Today is the time of growing innovation. We see numerous improvements around us. One of these advancements is the accessibility of various methods of examinations.
Today, every examination or test is being adapted for delivery through an online mechanism. It is quite clear that exam conducting bodies are adopting online examination systems to make their lives simpler… The question we are exploring in this article is are there any benefits for students of this entire exercise?
It turns out that actually there are many benefits of adopting an online examination system for students as well. These are :
1. Usually online exams are more transparently conducted and provide faster results
2. Test navigation is easier when taking it, using an online examination system. This is because one can mark questions for review and return to them easily.
3. Changing answers are easier in an online examination system, unlike an OMR sheet. In an OMR sheet once one has circled the answer often even after rubbing with an eraser during scanning of such sheets errors will get reported. This can lead to faulty evaluation in physical OMR sheet based exams.
4. Online examination systems lend well to better analysis of question item performance. For example exam conducting bodies can easily review if a particular question is being answered wrongly by a large number of students. This usually indicates an out of a syllabus question item or maybe incorrect answer options. In traditional OMR based exams such analysis is rarely done as data is scattered and does not lend well to such type of analysis.
5. Online exams often provide additional flexibility in taking the exams may be at different intervals or at one’s own convenience
6. Online assessment delivered through online examination systems also often use a richer set of questions involving photos, videos or even audio which can be stored in the question bank management system. This provides totally different and immersive testing experiences.
Many test takers wrongly feel scared that they would need to take the test using an online examination system. As a process it is not too difficult and one can easily get habituated to selecting right responses and some might even find the experience simpler than circling bubbles in an OMR sheet.
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