The WordPress LMS built for mock tests and competitive exams
Turgor Exam Engine is a more complete exam platform than LearnDash, with everything already built in: courses, quizzes, timed competitive exams with negative marking, certificates and a student dashboard, all native and included in one price. Import your existing courses in one click, or start fresh.
Verified migration from LearnDash
Courses, quizzes, questions, student enrolments, progress & quiz history — imported and checked before you switch.
Negative marking
Per-topic, plus "evaluate first N answered" scoring
Fullscreen lockdown
Exits logged as violations, auto-submits after 3
Student analytics
One shortcode: scores, percentiles & Chart.js graphs
Bulk question import
Excel, Word, JSON, plus live Google Sheets sync
Live analytics
Chart.js dashboards — completion, scores, engagement
Exam-first data
Attempts, progress and results in tables built for them
Certificates, automatic
PDF certs generated and emailed on completion
One-click migration
Courses, quizzes & progress from LearnDash, verified before go-live
The screens your students actually use
Every screen below is native to Turgor Exam Engine — progress tracking, courses, performance analytics, and the full timed-exam experience, all in one plugin.
Your score: 58% · Avg: 52%
| Test | Date | Score | Correct/Wrong | Skipped | Class avg | Percentile | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSIR-NET Life Sci… | 4 Sept | 58% | 84 / 32 | 28 | 55% | 61st | TopicsReview |
| CSIR-NET Life Sci… | 4 Sept | 62% | 90 / 30 | 24 | 55% | 68th | TopicsReview |
| CSIR-NET Life Sci… | 4 Sept | 66% | 96 / 28 | 20 | 55% | 77th | TopicsReview |
| CSIR-NET Life Sci… | 4 Sept | 71% | 104 / 26 | 14 | 55% | 92nd | TopicsReview |
Everything a competitive-exam platform needs — none of which stock LearnDash has.
LearnDash is built for courses, not competitive exams — that's not a criticism, it's just not what its quiz engine was designed to do. Negative marking, fullscreen lockdown, a real student dashboard, and bulk question import don't exist in LearnDash on their own. In Turgor Exam Engine, they're native.
| Turgor Exam Engine | LearnDash | |
|---|---|---|
| Courses & lessons | Included | Included |
| Certificates | Included | Included |
| Setup time | Live in one afternoon, sensible defaults | 40+ settings pages before your first course |
| Numerical answers (GATE, JAM) | Accepted within a range | Not built in |
| Negative marking | Native, per-topic | Not available |
| Fullscreen exam lockdown | Native, strike-based auto-submit | Not available |
| Student dashboard | Streaks, heatmap, weak-lesson detection | Not available |
| Admin analytics | Live Chart.js dashboards, built in | No built-in equivalent |
| Bulk question import | Excel, Word, live Google Sheets sync | Manual entry only |
| Exam engine | Purpose-built for timed competitive exams | General course-quiz engine |
| Migration from LearnDash | 100% verified, one-click import wizard | — (source platform) |
| Price | From $59 one-time, everything above included | Separate license; exam features not included |
Free core + Pro add-ons
Everything in Turgor Exam Engine, piece by piece
The free plugin runs courses and mock tests on its own. One Pro licence switches on every add-on and Pro feature below. Nothing is sold separately.
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Pro add-onPro
Exam Mode
The computer-based exam screen students sit on the day.
- Question palette and mark for review
- Sectional timers and cut-offs
- Partial and negative marking
- English / Hindi papers and a scientific calculator
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CoreFree
Mock tests & question bank
Timed papers built from one shared bank of questions.
- Eight question types, including numeric ranges
- Negative marking, sections and retake limits
- Random questions drawn from a category
- Live tests with open and close times
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Pro add-onPro
Quiz Toolkit
Your question bank in, in minutes.
- Import and export Excel and CSV
- Import straight from Word documents
- Sync live from a Google Sheet
- Bad rows reported, not saved
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Pro add-onPro
Student Dashboard
A reason for students to come back tomorrow.
- Scores over time
- Progress in every course
- A study streak
- Question-by-question review of any attempt
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CoreFree
Results & question analysis
Every attempt, and which questions went wrong.
- Every attempt on one Results screen
- Essay marking and re-marking
- Question analysis, hardest first
- You choose when answers are shown
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CoreFree
Courses & lessons
A full course platform around your tests.
- Drag-and-drop course builder
- Drip content by days or date
- Assignments and lesson discussions
- Lesson videos with chapters and resume
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Built into ProPro
Selling
Turn any course or test series into a product.
- WooCommerce one-time and subscriptions
- Bundles of courses at one price
- Google Play Billing for Android apps
- Access follows each order automatically
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Built into ProPro
Certificates & reports
Something to keep, and numbers you can act on.
- PDF certificate emailed on completion
- Completion rate and average score
- A roster showing where each student stopped
- Time-spent and continue-learning shortcodes
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Pro add-onPro
Login
Safer, quicker sign-in. Each switch is off until you turn it on.
- Google sign-in
- Sign in with a code texted to a mobile number
- Email verification and a captcha
- Login lockout and role-based redirects
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Pro add-onPro
Video
Lesson videos that pick up where students left off.
- Captions on lesson videos
- Resume position across devices
- Private videos on Bunny CDN with expiring links
- Chapters and speed menu Free
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Pro add-onPro
Appearance
Make the student screens look like your brand.
- One-click presets
- Success and error colours
- Corner radius and a font
- A brand colour for each course
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Built into ProPro
Student feedback
Hear about a wrong answer key before the next batch does.
- Star ratings and reviews on course pages
- "Report a problem" on any lesson
- Reports on any question in a quiz review
- One queue to work through and close
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CoreFree
LearnDash import
Move across without losing a student's history.
- Courses, lessons, quizzes and questions
- Enrolments, progress and quiz history
- Each course checked against the original
- Groups, bundles and WooCommerce productsPro
Every Pro licence includes all of it. See Pro pricing
Built for real exam patterns
Everything a coaching institute asks for
The checklist institutes send us before they switch, and how Turgor Exam Engine covers each item.
| Your requirement | Turgor Exam Engine |
|---|---|
| Create courses and lessons | Yes Free Drag-and-drop course builder with lessons, videos and quizzes. |
| Divide an exam into sections | Yes Free Name each section and assign questions to it. |
| Shuffle questions within each section | Yes Free Shuffling never mixes sections, so the paper keeps its structure. |
| Draw a set number of questions from each section | Yes Exam Mode Question limit per section, picked fresh for every attempt. |
| Different marks for each section | Yes Exam Mode For example +1 in one section and +2 in another. |
| Different negative marking for each section | Yes Exam Mode Turn it on or off and set the deduction section by section. The free plugin sets it per quiz or per question. |
| A separate timer for each section | Yes Exam Mode Each section closes when its time runs out, as in SSC CGL and IBPS PO. |
| Sectional cut-off marks | Yes Exam Mode A minimum score per section, in marks or as a percentage. |
| "Only the first N answers count" (CSIR NET rule) | Yes Exam Mode Set how many answered questions are evaluated in each section. |
| Section-wise results | Yes Exam Mode Score, correct, wrong and skipped for every section, plus answer-by-answer review. |
| Questions in English plus another language | Yes Exam Mode Add a second language to any question, such as Hindi, Tamil, Bengali or Marathi. Students switch between the two during the exam. |
| A real computer-based exam screen with question navigation | Yes Exam Mode Question palette, mark for review, countdown and a GATE-style calculator. |
Free in Turgor Exam Engine on WordPress.orgExam Mode needs the Exam Mode add-on (Pro)
See Exam Mode in action
- Parts A, B and C as separate tabs
- Attempt any 15, 35 and 25: only those answers count
- Different marks and negative marking for each part
- Fullscreen exam screen with question palette
- General Aptitude, Chemistry and five optional sections
- 122 questions in one full-length paper
- Question palette and mark for review
- Fullscreen exam screen with a countdown timer
The best-featured exam platform for WordPress, full stop.
Turgor Exam Engine is a complete, standalone course platform — courses, quizzes, competitive exams, certificates, and more — natively, in one system. Nothing to install alongside it. Migrate every course, quiz, and student's progress from LearnDash in one click, or start fresh with no LearnDash at all.
Every feature, one system
Negative marking, fullscreen lockdown, random question papers, live open/close times, question analysis, the student dashboard and bulk question import — all native. Nothing extra to buy, install, or keep updated.
Built exam-first, not retrofitted
LearnDash's quiz engine wasn't designed for competitive exams. Turgor Exam Engine was designed for it, from the schema up.
100% working migration
Courses, lessons, quizzes, questions, enrolments, progress and quiz attempts — verified against the original data before you go live.
Pay once, from $59
First 100 customers get 2 years of updates included (1 year after); renewable anytime either way. The plugin never stops working.
Pay once. Use it for as long as you run the site.
*Offer terms: the first 100 customers across Turgor Exam Engine's one-time tiers (Single Site, Agency Starter) get 2 years of updates included; after that, 1 year (renewable anytime, same as today). Agency Unlimited isn't part of this offer — it's a $349 one-year licence, renewed manually, not a one-time purchase with an included update window.
From spreadsheet to scorecard
Load your question bank
Import from Excel, Word, or a live Google Sheet, tagged by category as they come in — or point it at a shared doc and let scheduled sync keep it current.
Assemble the exam
Pull your quizzes together into one timed paper with topic tabs, set negative marking per topic, and turn on fullscreen lockdown.
Students see real results
Every attempt lands in a dashboard with percentile, streaks, an activity heatmap, and an automatic callout for lessons a student is falling behind on. Question analysis shows, for every question, how many students got it right, wrong or left it blank — hardest first.
Mock tests by exam: SSC CGL IBPS PO UPSC NEET UG JEE Main CSIR-NET GATE All exams →
Built by people who ran exam platforms, too
These plugins started as fixes for our own mock-test site — down to the exact fullscreen-lockdown and negative-marking mechanics competitive exams actually use. That's still how we prioritize what gets built next.
Negative marking done properly
Set a different penalty per topic, exactly how SSC, banking, and UGC/CSIR NET papers actually score.
Real exam-day lockdown
Fullscreen enforcement with a strike-based auto-submit — not just a countdown timer bolted onto a normal quiz.
Support from the people who built it
No outsourced ticket queue — questions about sync schedules or negative-marking edge cases go straight to the developers.
Live tests that open and close on time
Set open and close times on a quiz. Nobody starts outside the window, and anyone still sitting it is stopped at closing time — so everyone finishes together.
See it running on a real site: how lessonbasket.com runs 26 previous-year papers in exam mode →