About Examination Platform

Examination Platform runs high-stakes computer-based examinations and the courses that prepare people for them. The two halves share one marking engine, one question bank and one account — a practice quiz is graded by exactly the code that grades the examination.

The design priority throughout is that a candidate should never lose marks to the software. Timing is kept by the server, answers are saved as they are made, a dropped connection queues and reconciles, and the paper a candidate started cannot change underneath them.

Marks are integers throughout — thousandths of a mark, never floating-point numbers. That is not a micro-optimisation: a floating-point total is not exactly reproducible, and a result that cannot be reproduced cannot be defended when somebody objects to it.

Where a question is contested, it can be dropped or its answer key corrected after the fact, and every affected result is recomputed with the decision recorded against it.

The platform targets WCAG 2.1 AA. Every control is reachable by keyboard, no state is signalled by colour alone, and a paper magnifies to five times without its layout breaking. No question type requires dragging — where dragging would be natural, buttons and a position field do the same job.

Compensatory time, scribe permission and exemptions are configured per candidate or per category and applied automatically, so a provision granted on paper is a provision the software honours.

The features page lists what the engine does in detail, and the question types page is read live from the engine, so it shows exactly what this build can deliver.