Scoring & Results

How a quiz scores decides what someone sees at the end, and what you see when their answer arrives. You choose one of four ways.

The four scoring modes

Overall score gives one score from 0 to 100, mapped to result bands you define. Good for anything shaped like "how are you doing on this one thing?".

Category scores gives a score per category, each shown as low, medium or high. Good when the answer is not one number — sleep, stress and nutrition scored separately, say.

Outcome sorts people into buckets by rules you write, rather than by a score. Good for "which of these three is right for you?".

Capture only does not score at all. The quiz collects answers and nothing more.

Pick the one that matches the answer you actually want to give. A quiz that produces a number nobody can act on is worse than one that produces a plain recommendation.

Results

Under the Results tab you write what each band, category or outcome tells the person — and what you would like them to do next.

That call to action is the part worth spending time on. Someone who has just spent two minutes answering questions about themselves is more willing to hear a suggestion than at any other point.

Naming your bands

Your result bands are yours. Whatever you call them is what you and your visitors see — Helm does not impose a set of names on your quiz.

Scoring happens on our side

Answers are scored when they arrive, not in the visitor's browser, and they are scored against the published version of the quiz they actually took. Editing a live quiz never rescores or disturbs answers that came in before the change.