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Methodology

How Insporta writes a test

The rules every Insporta question is written by: what it may measure, how long it may be, how distractors are built, how facts are checked and how repetition is kept out.

  1. 01How Insporta writes a testEvery Insporta test is ten questions with four options and one key, written to nine rules that keep it measuring sport knowledge and nothing else.Updated 6 September 2026
  2. 02Levels and sub-levels: how a sport is laid outEach sport has a ladder of ten levels from Beginner to Professional, split into named sub-levels of tests. Levels are sized to the material, not padded.Updated 6 September 2026
  3. 03What a question may measureAn Insporta question tests sport-specific knowledge: rules, tactics, craft, history and context. General cognition, reaction speed and training loads are out.Updated 6 September 2026
  4. 04A question must stand on its ownAnyone who knows the sport must be able to answer an Insporta question without a source in hand. Questions about what a document says measure nothing.Updated 6 September 2026
  5. 05Reading load and lengthStems run 60 to 180 characters, options stay under 80 and within 30 of each other, and the key must not be the longest option more often than chance.Updated 6 September 2026
  6. 06How distractors are builtEach wrong option must be plausible to someone who half-knows the topic and clearly false to someone who knows it, with no invented rules and no absolutes.Updated 6 September 2026
  7. 07Evidence, claims and safetyExplanations are read as settled fact, so contested claims are marked, strong evidence is not hedged, numbers carry dates and safety answers name the channel.Updated 6 September 2026
  8. 08No question twiceThe bar for a new question is that the question is new, not the topic. Contrapositive pairs, one fact under several tests and perspective tests all fail it.Updated 6 September 2026
  9. 09Fact-checking and quality gatesA batch passes structural checks, a length-signal check, distractor-tell counts, duplicate review and a fact check by a person against the primary source.Updated 6 September 2026
  10. 10Sources we write fromInsporta questions are authored from the IFAB, FIFA, MCC, ICC, World Triathlon and Ironman rulebooks and from coaching literature, cited but never reproduced.Updated 6 September 2026