Describe your program and its requirements. Makeform turns the rules into an interactive eligibility quiz with conditional questions, preliminary outcomes, and useful next steps.
Route eligible applicants to Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a scenario, customize its requirements, or send it to the builder. Each sample is a starting structure.
Audience
Residents checking whether a local support program fits
Format
Step-by-step screener with three outcomes
Prompt size
290 chars
Example quiz structure
Step-by-step screener with three outcomes
Do you live in our service area?
What is your age range?
How many people are in your household?
What is your household income range?
Your preliminary result
Suggested routing tags
Likely eligible
Needs review
Not currently eligible
Write each rule as a testable condition and include an unsure option.
Step 1
Ask
one clear question for each eligibility rule
Step 2
Branch
show only follow-ups relevant to the answer
Step 3
Evaluate
apply your published rules consistently
Step 4
Route
offer an application, review, or alternative
A better first step
Turn policy language into a guided conversation where people answer relevant questions and receive a practical next step.
Reveal a follow-up only when an earlier answer makes it relevant.
Map each requirement to a question and outcome staff can inspect and revise.
Send likely matches to an application, uncertain cases to review, and others to relevant resources.
Useful across programs
Start with the closest scenario, then insert your organization's actual criteria.
Screen for location, age band, household details, or program-specific circumstances.
Check schedules, prerequisites, equipment access, and experience.
Match availability, location, interests, and orientation requirements to roles.
Identify a fitting service path before asking for detailed contact information.
Build the screening flow
Begin with actual rules, test every branch, and route unclear answers to staff.
Separate required conditions from preferences, exceptions, and answers needing review.
Describe the audience, criteria, results, and destination for each result.
Add conditional logic, an unsure choice, and neutral outcomes. Test boundary values.
Share or embed the quiz and notify the team when a response needs review.
Quiz vs checklist vs application
An eligibility quiz is a preliminary guide, not a full application or final decision.
Field guide
Review the generated questions, branching rules, and outcome language with this guide.
Criteria map
Connect each criterion to the answer that meets it. Separate required conditions from helpful context.
Question wording
Translate internal terms into one idea per question. Use brief helper text where needed.
Conditional paths
Branch after decisive answers so applicants see only relevant questions and staff can test the flow.
Result logic
Add a review outcome for uncertain, incomplete, or exceptional circumstances.
Outcome screens
Label results as preliminary when staff or a later application decides participation, then state the next step.
Response routing
Tag each result and notify the team that owns its next step. Keep detailed intake separate.
Related tools
Pair the quiz with an application, intake form, assessment, or qualification flow.
FAQ
Practical answers for program teams building a clearer screening experience.
An eligibility quiz compares an applicant's answers with stated program requirements. It shows a preliminary result and routes the person to an application, staff review, alternative, or later opportunity. It is not a final decision when participation depends on documents, capacity, or judgment.
Ask one clear question for each condition that changes the result. Add conditional follow-ups, an unsure option, a review path, and a result screen with a next step. Save detailed personal information for the full application.
Yes. Connect answer combinations to likely eligible, needs review, or not currently eligible screens. Explain the preliminary result, offer a relevant link, and test edge cases before sharing.
Provide a Not sure option and route it to staff review or help finding the information. This path is useful for exceptions and requirements applicants may interpret differently.
Yes. Makeform includes unlimited free forms and responses. You can generate, edit, publish, and use the quiz without a response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Yes. Put the application link on the relevant result screen. Keep the result preliminary if staff must verify details, review information, or confirm space.
Review it when requirements, service areas, dates, thresholds, or capacity rules change. Test every path after editing a question, and assign an owner to keep the quiz aligned with program information.
Yes. Publish a shareable link or embed the quiz near the program description. Keep key requirements visible on the page, then use the quiz to guide visitors to the appropriate next step.
Give every applicant a clearer first step.
