As the world is moving towards digitization, even some of the most world’s prestigious examinations are going digital as well.
GRE was the first entrance exam to have an online exam in 1993. This was followed by GMAT & CAT in 1997, 2009 respectively.
A very recent addition in the family is GATE which turned digital in 2014.
Now, not only academic entrance examinations, even corporate sectors like banks, private companies, they are going online for their exams.
What are the advantages of adopting an online testing format?
Environment-Friendly
This is one of the major benefits of online testing. This kind of eco-friendly and forward-thinking approach to daily processes is essential in a world where students can graduate into an environmental crisis caused by climate change.
Security of Examination Papers
Any online examination has the flexibility & security system imbibed in it. Once all the questions are uploaded in the system, the system can shuffle and give questions in different orders to different students. This minimizes the chance of malpractice.
Technologically Forward
Nowadays, the use of pen & paper is reducing. Most of the work is done with email, text messages, presentation machines, computer-based development, etc. Using online examinations helps the students or new professionals to get accustomed to a range of interfaces to get them ready for the real world.
Reduces Labor & Logistic costs
Do you the amount of labor & logistics that is used to set-up a single examination?
From teachers, exam papers, electricity, etc, all of the cot can be drastically reduced by online tests.
Look, mainly there are two types of online assessment tests that are being conducted in the country.
One is an academic-based test & another is a professional examination.
Academic Tests
Four of the major academic tests GATE, AIIMS, CAT & JEE advances are being conducted by TCS.
TCS is the market leader in this industry. TCS uses its software called TCS -iON for conducting these exams.
TCS provides end-to-end services to configure and schedule examinations. This includes creating online assessments, configuring attendance & hall tickets, creating drives, managing exam slots. It even provides support services.
Professional Examination
Exams like IBPS, BSNL & SSC have also gone online.
Sify, a major competitor in this industry conducts SSC & BSNL professional exams. Sify is an Indian IT company that has its own software platform known as “Talent Management Online Examination Services”.
For IBPS & SBI, it is handled again by Tata Consultancy Services.
However, For IBPS, Sify handles student registration, Tata Consultancy Services handles the allocation of the center to students, conducts online exam, evaluation and results publishing.
Companies are now investing thousands of money on examination software systems. Even tutorials like Unacademy are gaining profits due to these competitive exams being held online.
Let’s talk about some of the most popular examination software available in the market.
TCS–iON
It is one of the leading online examination software in the market.
They have a number of services including online and offline assessments, configuring attendance and hall tickets, creating drives, managing exam slots, and assigning test centers to candidates.
As discussed before, they are responsible for holding a few of the most prestigious academic as well as professional tests in the country.
Few of their features are:
Security
The question papers are uploaded onto the iON data center on the exam day, and the password to download papers is provided an hour before the exam.
So they are completely secured & the 256-bit encryption mode makes it all the more safe to use.
Efficiency
It is reported that the turnaround time for delivering an assessment is significantly reduced to approximately three to four weeks as against nine months, required for a paper-pencil exam today. This makes TCS-iON very efficient to use.
Scalability
TCS has access to a wide network of dedicated test centers spread across the length and breadth of the country.
They have an impressive 1.7 lakh candidates in more than 200 cities across India appearing at a single time.
Think exam
With clients like Akash Institute, T.I.M.E, Daimer, ICAI, WHO, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, think exam prepares candidates to perform extraordinarily.
They have some very interesting features like:
Highly Interactive Interface
They have great features like a click to the next trick, simple registration, easy test and quiz creation, signing- in, synchronized processing, secured encoding and decoding of information and more.
Highly advanced reporting system
They have an instant scoreboard generation, computational analysis, efficient feedback sharing to boost up your performance and precision. This drilled method will actually make the candidate perform much better.
Security
Their security system is quite on point. They have secured multi-payment gateways with triggered notification channels along with custom SSL certificates with trusted and tested IP functionality.
Eklavvya
It is an AI-driven online exam platform for automated objective, subjective assessments powered with intelligent proctoring and analytics
They basically deal with exam scheduling, Auto Proctoring of Exam for Authenticity Conduct Exam in multiple Languages, Secure Browser for Exam Security & Result Analytics.
Some of their interesting features are:
· Camera View of the Remote Candidate
· Screen View of Candidate During Exam Activity
· Live Chat by Invigilator with Candidate
· Image Capture of candidate with Web Camera
· IP Based Audit Logging
· Live Chat with Remote Invigilator
· Control Remote Exam by invigilator
Along with these, they have few other benefits like a highly scalable system, detailed analysis of Results of each evaluation & online registration, payment structures.
JobTestPrep
This software is to evaluate examinations of the corporate sectors. They give tailored tests by job level, profession, provider, and employer. They give timed tests, score reports, and the confidence needed to succeed.
They also have a great customer support system for 24/7.
In the future, most of the internal & external examinations are to be held by online assessments. Institutes, Colleges, Coaching and Training centers are know transforming to online computerized assessment and they all are getting various benefits from same
Also, along with this, there is a huge market for VR classes, online education.
Developing online test software can be highly beneficial as the world is going all digital day by day.
If you are looking to develop a customized online software you’re your examination needs, contact us at skyram Technologies. Our highly professional development team will bring you the most user-friendly, efficient platform for online tests. Contact us here!
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