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mrmystic
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I need help with a simple text study guide I am making for an upcomming exam. What it does is it gives you a qustion with multiple choice answers and you input the answers. My question is I want the program to store my correct wrong and right answers and then disply a percentile grade (ie You scored a 90%) when I am done. How do I go about doing this. Please take it easy on me because I am totally new to programming.
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One Common Ruin
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Posted: 31st Jan 2004 02:43
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I'm would suggest adding to your code like a point system (each question 10pts etc)
See code below:

And at the end add all the points up to get the total score.

Anyway hope that help

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mrmystic
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Thanks for the help but it still wasn't quite the answer I was looking for. What I need is some way to take the input from the answers right or wrong and give me a total score at the end of the program that
will display on the screen. I got the idea from when I was in the Air Force and we took our tests on the computer. The program would show you what questions you missed and also displayed your percentile score.
Would I use an array? If so how could I use it in the program? I just know I am stumped on this one.
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Posted: 31st Jan 2004 12:51
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if you have 50 questions in total then divide 100 by 50, giving 2, then allocate 2 points for every correct answer, something like this

blah.......
print "NEXT QUESTION!"
correct=3
print how would you finish the illustrated action?"
print
print "1...3 rubber bands and a greased pole"
print "2...a mud pool and vaseline"
print "3...carefully with a rubber hose and klaxon"
input selection
if selection=correct then points=points+2

then at the end of the program do this

if points<25 then print "you need to return to primer school, you got ",points,"%"
if (points >=25) and (points<75) then print "at least you can cross the road without help!, you got ",points,"%"
if points>=75 then print "intelligent life on Earth?, where did you leave your saucer?, you got ",points,"%"

or maybe something a little more tactful , cheers.

Mentor.

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mrmystic
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Thanks Mentor that code worked really well and it was just what I was looking for!
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In your code, every time a question is answered, inc a variable that stores how many questions were asked. If it was the correct answer, increase a variable that stores how many were correct. At the end, divide the correct/total and *100 to the get the percent.

Sorry I am not more detailed, I have to go now.

Good Luck

Xander Moser of Bolt Software
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