This guide for students shows how to review exam results after the exam maker releases them in the web-based ExamSoft Portal.
In this guide:
View report details
- Log in to your institution's ExamSoft Portal.
- Go to the course.
- Select the assessment.
- If you're using the Enterprise Portal, select the Completed tab, and then select the assessment.
- Find the assessment in the table, and then select the View Results button. If the button does not appear, this means that your results have not been released yet by the exam maker.
- Select Report Details to open the PDF (as described below).
The report is divided into several parts, as outlined in the sections below.
Student overview
The student overview section shows:
- Your overall results, including your score
- The average score of the class
- Statistics
Category performance
This section shows how well you did in each subject area (called categories). If a category has sub-categories, select the link (such as 3 Subcategories) to view the sub-category details.
Icons provide additional information for each category and sub-category:
- Green triangle: Your score
- Orange triangle: The class average score
- Black triangle: The national average (if applicable)
- Blue square: The score range of all exam takers
- Red triangle with exclamation mark: A score that is below the "at-risk" threshold percentage
- Yellow circle with exclamation mark: A score that is below the "needs review" threshold percentage
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Green circle with checkmark: A score of 70% or greater
Questions
This section displays the questions that you can review.
For each question, you'll see:
- Points earned
- Total points available
- How many categories are tagged to this question. You can select that number to see the category information.
Depending on the assessment settings, you may see:
- All questions on the exam
- Only the incorrect questions.
How answers are displayed:
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Multiple-choice and true/false questions:
- If you selected the correct answer(s): Green-highlighted text and a checkmark
- If you selected incorrect answer(s): Red-highlighted text and a "No" symbol
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Fill in the blank questions:
- If you entered a correct word/phrase to fill in a blank: Green-highlighted text and a green check mark
- If you entered an incorrect word/phrase: Red-highlighted text and a red no symbol for your entry, followed by the correct answer in bold, black type
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Hot spot questions: The correct hot spot location will be indicated with a green box.
- If your pin was in the correct location, it would be green.
- If your pin was in an incorrect location, it would be red.