An Effective Computer Based Examination System for University

Computer Based Examination System (CES) is an efficient and time saving mode of conducting examinations to a larger number of students at the same time. It is an effective solution to evaluate huge number of students. In recent times many computer based examination systems have been developed in which lack of flexibility remains a major drawback. Timing functionalities like automatically logging-off candidates upon expiration of allotted time, random generation of questions and accommodation of large number of students at the same time are the advantages of our proposed system. In this paper, a computer based examination system is developed which combines many of the advantages as one. The Data Flow Diagram (DFD) of the system is presented. The programming tools used for the front-end development of the system are Java Servlet Pages (JSP) and Net Beans IDE 7.2 integrated development environment while MySQL is used as the database back end.