Question-by-question analysis
The Questions tab on an assessment shows you how your class did on each individual question, side by side. It’s where you spot the questions that worked, the ones that didn’t, and the ones that surprised you.
Getting there
Open any assessment with marked submissions and click the Questions tab. (The tab is hidden until you’ve marked at least one submission.)
What you’ll see
For each question in the assessment, the Questions tab shows:
- Question number and short text — so you can identify it at a glance
- Average mark — the mean across all students who answered
- Difficulty — how hard the question turned out to be, relative to the marks available
- Distribution — how marks are spread for that question
- Outliers — students whose mark was unusually high or low for that question
Using the tab
A few patterns to look for:
- Easy questions across the board — maybe useful as warm-ups, but consider raising the challenge.
- Hard questions across the board — the question may need re-teaching, or the marking criteria may be unforgiving. Worth reviewing the mark scheme.
- Wide spread — the question genuinely differentiated. Often the most useful question type.
- Tight clusters with outliers — the outliers are often where the interesting work is. Look at those individual submissions.
Click into any question to see the individual student marks and answers for it.
Reordering and focusing
You can sort the question list by difficulty, by mark, or by question number. Useful when you want to spend time on the hardest questions first.
Cross-referencing
For the why behind a tough question — what specifically students got wrong — jump to the Misconceptions report tab.
Need help?
Click the chat icon in the app or email connect@marking.ai.
FAQs
What does “difficulty” mean here?
It’s a relative measure — how the class’s average compares to the marks available. A question marked at 2/5 on average is harder than one marked at 4/5. The label is for quick scanning, not a precise score.
Can I use this to update questions before next term?
Yes — it’s one of the best things to do with this tab. Spotting which questions worked and which didn’t makes the next paper better.
What if too many questions are coming back hard?
That could be a teaching gap, an over-tight mark scheme, or an unusually tough cohort — the Misconceptions tab and individual Mark details usually point at the cause.