Selective slide scoring in Captivate 7

Hello there.
Let me present this as a scenario...
On Slide 1 I want the viewer to select A or B using buttons. If they select A they go to Slide 2 which has a question to answer. If they select B they go to Slide 3 that has a different question to answer. In both cases they then go to slide 4 and on through the presentation/quiz. They only ever answer the question on slide 2 OR slide 3, never both.
All that works fine and is easy. However, when the scores are totalled, the non-used slide counts as skipped, so the viewer can never score 100% and has always "missed" a slide.
How do I get the programme to ignore the slide that has not been required for the particular viewer?
Thanks.
Ivor.R.

So make slide 1 a pretest (yes, I just searched for "Branch aware" in the handbook PDF). I shall give that a go and report back, thanks (though in reality "slide 1" is in the middle of a quiz).
Here goes...
[UPDATE]
It will only let the pretest sit at the start of the quiz, unfortunately, so moving everything around is an option but not my preference at this point.
Thanks for the useful idea though.

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