Features of Computer Based Test
FIRST TUTORIAL “CBT”
(1) One-Student-One-Computer:
This testing system is based on one person per computer
system at a particular time.
As always expected of a good student, you are advised to
enter the examination hall only with the approved
examination materials. The candidate will sit close to the
computer system, maybe a laptop computer or a desktop
computer.
The candidate will face the computer screen awaiting the
invigilators command “START”. Some Exams like the ones
mostly administered by PEARSON are strictly on computer
based while some others may be dual, i.e both computer
and paper.
In the latter, the students or examinee is given
examination question paper and they will be required to
answer their questions on the computer unlike the former,
the students or the examinee are not given any question
paper. Here the questions are on the computer screen
while the examinee chooses their seemingly correct
answers by right clicking the radio button.
(2) Computer Based Test Desktop, How does it look like?
All computer desktops contain icons for simple computer
user interaction with the computer system. It uses the
WYSIWYG theory. That means what you see is what you
get. Depending on the type of test, the computer screen
might be preset to the START page where the examinee
will just have to fill in their personal details which is
sometimes part of the exams itself. No matter what exams
it is, the basic icons that will be found in the screen will
not be very far from what I will explain below in point
number three.
(3) What are the notable desktop icons for Computer Based
Test (CBT)?
(a) The START Button:the time that every exam
commences is the “START” period and the time that the
exam ends is the “STOP” button.
Examinees should be very watchful of this button as it the
paramount of all.
(b) Time and Progress:Immediately when you click start,
the clock timer begins to count, which indicates the
progress of the exams. This also indicates the time that is
remaining for the exams. At any point of the exams, at
least you should be able to see how much time remaining
for you.
(c) Question Counter:just like the time counter, there is
also questions timer.
This indicates how many questions you have answered and
how many are remaining. So you will not likely be in a loop
while writing computer based test.
For instance you are writing a 50 question exams and you
are on the eleventh question, the question timer will
indicate something like “question 11 of 50. Meaning that
you still have 39 questions unanswered.
Simple maths isn’t it?
(d) Test Navigations:This feature of a computer based test
is as important as the test itself and they are always
available on the test screen throughout the test session.
Notable of the navigations are (1) “NEXT” which goes to
the next question when clicked, clicking next moves you
the next screen
(2) “PREVIOUS”, this gives the examinee the opportunity to
go back to earlier answered question, she they changed
their mind towards the ostensibly correct answer. Clicking
PREVIOUS moves you back one screen,
(3) “SUBMIT” this is the most important of all the buttons,
because there is nothing as bad as writing a test without
submitting it. You will not have your score if you did not
submit your test.
Clicking submit button submits the test or exams and
sometimes closes the exam window. This at times marks
the STOP of the exams.
(e) The Scroll Bar:Some test may not fit on the screen.
For these questions, a scroll bar will appear.
To reveal the rest of the questions, either you use the
mouse to click drag the scroll bar or click on the arrows on
either end of the scroll bar.
How Do You Choose the Correct Answers?
Most times, the questions in computer based test are in
the multi-choice format. This is called multi Choice
Question where you will be required to pick the correct
answer(s).

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