BTFS Karnataka

The Background

Biotechnology Finishing Schools (BTFS) is an initiative of the Karnataka government in association with the Vision Group, ABLE and Industry representatives has developed a mechanism to provide employment opportunities in Biotechnology. The Government of Karnataka has initiated establishment of finishing schools across the state. Twelve BT Finishing Schools (BTFS) have been established in Karnataka with appropriate course content and duration to equip graduates and post-graduates with necessary employable skills and to make them industry ready.

Challenge

The KBAT Aptitude Test 2012 will be conducted online wherein students across India can give the exams from their place. Students were supposed to register inline in the site after paying the registration fees. The exam will consist of 100 questions selected randomly from a pool of 3600 questions. The 100 questions were supposed to be fetched from 12 different categories with number of questions specified for each category. One student can give the exam only once. Answer options too should come on a random basis.

Solution

AmkaysWeb developed a solution which was feature rich

The student can view the questions only after he logs in with his user name and password.
Questions were randomly fetched from the pool of 3600 questions
Answer options were randomly arranged
Count down timer was shown to keep track of elapsed time
Only one question was displayed on the screen at a time
Option to skip the questions
Negative marking for wrong answer
AJAX used so that the time taken to fetch the questions form server was not taken into account irrespective of the internet speed.
Feature rich admin panel to access student data for questions attempted, time taken, individual scores and many more