Can MS Forms score different sections separately?

Question

Hi, I need to create a form in MS Forms but I need to break it out into 4 sections and each section needs to be scored separately. Can MS Forms do this? Or do they only score the entire form as a whole?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Hi @Camille P,

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A forum.

Unfortunately, Microsoft Forms does not currently support scoring sections separately. The scoring feature in MS Forms applies to the entire form as a whole and there isn't an out-of-the-box way to break it into multiple scoring segments for different sections of the form.

Here are a couple of workarounds you can try:

1. Use multiple forms (one per section)

• You could create multiple forms, one for each section of the quiz and then assign a score to each form. After collecting the results, you'd need to combine the scores manually.

2. Use sections within a single form but manually score each section

• If you prefer to keep everything within one form, you can still use sections within the form to organize questions.
• Although MS Forms will only give a total score for the whole form, you can manually review responses by section and then calculate the scores separately.
• You could also use branching to direct users to different sections, but this wouldn’t affect the scoring - it just makes the form flow more dynamic.

3. Export responses to Excel:

• After collecting responses, you can use Excel formulas to calculate scores per section based on question grouping.

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