How do Bookroo quizzes work?

Every Bookroo quiz is built fresh from a bank of questions written for that book. Each quiz is drawn from across the whole book, with a little more from the end, and a retake usually gets different questions.

Length

A book whose question bank is still small can have a shorter quiz for now.

How are quizzes leveled?

By the book, not the student. A quiz asks about that book's story, and its length comes from the book (above). Bookroo doesn't make a quiz easier or harder for a student's reading level: their level never changes a quiz's length, its questions or the score needed to pass.

A student's ZPD changes two things around the quiz, not the quiz itself: a book above their ZPD, or with no known level, can need the monitor password (when the class asks for it only on those books), and a book below it earns reduced points. See Reading levels and ZPD.

Passing

• The default pass mark is 60% for 5- and 10-question quizzes and 70% for 15- and 20-question quizzes.
• You can set each length anywhere from 60% to 80% under Settings → Quizzes: click the scores in "They pass with …".

Retakes

• A student who doesn't pass can try again after 14 days by default. Change it (3–90 days) by clicking the days in "can retry a failed or abandoned quiz after 14 days" in Settings.
• Each new quiz favors the book's least-asked questions, so a retake mostly gets questions the last attempt didn't use, and answer choices are reshuffled. Memorizing the last attempt doesn't help.
• There's no cap on attempts. Once a quiz is passed, it can't be retaken.
• To let one student retry sooner, see Change a retake date or certify.

Other quiz settings

Settings → Quizzes also has:

• don't need a password / type the password "…": set a password, and students need it to start a quiz.
• must finish a quiz in one go / can leave a quiz and finish it within 8 days: with the second, a student can come back to an unfinished quiz for up to 8 days. In one go (the default), an unfinished quiz is abandoned after 60 minutes.