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Here is an overview of the terminology used throughout Practique. This may help you to align your own exams setup to how we present them within the system.

Definitions

Item - station
Station (OSCE) or question (written exams).

Item Set - a
A collection of Items to be used in an exam. This can be re-used over multiple exams.

Exam - one
One or more Item Sets scheduled into an exam on a specified date.

Blueprint categories - individual
Individual tags that you can create and attach to your Items throughout the system to enable in depth reporting.

Criteria
These are the statements that the examiner is providing feedback to the candidate against. For example 'candidate greets the patient fully'. 

Mark scheme
Each criteria is assigned a mark scheme which are the individual grades that examiners can give to candidates. Each scheme has a different group of grades, for example "Pass, Borderline, Fail". 

Mark sheet
The list of specified criteria and their associated mark schemes make up the mark sheet for each Item throughout the system. 


Exams

Exam venue candidate capacity 
This is the maximum number of candidates that your exam venue can accommodate per circuit.

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