Results you can trust · Online exams and proctoring
Mocks that run like the real paper, so the scores can be believed.
II PU preparatory exams, KCET mocks and your unit tests: the same rules for every student, a clock their phone can’t change, and every answer saved as it’s given.
Names and figures on this page are illustrative.
Why the score holds
The same morning, two ways
One 3-hour mock, open from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm. What happens when a test trusts the student’s device, and what happens here.
A phone set to the wrong time
If the test trusts the deviceThe paper can end early, or run long.
On TestMySkillsNothing changes. Each student’s clock is kept on our servers, not on their phone.
10:40 am · the Wi-Fi drops
If the test trusts the deviceAnswers given since the last save can be lost.
On TestMySkillsEvery answer is already saved. They reconnect and carry on with the time they have left.
11:00 am · a student starts late
If the test trusts the deviceThey get the full 3 hours, to 2:00 pm.
On TestMySkillsTheir deadline is 12:30 pm, when the window closes.
12:30 pm · answers still arriving
If the test trusts the deviceAccepted, if nothing stops them.
On TestMySkillsRefused. Every attempt still open is submitted automatically.
The times are one example mock’s; what happens at each is how every paper runs.
Proctoring
Supervised, and a person decides
Students agree first to what’s recorded: their activity, their camera, their microphone, or some of these. Notable activity is logged with its time, short clips are saved around unusual moments, and afterwards one of your staff decides.
What this isn’t
This isn’t “AI proctoring.”
TestMySkills doesn’t automatically flag students or give them a cheating score. It gives your staff a timed record and short clips, and a person decides what they mean.
The recordAwaiting a person’s decision. The software doesn’t label anyone.Labelled normal by your staff, with their notes.Labelled suspicious by your staff, with their notes.Labelled confirmed cheating by your staff, with their notes.
Nothing you choose here is saved or sent.
Set like the real paper
Time, sections, marks and negative marking follow the paper you are preparing students for. Neighbours see the questions in a different order.
Every answer change on record
Every change to every answer is kept, so how an answer was reached can be checked.
Scores out when you say
On submit, after a teacher’s review, or when the window closes.
FAQ
Questions about exam day
- Coming soon
Code that runs. Coding answers will run against your test cases and be marked automatically. Today AI reads each coding answer against your reference solution, and your teachers can re-mark it.
What happens if a student’s internet drops mid-exam?
The answers they have already given are saved on the server. The clock keeps running, so when they reconnect they continue with the time they have left.
Can a student pause a formal exam?
No. Pausing exists only in practice, where it stops the clock. Formal and scheduled exams run without a pause.
Can a student keep answering after time is up?
No. The server refuses answers that arrive after the deadline, and a check that runs every minute closes any attempt still open.
Do students see their results straight away?
Only if you choose “on submit”. Marking starts as soon as a test is submitted; written answers can take a few minutes. You can also hold scores until a teacher reviews them, or until the window closes.
Does the software decide who cheated?
No. It records what happened and saves short clips; it does not score students or label anyone. A person reviews the evidence and makes the call.
Do you record video of every student for the whole exam?
No. With camera consent, only short clips around unusual moments are kept.
What if a student won’t turn on their camera?
Consent is recorded per kind, so a student can agree to activity logging without agreeing to camera or microphone.
Full specification
- Timer
- Runs on the server. Students see the time remaining, so a wrong clock on their device can’t end an exam early.
- Deadlines
- The earlier of a student’s own timer and the scheduled window.
- Pausing
- Allowed in practice, where it genuinely stops the clock. Formal and scheduled exams can’t be paused.
- Marks
- Per question, with negative marking at your own penalty value.
- Partial credit
- For multiple-select and match-the-following: all-or-nothing, proportional, or proportional with a penalty.
- Question order
- Shuffled for each student.
- Question sets
- Drawn from a larger pool, so neighbouring students can see different questions.
- Attempts
- Limit how many attempts a student gets, and set a cool-down between them, test by test.
- Access codes
- Optionally require a code to start. Repeated wrong codes lock that student out for a while.
- Answer history
- Every change to every answer is kept, and can’t be edited or deleted afterwards.
- Results
- Score and answer key release separately: on submit, after review, after the window, or never.
- Test types
- Practice, mock tests, past papers and formal exams all run on the same engine.
- Proctoring consent
- Recorded per session, per kind: activity, video, audio.
- Activity events
- Leaving or returning to the exam, tab changes, copy and paste, right-clicks, key combinations, window resizing, the pointer leaving the page.
- Camera events
- Face detected or lost, more than one face, head turned away, an object or phone in view.
- Audio events
- Voices or background noise, with audio consent.
- Video
- Short clips around unusual moments, never a full recording of the exam.
- When it’s reviewed
- After the exam, not live. No invigilator or software interrupts a student while they are working.
Send us one chapter.
After your first unit test, you’ll see your own sections side by side and each student’s weakest topics.
We’ll run a mock in your pattern.