Live Online Quiz
Mobile App & Registration
Download the App: The Tamil Theni Quiz is now exclusively available on our Mobile App. Download "Tamil Theni Live Quiz" on your iOS or Android device to participate.
Registration:
- Sign in using your Google or Apple account.
- Profile Setup: Go to Menu » Profile to enter the Student Name and select your School/Club from the list.
- Note: If your school is not listed, please contact info@tamiltheni.org to ensure your scores are correctly attributed.
Quiz Schedule & Formats
The Quizzes screen lists both upcoming and past quizzes. You can join a quiz when it goes Live.
Which Quiz should I join?
- Theni 1 & Theni 3: Join the quiz marked for your format.
- Theni 4: Join the quiz marked for Theni 4.
- Theni 2: We currently do not have a specific quiz for Theni 2. We recommend participants join Theni 1 or Theni 3 quizzes for practice.
New Features
🎙️ Practice Mode:
New to voice answering? Jump into the "Practice Area" to get familiar with the microphone mechanics and warm up
before the live competition. (Practice scores are not published).
📈 Progress Tracking:
Track your learning journey on the Home page!
- Outer Circle: Shows your ranking against other users.
- Inner Circle: Shows how many words from our curated list you have mastered (answered correctly).
- Difficulty Icons: Middle icons represent the weight/difficulty of questions you have successfully answered.
🏆 Leaderboard:
View top performers for the current session or check the "Overall" tab to see cumulative rankings across all quizzes
for your category.
How to Play
Theni 1 & Theni 3 (Audio Quiz)
Requires microphone access. Please use the Practice Area in the app to test your audio and ensure the app correctly captures and transcribes your voice.
- Auto-Listening: Unlike the old system, you do not need to hold a mic button.
- Answering:
- When the question appears, the app automatically starts listening.
- Simply speak your answer clearly.
- You can see a live transcript of what the app hears.
- You can attempt the answer multiple times while the timer is running.
- Tip: Use the Practice Area to get comfortable with this new interaction!
Theni 4 (Multiple Choice)
- Question: An English word or sentence will appear.
- Answering: You will be given multiple Tamil translation options. Select the correct one.
Scoring & Timer:
Top Right: Your Current Score.
Top Left: Top scorer in the current live quiz session.
Bottom Middle: Time remaining for the current question (displayed prominently below the question).
FAQ
Registering to take Quiz is just a sign-in process using valid Google account AND setting School/Club in the Profile page.
Once both these are completed, you should be able to see the JOIN button enabled for an active Quiz.
You can confirm your registration by ensuring you are logged (Menu-Login) and Menu-Profile-School has valid school selection.
Yes, a person can take same Quiz multiple times when scheduled, and can also take multiple Quiz levels.
All scores and levels they attempted for the active competition year (Aug to Jun) will be shared with their school / club who will decide if they choose the first score for the Theni format being evaluated for.
No, no specific word list is provided for the Quiz. Any preparation for the actual competition will indeed help in taking the Quiz, including practicing published word lists.
Quiz will start at the scheduled time.
We recommend participants to attend one or more Practice sessions (scheduled usually a day before). At the practice session, you can confirm your registration, school profile setting, audio recordings, how to submit errors etc.
Practice sessions will also have a Zoom/Meet session to take Q&A. Final Quiz sessions will not have any live person to answer your questions or troubleshoot technical issues.
Quiz times shown in Quiz web app (https://quiz.tamiltheni.org) are automatically shown in your devices timezone. So, if you are using a Windows laptop from Phoenix, AZ and your computer is set to MST, time shown should be local to your time.
In message window (in Home page) when time is mentioned, time zone will be mentioned explicitly.
No, unlike in the actual competition, in Quiz, there will be no live person to interact with the Quiz takers.
If the children are too young to read, we recommend a responsible adult to ONLY help read the English word and in some cases help with clicking within the app.
The Quiz app itself doesn’t check for participants age.
We recommend following the same age restrictions used for the competitions (refer to Competitions web page for date of birth / age calculation).
The scores will be sent to the School/Club who will use their internal age references as part of the team selection process.
Scores will be displayed live as the Quiz progresses in user’s screen. Users can also see their last score in their Profile page.
Leaderboard will show the top 10 of the active / last quiz.
A day after the quiz, any adjustment to the score (after error reports are reviewed by Quiz team), will be reflected in the web app.
Adjusted scores will be sent to the respective school/club and Zonal Coordinators.
