New: Section Grades & Advanced Grading Criteria

We’re excited to introduce Section Grades and Advanced Grading Criteria, giving you greater flexibility and control over how assessment results are determined in Synap.

These new features make it easier to design exams that reflect real-world competency requirements, ensuring candidates demonstrate both overall knowledge and performance in key topic areas.

🟣 Section Grades

You can now define grade boundaries within individual exam sections, allowing you to measure performance across specific skills, topics, or competencies.

This enables assessment models such as:

• Requiring candidates to pass critical sections (e.g. Safety or Compliance)
• Monitoring performance across different skill areas
• Providing more detailed feedback in reporting
• Structuring exams around independent competencies
• Section grades are configured directly within the section builder and are calculated using a candidate’s score within that section.

🟢 Advanced Grading Criteria

You can now add additional conditions to overall grades, making it possible to enforce section-level requirements as part of the final grading decision.

For example, you can require candidates to:

• Achieve a minimum overall score
• AND pass specific sections
• OR pass all sections in an exam

This helps ensure that strong performance in one area cannot compensate for weak performance in critical topics.

🟣 Click here to learn more about section grades

🟢 Click here to learn more about advanced grading criteria