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What Candidates Need From an Exam Interface
Every exam measures two things — what the candidate knows, and how well they coped with the way it was presented. The second one is not supposed to be there. Navigation, flagging, shared reading material, and the review step, plus the eight settings that decide a candidate's experience by default.
By Dimitri · Aug 25, 2026
How to Structure a Question Bank for a Whole Degree Programme
Most question banks are structured once, by one person, in an afternoon. Three years later, nobody can find anything. Where the hierarchy should sit, what belongs in a tag instead, who owns an item, and how to keep a bank usable as the people who wrote it move on.
By Dimitri · Aug 23, 2026
Should Students See the Correct Answers After an Exam?
Showing candidates their answers is the most consequential setting in an exam system, and the one people leave on by default. What each layer of disclosure gives the candidate, what it costs the bank, why provisional results need saying out loud, and what to do when you cannot afford the answer key.
By Dimitri · Aug 20, 2026
How to Import Exam Questions From a Word Document
A practical guide to importing exam questions from Word. Block markers, the field grammar, how embedded images are matched back to their questions, which image formats convert, and where a document beats a spreadsheet.
By Dimitri · Aug 13, 2026
What to Check Before You Migrate a Question Bank
A practical pre-flight checklist for moving a question bank between exam systems. Which question types make it, why the bank tree is a second import, the metadata that disappears without warning, and how to test before you commit.
By Dimitri · Aug 13, 2026
What Reports Does a Board of Examiners Need?
Assessment governance mapped to the reports it serves. What to sign off before delivery, what to table after results, what to review annually, and why no system can approve a cut score for you.
By Dimitri · Aug 12, 2026
Is Your OSCE Cohort Big Enough for Borderline Regression?
A sourced answer to the cohort-size question in OSCE standard setting. What the resampling study actually measured, why later work overturned the headcount framing, the difference between per-station and per-exam n, and how to check whether your own cut score is stable.
By Dimitri · Aug 12, 2026
Fixed Forms or Random Selection? Choosing an Exam Assembly Strategy
A practical guide to exam assembly for exam offices and assessment leads. The three ways to build a paper, what question and answer randomisation each defeat, why a random draw does not produce equated forms, and how to tell whether your bank can support sampling at all.
By Dimitri · Aug 11, 2026
Can Online Exams Detect Cheating? What Software Really Sees
An honest taxonomy of online exam cheating detection for exam offices and teaching staff. Which methods raise a live event, which only show up in post-exam statistics, why a browser cannot see the room, and how to act on a flag without accusing an innocent candidate.
By Dimitri · Aug 11, 2026