Automated Entrance Examination Chapteri

CHAPTER I

PROJECT OVERVIEW

This section discusses the overview of the project. This provides the rationale, the background of the project, the importance of the study, the statement of the problem, the objective of the project, and the definition of terms.

Rationale

Nowadays the rising number of students in many Universities and Colleges, public or private had rapidly growth because of the rapid increase of population in our country. This leads to the need of automation in schools, primarily with the Entrance Examination.

Entrance examination is to determine a candidate's preparation for a course of studies. [1] Giving the freshmen students a set of questionnaire’s evaluating their skills and knowledge. A college entrance exam is a standardized aptitude test. Aptitude tests measure your collective knowledge in various skill areas (such as verbal, math, analytical and writing skills). These tests are not designed to measure what you have learned in school; rather, they measure your potential to perform well in the future. Your high school courses will help you prepare for these exams. However, taking practice exams is an additional way to study for these types of tests, as they will help you become familiar with the types of questions asked, the format of the questions and the timing necessary to finish each section. [2]

Computer-assisted entrance examination provides fast and printed results to the examinees. It is a user-friendly system and provides quality service to the students as well as to the guidance counselor. The system will only be activated using a username with its corresponding password for confidentiality. Through the use of Computer Assisted Entrance Examination system, much effort may be saved and many projects will be made more effective for the development of entrance examination.[3] InfoTech Development Systems Colleges Incorporated, being a prominent school, presently, the school uses a manual system of delivering common services to the...