Branching quiz based on unanswered questions

I'm using Captivate 5.5 to design an awareness module that contains 2 short knowledge checks at key points in the module (around 5-6 questions for each). The knowledge checks aren't compulsory and learners can move freely backwards and forwards through the module, and therefore can skip questions.
We want to encourage them to answer all the questions (but not force them to if they don't want to). I've thought of branching the module at the end, with uncompleted questions branching to a reminder slide, and all questions completed going to a summary of the module.
The way I've tried to do this is to use an Advanced Action with the CpQuizInfoTotalUnansweredQuestions variable to trigger the branching. This works okay if the learner doesn't move backwards. Once they go backwards past a question they haven't answered yet it will be counted as unanswered a second time. This means that there is no way they can ever get the variable to 0 and then move to the summary slide.
Is there any way to use the CpQuizInfoTotalUnansweredQuestions variable to get it counting the unanswered questions correctly?
The other way I had thought of doing it was to add another variable that changes when the branching/reminder slide is visited the first time, and having the Advanced Action check the variable to see if the slide has been visited before and if it has then it forces the slide to be skipped. This would assume that the learner went back and found and answered all the questions they missed or decided not to answer them all.
Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

My latest blog post has a work flow, not totally the same because it is meant for Review status, but can easily be translated to make your last scenario possible.
http://lilybiri.posterous.com/review-only-incorrect-slides-captivate-6
Lilybiri

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Lilybiri, Thank you for the quick response. I put the screen capture while reading your blog now. This is the first time I'm trying to use quiz in Captivate so I'm not familiar with some of the terms.
> But I'm wondering if you are using default Question slides or custom question slides, because you talk about storing in user varaibles. Could you try to explain exactly what you are using and what you want to achieve, more specifically if you want to report the score to a LMS or not?
I'm trying to create is a template for soft skill simulations. Maybe a video playback of a situation and ask the learn what to do next. The user clicks on a choice. It provides feedback (or not) and goes to a slide based on the user choice. I would evaluate using the variable totalScore and choice user made in each step. At the end, I would pass that data to Lectora.
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