mikeogezi / cbt-practice

CBT Practice helps undergraduate students of the University of Jos practice for their computer-based examinations

CBT Practice

CBT Practice helps undergraduate students of the University of Jos practice for their computer-based examinations. This repository houses the Android app. Asscoiated repositories are listed below. Please note that the second repository is private. If you would like me to make it open-source, kindly message me so that I can prioritize doing that.

• CBT Practice Webapp
• CBT Practice Question Submitter - This allows people with special access submit new questions to the question bank.
• CBT Practice PIN Generator - This contains a CLI application which generates and uploads unique PINS to a firebase database. A second CLI application bundles the generated PINS into a PDF document that can be printed and physically distributed to students. See the screenshots in User access below.

Features

• Thousands of questions 📚
• 9 courses 👌
• Validated corrections ✅
• Timed sessions ⏱️
• New content is automatically downloaded ☁️

Important note

To build and run the app yourself, please do the following:

• Create a Firebase project, initialize cloud messaging, firestore, auth, and cloud storage then download a google-services.json file and drop it in the app/src directory
• Set facebook_application_id in your strings.xml
• Set fb_login_protocol_scheme in your strings.xml
• Set app_admob_id in your strings.xml

Courses contained

The app provides access to past questions of the following University of Jos courses

• CS 101 - Introduction to Computer Science
• CS 102 - Introduction to Computer Applications
• CS 201 - Computer Programming I
• GST 101 - Use of English and Library
• GST 102 - Philosophy and Logic
• GST 103 - Nigerian People and Culture
• GST 104 - History and Philosophy of Science
• GST 222 - Peace and Conflict Management
• GST 223 - Introduction to Entrepreneurial Skill

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Problem and Idea

This app was built to allow students of the University of Jos to prepare for their computer-based exams more effeciently an effectively. Although students had been taking computer-based exams for a few years years, there was no convenient and affordable way for them to access the past questions. The best solution at the time was for students to make bulky paper photocopies or take pictures of the past questions. Also, the students who made paper photocopies typically did so a few days to the exam and discarded them shortly afterwards. Using this app minimizes paper usage and helps the environment.

Solution

My solution, CBT Practice, allows students of the University to practice on their android mobile devices. The students had access to instand feedback on their performance as well as corrections after taking the practice exam.

User access

Users are able to access the app's content for a fee of ₦200. This fee could either be paid online on the app itself or used to buy a paper PIN which looks like this. If you would like me to waive the fee so you could test the app or evaluate my work, try one of the PINS in the postproximate image. If none work, kindly contact me.

User support

Phone numbers of support personnel were provided within the app, but the most common way for users to receive support was the CBT Practice WhatsApp group.

Bringing this to another school

This application currently only works in the University of Jos. If you would like to work with me to bring something like this to your school, send me an email.

App screenshots

Login screen

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Home screen

Department list	Root hamburger menu

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Course lists

GST course list	CS course list

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Practice exam

Normal objective question	Comprehension question	Comprehension passage	Last question

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Post-submission

Score	Correction (different session from Score)