. past-paper and pastpaper are two tags, and a pool asking for one gets half the bank.
• Tag for how you will select later, not for how you feel about the question now. If you would never write a pool rule on it, it is a note, not a tag.
• Keep the list short. Tags earn their keep by being reused. One tag used once is a comment.

Tags and pools

This is where they pay off. A pool rule can combine axes:

three questions, subject Quadratics, tag 2026, difficulty medium

So one bank can serve this year’s paper and last year’s, a practice set and the real thing, without a second copy of anything.

See Sections and Pools.

Managing them

Exams -> Tags lists every tag with how many questions carry it. Renaming a tag updates it everywhere; deleting one removes the label, never the questions.

The count is the useful column. A tag on two questions is not a pool you can draw from.

Troubleshooting

What to do next

• Organise what a question is about in Subjects.
• Select on both axes in Sections and Pools.
• Bring tags in with your questions through Import and Export.