ABSTRACT

Electronic supported assessment or  E-assessment is a field of growing importance. preparing manual  test is a difficult  task to handle and a time consuming process for teachers, in which they have to prepare both fair and consistent exam for each class. Besides, even is the teacher can prepare a sufficient exam, it is difficult to prevent students from cheating and if teachers cannot prevent them from doing this injustice, it will occur again and again. With this new system, the problem of cheating will be reduced and there will be no delay in releasing of student’s result. Human error(s) in conducting, marking and scoring of the examination. The system is designed to facilitate the examination processes and manage challenges surrounding the conduct of examination, auto-submission, auto marking  and  examination  result  report  generation. The use of computer-based examination  technology in administering examinations will improve efficiency, fast and also a solution to cheating. A computer based testing system (CBTS) will improve accuracy and profitability of academic institution as it reduces the cost of stationeries and labour involved in conducting examinations manually. The new system was designed and implemented using visual basic (VB).