Ages 5 to 8
Short questions and simple words, most of them true or false. A six-year-old can sit this one alone.
- 10 Signs of Allah
- 8 The Prophet ﷺ
- 4 Belief
- 4 Qur'an
- 4 Arabic
Inside a lesson
Live quizzes, and three you can try right now
A Bustan lesson is not a slide read aloud. Several times in every class a question appears on each child’s screen at the same moment, with a clock on it, and everyone answers. It is the part children ask for, and it is the part that tells a teacher what has actually landed.
How it works
What a live quiz does that a worksheet cannot
Everyone answers, not the quickest hand
In a class of two to four there is nowhere to hide, and the question goes to every child at once rather than to whoever puts a hand up first. A child who is unsure answers anyway, which is the only way anyone finds out that they were unsure.
The teacher sees it as it happens
Answers arrive on the teacher’s screen while the lesson is still running, so a misunderstanding is caught in the same class that caused it rather than in a marked book three days later.
The clock is deliberate
A few seconds per question keeps the pace of a lesson and stops a child quietly looking up the answer. It is short enough to be exciting and long enough to think.
Every answer carries its source
A child is told not only which option was right but where that comes from. The questions below each cite theirs, exactly as they do in class.
Scores become the progress you are shown
What a child scores is recorded as the work is done, with no separate submission for anyone to manage, and it is what the termly review is built from.
Nothing reaches a child unchecked
Questions are written against the lesson they test, tagged by subject, topic, age band and difficulty, and only released once they have passed both publication approval and subject-matter review.
Try one
Three quizzes, one for each age
These are on the faith half of what we teach — the Qur’an, the Prophet ﻢ, belief, Arabic and the signs of Allah in creation. Pick the age that fits your child and start; there is no sign-up, nothing is recorded and nothing is sent anywhere.
Ages 8 to 13
The heart of what we teach at this age, and the quiz most parents start with.
- 10 The Prophet ﷺ
- 10 Signs of Allah
- 4 Qur'an
- 3 Belief
- 3 Arabic
Ages 13 and up
Fuller questions, and the reasoning behind the answer rather than just the answer.
- 11 The Prophet ﷺ
- 11 Signs of Allah
- 5 Qur'an
- 3 Belief
Sitting it yourself is the point — most parents find out what they would like their child to be able to answer.
Before you start
Questions about the quiz
Is anything recorded?
No. The quiz runs entirely in your browser. Your child’s answers and score are never sent to us, there is no sign-up, and closing the tab ends it. The quizzes inside the platform are different — those are part of your child’s lessons and are recorded, which is what the progress reports are built from.
Where do the questions come from?
Every one carries its source, shown with the answer. The Seerah questions rest on Ibn Hisham, Ibn Kathir and Ar-Raheeq al-Makhtum; the Qur’an and Signs questions cite the sūrah and āyah. Nothing here was written from memory.
My child got a low score. Does that matter?
Not in the slightest, and it is not what the quiz is for. It is a sample of how a lesson runs and a way of seeing which of these a child has met before. What a teacher does with that in a real class is start at the right point, which is what the free trial class is for.
Why is there no maths or science in it?
Because these three were written for this website, on the faith half of the syllabus. The academic subjects are taught to your child’s own school board and assessed against it, so a generic quiz would tell you very little. Academic tuition explains how that side is taught.
Can a younger child do the older quiz?
Of course — nothing stops you, and plenty of parents try all three. The age bands describe how the questions are written rather than who is allowed to answer them.
The real thing is better than the sample
One free trial class, with a teacher who finds out where your child actually is.