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 (OSCE) or question (written exams).
Item Set - a collection of Items to be used in an exam. This can be re-used over multiple exams.
Exam - one or more Item Sets scheduled into an exam on a specified date.
Blueprint categories - individual tags that you can create and attach to your Items throughout the system to enable in depth reporting.
Exams
Exam venue candidate capacity
This is the maximum number of candidates that your exam venue can accommodate per circuit
Number of blocks during an exam day
Useful to have more than one if you intend to run different Item sets on the same day. One block can accommodate one Item set.
Number of sessions during an exam block
Sessions are run sequentially and usually multiple sessions will allow different groups of candidates to take the same exam on the same day.
Number of circuits per one session
Circuits are run concurrently so this field determines the number of circuits that your exam centre can accommodate at the same time. The number of candidates each circuit will contain is set within the field for Exam venue candidate capacity.
Default standard setting method
Choose between Angoff, Ebel, Borderline Group and Borderline Regression. Read more about this here
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