Biz Quiz: how it works

Business 101, a college intro to business course as a game: every topic from beginner to mastered, misses that come back, a Business IQ that climbs, and a final exam.

Biz Quiz is a game for learning how business works. Open it from your apps or go to bizer.app/app/biz-quiz. It is free, and it's also its own iPhone app.

How you play

There's nothing to pick first. Tap Continue and you get the next five questions, right where you left off.

  1. Pick an answer and tap Check.
  2. Biz Quiz shows whether you were right and explains why, with the math when

there is some.

  1. Tap Continue for the next question.

Wrong answers never stop you. A question you miss comes back in your next round, marked Review: the same question the first time, a similar one on the same topic after that. Once you get it right, it comes back one more time a little later to make sure it stuck.

Topics, from beginner to mastered

Business 101 covers what a college intro to business course covers, in 17 topics. They follow the chapters of the open textbook many of those courses use, OpenStax *Introduction to Business*, and the topics of the DSST Introduction to Business exam, the test colleges accept for that course's credit:

  1. Business and the Economy
  2. Ethics and Social Responsibility
  3. The Global Marketplace
  4. Forms of Business Ownership
  5. Entrepreneurship and Small Business
  6. Management and Leadership
  7. Organizing a Business
  8. Human Resources and Labor Relations
  9. Motivating Employees
  10. Operations Management
  11. Products, Customers and Pricing
  12. Distribution and Promotion
  13. Information Technology
  14. Accounting
  15. Money and Banking
  16. Financial Management and Investing
  17. Law, Taxes and Risk

Continue carries on through the topics in that order, staying in the topic you were last in. You can also tap any topic, like Distribution and Promotion for marketing, and take it further on its own.

Each topic has a level: Beginner, Learning, Skilled, Advanced and Mastered. Levels come from answers you get right, not from how much you play. Getting to Mastered means meeting every question in the topic, getting them right, and having nothing in it still waiting to come back. Once you've met every question in a topic, playing it again practices your weakest questions there, so you can keep climbing.

The final exam

Once you've met every question in the course, the final exam opens: 34 questions, two from every topic, that you haven't seen before, and 28 right passes. If you don't pass, you see the topics you missed, can practice them, and take a fresh exam with different questions.

Biz Quiz teaches the material. It doesn't give college credit.

XP, streaks and badges

  • XP: 20 for each question the first time you answer it, 50 for each round

that brings new questions, and 100 for passing the final exam. Questions that come back for review are good practice but earn no more XP.

  • Streak: finish at least one round a day, by midnight where you are. Two

rounds in one day still count as one day.

  • Badges: First Step, Quick Thinker (a perfect round), Topic Master (a topic

taken to Mastered), Business Rookie (every question in Business 101), 3, 7 and 30-day streaks, and the Business 101 graduate badge. Badges and progress you've earned are never taken away.

Your Business IQ

Your Business IQ measures your business knowledge on one scale for the long run: 0 is no business knowledge, and 100 is the highest business mastery there is. Each course is worth a fixed part of it:

  • Business 101, the fundamentals: up to 20
  • Business 102, 201 and 202: up to 15 each
  • Advanced and expert courses still to come: the last 35

So mastering all of Business 101 puts you at 20. That's the fundamentals, not the top. Each course you master takes you further, and adding a new course never lowers your score.

Your score rises only with what you've shown you know, from your recent answers. It dips when you miss and recovers as you review, and XP doesn't move it. It shows one decimal, so you can see every round move it, and Progress shows how many points you've earned in each course. It is a learning score for Biz Quiz, not an intelligence test.

The IQ-style number

Once enough people have played Biz Quiz (1,000 learners who've each answered at least 15 questions), your Business IQ also shows as an IQ-style number, like a real IQ score: 100 is the average Biz Quiz learner, and every 15 points is one standard deviation above or below. It comes with how many learners you're ahead of, "Better than 79% of learners", and your 0 to 100 mastery stays right underneath it.

It's worked out from where your mastery falls among everyone else's, and refreshed every night. Until there are enough learners to compare with, you'll see the 0 to 100 score on its own.

Trying it without an account

Your first round needs no account: Open on Biz Quiz's App Market page takes you straight to it, signed in or not. Your answers stay on that device. When you sign in with Google or Apple, they move into your free Bizer account, graded again by Bizer, and anything you missed comes back in your next round. Your progress is yours, not a business's, so it follows you to any device and any business you work in.

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