Exam Mode
The real computer-based exam screen: palette, sectional timers and cut-offs, partial marks and two languages.
Watch the how-to: Build an SSC CGL-style mock with Exam Mode
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Exam Mode is the computer-based exam screen your students will sit on the day: question palette, mark for review, a timer for the whole paper or for each section, sectional cut-offs, English and Hindi papers and an on-screen calculator. It is built from the quizzes you already have.
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
Turn it on
Under Turgor Exam Engine → Addons, click Turn on on the Exam Mode card. Exams are then under Addons → Exams.
The quickest way to see it working: on the Exams screen, click Create a sample exam. It builds a 25-question SSC CGL-style mock with four timed sections, +2 / −0.5 marking and English / Hindi questions, plus a private page to try it on.
Create an exam
- Go to Exams → Add New Exam and give it a title.
- Under How should this exam get its questions?, choose:
- Several quizzes (each quiz = one topic) – click + Add Quizzes and pick them in order; or
- One quiz (use its own question categories as topics) – pick the quiz, and each question category becomes a topic.
- For each topic, set what it needs: Marks per correct answer, Negative marking, Evaluate first N answered questions, Minutes and a Cut-off (marks or %). Students see only the topic name you give, never the quiz’s.
- Choose the Timing: One overall timer, or One timer per topic. With a timer per topic, sections are sat in order and each closes for good when its time runs out or it is submitted. A topic left without minutes gets an equal share of the overall duration.
- Set the Passing percentage, Max questions per topic, whether to Randomize question order within each topic, and the Exam description / rules students read before they start.
- Publish, then place the exam on a page or lesson (below).
Exam formats save these settings to reuse: pick one under Exam format, click Load, or save your own with Save current settings as format. Built in: SSC CGL Tier 1 (4 sections × 15 min, +2 / −0.5) and IBPS PO Prelims (3 sections × 20 min, +1 / −0.25). Loading a format does not change which quizzes are picked; add your section quizzes first, in the exam’s order.
A student who scores below the cut-off in any section does not pass, whatever their total. A question’s own negative marks, set on the question, override the topic’s.
Partial marks (JEE Advanced style)
On a multiple-choice question, tick Partial marks in the question form (it appears once Pro is installed), or set partial_marking to yes in a Quiz Toolkit sheet. A student who picks only correct options, but not all of them, earns that share of the marks: 2 of 3 correct options on a 4-mark question earns 2.67. Picking any wrong option makes the whole answer wrong. The exam screen tells students which questions work this way.
Put the exam on a page
Add the shortcode shown on the exam’s edit screen to any page or lesson:
[turgee_exam id="123"]
Add theme="light" or theme="dark" to fix its colours. To link the exam to a lesson, pick it under Lesson/topic this exam is embedded in: submitting the exam then marks that lesson complete.
[turgee_exam_history] lists a student’s past attempts on every exam, with their best and average score; [turgee_exam_history id="123"] lists one exam’s.
Who can take an exam: anyone who can read the page or lesson the exam is placed on. In a course, the course’s own rules apply (enrolment, free or open courses). An exam that is unpublished, or not placed anywhere, is closed to students. You can always try your own exams.
Appearance
In the Exam Appearance box: the colour theme, Require fullscreen and how many Fullscreen exits are allowed before the exam submits itself, the On-screen scientific calculator (laid out like the GATE / JAM one), the names of the two Question languages (English and हिन्दी by default) and the palette colours.
What students see
A rules screen with Start exam, then the exam: Save & Next, Clear, Save & Mark for Review, Mark for Review & Next, a palette of answered, not answered, not visited and marked questions, the time left (and section time left), a language menu, calculator and text size. The clock is kept on the server, so answers are saved through a dropped connection and the student can carry on where they left off.
After submitting: score and pass or fail, a Section-wise result against each cut-off, accuracy by section, how they compare with others, their score trend, time per question, and a Question review with the correct answers.
Settings
Exam Mode Settings (the Settings button on the add-on card): turn on Print / save as PDF on the result screen, and create or open the sample exam. Everything else is set per exam.
See also: Student Dashboard, Question types.