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Egold CBT

Use case

Entrance exams that are fair, fast and ready to rank

Admission tests bring many unfamiliar candidates into the school on one day, often in several sittings. Egold CBT gives every candidate a timed paper with the questions in a different order, marks objective answers immediately and gives the admissions team a ranked list without hand-marking.

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A student writing an SS 2 Chemistry test in Egold CBT, with the timer and question map

Sound familiar?

  • Marking hundreds of entrance scripts by hand delays admission letters by days.

  • Candidates in a later sitting may hear the questions from an earlier group.

  • Results have to be typed into a spreadsheet before anyone can rank them.

How it works

  1. 1

    Register the candidates

    Candidates sign up with your school's join code, or you create their accounts. Put them in the "Entrance candidates" class so they see only the entrance paper, and move them to their new class once admitted.

  2. 2

    Set papers per subject

    English, Mathematics and General Knowledge can be one combined exam or separate papers. Add comprehension passages, tables and diagrams.

  3. 3

    Run several sittings

    Shuffle questions and options for every candidate. Each sitting's timer is controlled by the server, so refreshing a page gains nothing.

    Live invigilation in Egold CBT: students writing, progress, time left and warnings
    The invigilator's live view of candidates writing

  4. 4

    Rank and export

    Scores, percentages and positions are ready as soon as candidates submit. Export to Excel for the admissions meeting.

    Exam results in Egold CBT: average, grade counts from A1 to F9 and positions
    Score distribution, grades and ranked results after a test

What helps most

Different paper per candidate
Questions and options shuffle per candidate; answer keys never reach their computer.
Integrity warnings
Leaving the exam window, copying and pasting are recorded with the time.
Works without internet
On the offline server, the whole hall runs on the school network.
Same-day ranking
Positions and percentages without re-typing scores.

See every format on the question types page, or the full list of features.

Questions about entrance exams

Do candidates need their own email addresses?

Each account needs an email address to sign in with. If candidates do not have one, the school can create the accounts and print the sign-in details on each candidate's slip.

Can parents see the result?

Results stay inside the school's workspace. The admissions team decides what to share and how.

Can we run entrance exams without internet?

Yes, with the self-hosted version: one school computer is the server and the exam hall connects to it over the school network.

Other ways schools use it

CA tests & terminal exams

Weekly CA tests and end-of-term papers, set once and marked automatically.

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Automatic marking

Objective answers marked instantly, part marks where they are deserved, teachers keep the final say on theory.

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CBT practice for SS 3

Get final-year students comfortable with timed computer-based tests before external exams.

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Try it with your own questions.

Online use is free for schools. If your exam hall has no internet, run it on your own school server.

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