Exam statistics

Exam statistics

Analyze the results of your quizzes and exams to measure learning effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities.

Open statistics

1. Go to Admin > Analytics
2. Select “Exams” or “Exam statistics”

Overview of all exams

Displayed metrics

For each exam, you see:

Metric	Description
Exam name	Title of the exam
Attempts	Total number of all attempts
Participants	Number of distinct users
Pass rate	Percentage of passed attempts
Average score	Mean score achieved

Understand the pass rate

Calculation

Pass rate = (Passed attempts / All attempts) × 100

Interpretation

Rate	Assessment	Possible action
90%+	Very good	Consider making the exam more challenging
70-90%	Good	Exam is appropriate
50-70%	Medium	Review learning content or questions
< 50%	Low	Exam too difficult or content unclear

Score distribution

Histogram

A histogram shows how scores are distributed:

0-20%   ██ 5%
21-40%  ████ 10%
41-60%  ████████ 20%
61-80%  ████████████ 35%
81-100% ████████████ 30%

What you can learn from it

Pattern	Meaning
Bell curve	Normal distribution, exam well calibrated
Left-skewed	Exam too difficult
Right-skewed	Exam too easy
Two peaks	Two groups (prepared vs. unprepared)

Analyze an individual exam

Detail view

1. Click an exam
2. View detailed statistics

Question analysis

For each question, you see:

Metric	Description
Answered correctly	Percentage of correct answers
Most common answer	The option selected most often
Difficulty	Based on error rate

Identify problematic questions

Situation	Problem	Action
< 30% correct	Question too difficult or unclear	Revise question
> 95% correct	Question too easy	Make question more challenging
Many choose wrong answer	Distractor too attractive	Review answer option

Trends over time

Attempts over time

A chart shows:

• Number of attempts per day/week
• Pass rate over time
• Trend development

Interpretation

Trend	Meaning
Rate rises	Users learn from mistakes
Rate falls	Possibly new, unprepared users
Many attempts at once	Possible deadline effect

User results

Who participated?

A list shows:

• Username
• Number of attempts
• Best score
• Status (passed/not passed)

Check one user

1. Click a user
2. View all attempts with date and score

Compare several exams

Compare exams

1. Select several exams
2. View the metrics side by side

Useful comparisons

• Similar courses: Compare difficulty
• Before and after revision: Did the rate improve?
• Different groups: Do departments learn differently well?

Derive actions

If pass rate is low

1. Review learning content: Is everything explained clearly?
2. Analyze questions: Which questions are problematic?
3. Check time limit: Is there enough time to think?

If pass rate is too high

1. Make questions more challenging
2. Add more questions
3. Use application questions instead of knowledge questions