Posted by TCYonline.com on October 11, 2008
In a move to further ‘revolutionize’ India’s test prep sector, the country’s Number One Testing Platform, TCYonline.com, has launched the ‘Test Generator’ – another testing tool to facilitate student’s better benchmarking. This cutting edge technological marvel is bound to shoot up students’ scores and morale tremendously.
There’s a feeling among intelligentsia that this online tool would immensely help lakhs of MBA aspirants currently gearing up for next month’s Common Admission Test (CAT). According to CAT pundits, their preparation for the elite exam will take an extreme form of customization.
This follows the grand success of TCYonline.com’s recently launched ‘Challenge Zone’ which has already caused much of a sensation in India’s test preparation sector.
All this has been possible because of TCY’s belief in ‘disruption’. No wonder, it is becoming the ‘testopedia’ for everybody. Its latest initiative is a step in that direction.
For the uninitiated to TCYonline.com’s innumerable free benefits, this web-portal takes pride in having close to 2,25,000 students’ and teachers’ registrations.
Over the past two years, 50,000 MBA aspirants have benefited from free CAT courses and free practice tests available on the site.
“This new testing tool will help boost modern students’ exam preparation. Now, he would be in a better position to fine-tune his benchmarking by customizing length, number of questions, types of questions, number of sections, difficulty levels, negative markings, all leading to better performance,” according to TCYonline.com CEO, Kamal Wadhera.
Elaborating on the ‘Test Generator’ he said, “Its concept is akin to an Olympic athlete who after practising in mud and sand, fine-tunes on various aspects – daily raising his difficulty level – makes a gold podium finish one day.”
Since every student’s speed, assimilation and preparation level is different from any other student, this new testing tool would give him the complete cruise-control of his exam preparation.
Just take an example of an average CAT student who feels that his Reading Comprehension is not that good because he usually finds himself at odds while attempting scientific passages. Now, what is he going to do? If he is smart enough, he would log on to www.tcyonline.com RC database and get number of questions according to a particular topic, his difficulty level, negative marking, etc. and get started. Yes, it is as simple as that, thanks to this new testing tool.
“Thousands of questions have already been tagged according to topic, difficulty level, exam and it’s a continuous process. Student will be able create the tests from varied levels of questions,” said Mr. Wadhera.
Benefits for the student:
1. Saves time by attempting only relevant questions
2. Easy access to content of different authors
3. Access to rich repository of content
4. Self-driven tool
It may be noted that the company plans to keep the tool free for some time to gauge the student response and its usage pattern.
“We have seen in the pilot run that the students will be ‘addicted’ to it. It’s bound to become a de facto tool for exam preparation”, said the confident CEO.
This tool will not only help students but teachers too. They can create the tests for their students also form a huge question database. It will save their time while searching questions, etc.
Posted by TCYonline.com on August 7, 2008
NEW DELHI, Aug. 6 – Fighting against the odds and fighting your inner self may be the two sides of a same coin, but challenging others for a better benchmarking is altogether a different ballgame a modern Indian student would love to play.
Following this ‘play to learn’ concept, and encouraged by the ‘stupendous’ success of its ‘Challenge Zone’, TCYonline.com recently launched a unique free contest for competitors. The contest will be a student vs student, and student vs computer.
Attractive prizes up for grabs are a Nokia mobile, an MP3 player and a Titan watch. Some consolation prizes also await the winners of this month-long contest, to be announced in the first week of next month. The winners will be picked up on the basis of select criteria.
“The contest, open to all age-groups, covers all course categories ranging from Class IX to post-graduation, including some elite competitive exams. Entry to the contest is absolutely FREE” , according to TCYonline.com IT Manager Rakesh Kumar.
“More you play, more you win. We want parents and teachers to encourage their children to take part in this exciting contest. It will help create more interest in their studies which in turn will improve their rankings.”
It is noteworthy that on an average about 1000 students are participating in the Challenge Zone daily. Students can challenge nationwide and benchmark their performance against anybody, anywhere and anytime.
The idea behind this initiative is to boost student-benchmarking through a thrilling learning exercise. Through this, students compete simultaneously with one another while having the great feeling of playing a game.
Recently, another feature has been added to the Challenge. Under this ‘Challenge a computer’, a student can play against the computer whenever he wishes. In this he has a choice of varying his difficulty levels.
This online unique competition puts a student on a sound pedestal, in full cruise-control. Now he can even choose to play a host. He can either ‘throw’ an on-the-spot challenge or schedule it at a later convenient time. Forming internet groups and scoring over each other is all set to be the in-thing in the Indian education arena. This Challenge Zone is just a beautiful beginning towards TCYonline.com’s objective of giving a new meaning to student-benchmarking in India.
The beauty of this whole testing exercise is that a student can keep track of his performance (with onscreen score display) by controlling his speed and accuracy. This is akin to keeping a tab on your running-mate.
Even inviting other students to the site, who are not online at that time, is as simple as sending a simple SMS. Students with the same goal can compete with each other. The benefits of this ‘challenge’ are many which include choice of better peers, better test, better time and better speed.
At the end of the test all the participants, including the host, will be able to see their scores on a scoreboard which will give them an idea as to where they stand and in what areas they have to improve upon. This testing tool may also shatter many of their false hopes that they might have developed during their course preparation.
Posted by TCYonline.com on June 20, 2008
NEW DELHI, June 20 - TCYonline.com, India’s number one web-portal for teachers and students, today launched the ‘Challenge Zone’ – a unique testing competitive tool — on its website which takes pride in having more than 1.15 lakh enrolled students and 3600 registered teachers across the country.
This free ‘challenge’ is something the students have always imagined but never had a chance to experience it anywhere. “The idea behind this initiative is to give a required boost to student-benchmarking through this thrilling learning experience, “ said Mr. Kamal Wadhera, the CEO of TCY, while launching this state-of-the-art ‘testing tool’, meticulously prepared by TCYonline.com experts with their decade-long experience. “I must say, no student can ill-afford to miss this testing tool,” he added.
“It is something we probably needed but never knew it could happen”, was the common feeling among a bunch of test-takers we spoke to during ‘test-rides’.
“Our experience tells that students desperately need such tools for customised testing but they don’t know what they need. It’s like what Henry Ford said,” If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse…” Drawing such a comparison of what the world’s motor-car giant, Henry Ford, had once said, Mr. Wadhera observed that the modern student couldn’t have asked for more.
Better benchmarking being the key to better scores, thanks to education portals like www.tcyonline.com, today a student in the country is in a better position to judge himself with anybody, anywhere and anytime. Touted as the success mantra by online education pundits, this ‘testing tool’ is sure to take students’ scores to dizzy heights, thereby giving them a great morale-boost.
This online unique competition puts a student on a sound pedestal, in full cruise-control. Now he can even choose to play a host. He can either ‘throw’ an on-the-spot challenge or schedule it at a later convenient time. Forming internet groups and scoring over each other is all set to be the in-thing in the Indian education arena. This Challenge Zone is just a beautiful beginning towards TCYonline.com’s objective of giving a new meaning to student-benchmarking in India.
The methodology: Just imagine, on a particular day and time an MBA aspirant in Chandigarh decides to benchmark himself against four other such aspirants in different parts of the country, say in Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. All he has to do is log on, select a test, invite his opponents, schedule his time and date. And, there you go!
“The beauty of this whole testing exercise is that a student can keep track of his performance (with onscreen score display) by controlling his speed and accuracy,” the CEO added. This is akin to keeping a tab on your running-mate.
Even inviting other students to the site, who are not online at that time, is as simple as sending a simple SMS. Students with the same goal can compete with each other. The benefits of this ‘challenge’ are many which include choice of better peers, better test, better time and better speed.
At the end of the test all the participants, including the host, will be able to see their scores on a scoreboard which will give them an idea as to where they stand and in what areas they have to improve upon. This testing tool may also shatter many of their false hopes that they might have developed during their course preparation.
The student might feel he is good in one subject but to his shock and dismay may face a stark reality like, “Oh, my God, I am nowhere as compared to that guy in Chennai.” Chances are he would work harder and overshoot his own goals. Now, that’s the beauty of this whole cerebral exercise. Want to jump on the bandwagon and take a ‘joy-ride’?
Salient features:-
• Ultimate form of customization
• Better peer choice
• Flexible time, better tests
• Self-motivating learning thrill
• Healthy competition for mutual benefit
