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Templates, tools and software

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This section holds the artifacts the rest of the guide refers to. An earlier page explains why a blueprint needs a certain shape. This section gives you the checks, the documents, and the calculators that turn that reading into a working exam.

Start with the readiness self-assessment. Twelve statements, ten minutes, one score. It says whether to run a summative OSCE next term or a formative one first. Each band names the section to read.

The templates page follows. It lists the eight documents an OSCE runs on. The station file is one of them, and it's a spreadsheet you can download and edit today. For each, the page says what it must contain and where in the guide it is explained.

Software comes next, in two parts. The requirements list is built for a tender and grouped by stage of the exam cycle. The calculators page covers three free browser tools. They handle standard setting, item analysis and checklist building. The page also says what each one cannot do. A pilot page then describes a working trial and what you keep afterward.

The section closes with reference material. There is a glossary of the operational terms, defined the way an exam office uses them. And there are the twenty sources this guide leans on hardest.

The exam office owns this section. The templates are free to adapt.

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