Student Focus Quotient Quiz

What's Your Focus Quotient (FQ)?

What’s Your FQ? is a tool that can help you identify your current levels of focus, in an age of digital distractuons. It will help you to examine your digital behaviours and habits, your current performance and experiences at school and home, so that you can ascertain whether your focus skills are being compromised.

No identifying data is collected so please rest assured the results are completely anonymous.

Your FQ Assessment will provide you with an FQ score from Low Average to Superior.

Before You Begin

This assessment consists of 15 statements. For each statement, mark the level to which it applies, for a ‘typical’ week of work. Answer honestly to give you an accurate insight into Focus Quotient

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On an average day, how frequently do you check your phone each day?(Required)

Multiple times an hour (i.e. > 50 times per day).

Between 10-50 times a day.

Less than 10 times a day.

At dedicated times of the day, or strictly when I need to.

You’re on your way to school and realise you’ve left your phone at home. What do you do?(Required)

Panic and immediately head home to retrieve it. I couldn’t function without my phone.

Have heart palpitations, think about what you could do without your phone and then decide to head back to retrieve it.

It’s no big deal. It’s happened before and you coped just fine. In fact, I liked it and I would consider doing it again.

Where is your phone when you sleep?(Required)

Right beside my bed where I can get to it, switched on and volume up (I don’t want to miss a thing!)

In my bedroom and in my line of sight but switched to airplane mode or ‘do not disturb’.

In my bedroom. It’s out of my line of sight and switched to airplane mode or ‘do not disturb’ mode.

On silent, switched off and/or out of the bedroom completely. I need to sleep!

When you wake up in the morning, how often is your phone the first thing you reach for?(Required)

I always check it first thing (and always before I get out of bed).

I often check my phone when I wake up.

I occasionally check my phone first thing after I wake up.

I never check my phone when I wake up (it’s not even in my bedroom).

What’s your relationship with social media?(Required)

I can’t live without it. I jump from TikTok to SnapChat, and back to TikTok,all in five minutes and then repeat this cycle constantly, checking for updates and notifications. I’m also constantly posting.

I check my social media regularly throughout the day, also whenever I get an alert or notification, or when I’m simply bored.

I check social media at scheduled times of the day and try to stick to these limits.

Once a day for a very short period of time (if at all), or at an as-needs basis.

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How often do you use and check your SMS and/or DMs?(Required)

Around the clock. I’ve even been known to send messages at 1am.

Whenever I’m awake and hear the ping of my notifications.

I nibble on my SMS and DMs throughout the day. If I hit a challenging step in my school work, or if I’m bored, I dive into my messages.

At scheduled times of the day. I’ve set up an autoresponder to let people know when I’ll likely be able to respond.

You hear the ping of a notification. What do you do?(Required)

Check it immediately, of course. I need to respond urgently.

Glance at the notification and scan if it’s urgent and then keep on doing what I was doing before the ping.

Ignore it and keep doing what I was doing before I was interrupted. I know I can easily go down the digital rabbit hole if I open it.

What notification? I’ve disabled notifications. I also bundle notifications to arrive at specific times of the day when I’m not doing focused work (i.e. happy to be distracted).

On average, how long can you study without a digital distraction interrupting you (e.g. how long could you work on your essay or homework without the ping of a notification)?(Required)

<10 minutes if I’m lucky. I lose focus pretty easily.

For about 10-20 minutes. Max. Then I’ll either hear a notification ping, or I’ll just do a sneaky check of one of my social media accounts.

I turn off or manage most of my digital distractions if and when I need to stay focused on my homework or study. I’ve disabled non-essential notifications.

I turn off or manage all of my digital distractions all of the time. I’m totally in control of what and who interrupts me. I’ve bundled my notifications and often activate Do Not Disturb or Focus mode on my various devices when doing homework and/or studying.

How often do you use your phone in social situations when you probably shouldn’t be using it (e.g. crossing the road, when out with your family or friends, at the movies)?(Required)

I regularly do this.

I often do this, even though it angers/disappoints my family/friends and myself at times.

I rarely do this. I really try hard to resist digital distractions.

I never do this. I’ve set up Screen Time or use Google Wellbeing to make sure important calendar events automatically activate the ‘Do Not Disturb’ function and I always turn off my phone or leave it in another room when I’m with my friends/family.

How do you generally use alerts and notifications on your devices (i.e. phone, laptop, tablets)?(Required)

They’re pinging and beeping all the time (and I worry I’ve lost service if I have a few minutes of respite). Pings and dings are the sound track of my day.

They’re switched on for particular apps but I check them most of the time as they come through.

I have limited alerts and notifications switched on my devices.

I’ve turned off all alerts and notifications on every device I own.

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How often do you multitask?(Required)

All the time (I’m answering this quiz, whilst checking my DMs and notifications).

Most of the time! I just can’t help it.

Some of the time, even though I know I shouldn’t do it.

Never. I know how much it affects my ability to focus.

You’re doing some challenging homework. What do you do?(Required)

I have my homework in front of me, with my phone pinging next to me (if I own one) and there is a lot of noise and people interrupting me.

I try to find a quiet place to do my homework, but before long my brother/sister/parents are distracting me and I forgot to put my phone on Do Not Disturb mode (if I have one) so I’m easily distracted.

I’ve found a quiet place to do my homework, put ‘Focus’ mode on but do a quick check of my DMs, SMS and notifications every half an hour or so (just in case I miss something).

I shut the door (if I have one, or put on some headphones if I don’t), put a sign up that says ‘Do Not Disturb’ and put my phone (or any other digital distraction)in my drawer so I can tackle my homework without interruption.

How often do you go for a walk/run/catch public transport without listening to something on your headphones?(Required)

Never- do people really go out without headphones these days?

Very rarely. I’m usually listening to music with my headphones.

Occasionally- I love to daydream every now and then.

Regularly! I love to get about without headphones, most, if not all of the time. This is when I often come up with great ideas, or solve problems I’ve spent a fair bit of time thinking about.

You’re waiting for your friend to arrive at the park or the bus/train stop. It will be a five-minute wait. What do you do with this time?(Required)

Tap, swipe, pinch on my phone. I’m never ‘bored’.

I have the best of intentions to just wait and daydream, but the minute I hear an alert, I’m sucked into my phone.

Wait for a couple of minutes and then pull out my phone and start tapping, swiping and pinching… even though I know I should just enjoy the free time and be bored.

Enjoy the moments of peace. I let myself daydream. I love these moments!

How long can you read a book or magazine or watch TV before becoming distracted?(Required)

I rarely if ever have time for reading… I’m often glued to my phone. If I’m watching TV I’m multi-screening- TV on and phone in my hand.

Short periods of time. I’ve realised just how easily I get distracted by devices and how much I rely on them now… especially when I find myself tapping and pinching my book or magazine!

I can do a solid 30-60 minutes, but notice I can become distracted, especially if my phone is in close proximity.

Hours at a time. I love the time to think deeply and get lost in a book, a magazine or a movie.

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