Posted by TCYonline.com on April 23, 2010
TCY Learning Solutions Private Limited (www.TCYonline.com) recently announced the public launch of a Learning Engine that has dramatically changed how students learn. Dubbed TCY Analytics, it has already been applied to test scores of more than 7.5 lakh students across 50 different test categories in the last two years.
The Learning Engine requires the student to register for free tests on www.TCYonline.com - after which the student can select tests from any of the 50 categories available – including the National Benchmark Tests for CBSE students, CAT for MBA aspirants, UPSC for civil service aspirants and the JEE for IIT aspirants. Once registered, the student can take unlimited tests that are generated from more than 5 lakh questions, created with the help of more than 40,000 teachers across the country. The Learning Engine then undertakes extensive analysis on the scores from each test – showing progress with time, percentile ranking across the school / college / city / country, strong and weak areas in each topic and sub-topic, etc. For a small fee, the Learning Engine, in conjunction with other tools like Test Generator and Expert Recommendations, also delivers these performance scores and customised learning content targeted at specific weak areas of every student.
Talking at the public launch, Kamal Wadhera, the CEO of the company shared, “In over 12 years of business in this sector, we learnt that high quality of education often comes at prohibitive costs. The Learning Engine, Test Generator, Expert Recommendations and the massive Content and Analytics back-end, delivered online and in classrooms, can bring extra-ordinarily high quality for very low cost. We aim to take these services to 5 million students and 5,000+ schools in the next 2 years.”
With basic services available for free, the platform has already served lakhs of students in two years, across 1,500+ cities and towns in India. With 15,000 + daily website visitors and 1000+ new students enrolling every day for the TCY Learning Experience, the platform has also seen significant participation from 100s of Indian Schools across the country.
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.
