After you finish a quiz, you’ll see a score ring showing your session result — and below it, a Topic Mastery breakdown. These two numbers measure different things. Here’s exactly how each one works.
The large percentage ring at the top of your results shows how you did in this quiz session only. It is calculated by dividing correct answers by total questions and rounding down. So if you got 240 out of 241 correct, the ring shows 99% — not 100%. The ring resets every time you start a new attempt.
The Topic Mastery section beneath the ring works differently. Each percentage reflects your running average across every attempt you have ever made on questions belonging to that topic — not just today’s session. Every time you answer a question, the system adds 1 to that topic’s attempt count, and if you were correct, it also adds 1 to the correct count.
A single wrong answer in a previous session lowers the running average for every topic that question belongs to. Because Topic Mastery accumulates history, a topic with 2 questions where you answered one wrong in a past attempt will show 50% — even if you answered both correctly today. Your current session did raise the average, but past mistakes are never erased, only diluted by future correct answers.
Each topic bar is color-coded based on your cumulative mastery percentage:
Because the score is cumulative, the only way to raise it is to answer more questions in that topic correctly. Retaking the quiz shifts the average upward with every correct answer. A topic that sits at 50% after two attempts will rise to 67% after one more correct answer, and to 75% after two more. Steady repetition is more effective than a single perfect run.
In Learning mode you see whether each answer is right immediately, which can lead you to remember the feedback rather than the material. Exam mode hides all feedback until you finish, so every answer you give is a genuine test of what you know. Using Exam mode for revision runs builds more honest mastery scores and prepares you better for real tests.
Each question is tagged to the heading or section it came from in your source document. A well-structured document with distinct headings produces fine-grained topic categories, so you can see exactly which chapters or concepts need more work. A document without headings will group all questions under a single broad topic, making the breakdown less informative.