Parikshaguru is a unique online testing concept which seeks to fill the huge gap between the enormous development in the field of information technology coupled with our ever increasing level of comfort with it and it availability for our education-related needs. The genesis of Parikshaguru lies in the recognition of the fact that today’s generation is an Orkut generation. Our youth feels more comfortable on internet. He enjoys chatting on messenger—he/she loves creating his profile and his own online community as well as joining other existing online communities like MySpace, ORKUT. When it comes to studying—to find out new information and solving his problems—he/she prefers to log on to Wikipedia than to visit the nearest book-store or university library. But there is a big lacuna here. Today’s youth may prefer to study online—he/she may find relevant information online effortlessly, but when it comes to testing his/her knowledge, he/she has no options. The only way he/she can do it is by visiting a traditional coaching institute—many of which are run by totally unprofessional people, who keep on circulating same set of questions again and again—where a large number of students get same question-set—where the quality and authenticity of question is ever-doubtful—where answers are often disputable. In other words, they, at best, work as a patchwork between his preparation and final examination.

In such a scenario, Parikshaguru seeks to fill the void in testing arena. Parikshaguru is not just any other online examination site—it is a unique concept in itself. It claims its uniqueness due to the following facts:

Parikshaguru achieves this by following a unique methodology—

(a.) Each subject of the examination is divided into maximum number of distinct and independent modules which are further sub-divided into a maximum number of sub-modules.

(b.) A large number of questions are formed which are grouped under three levels of difficulty—difficult, medium and easy.

(c.) These questions are formed by the experts in their respective fields who have more than 15 years of experience of teaching that particular subject for that particular examination. The questions writers are not just the experts in their respective field, but more importantly, they are the exam experts who know the nitty-gritty of that particular examination—they know which type of question are asked in that exam, what is the current trend etc.

(d.) This data base of questions is regularly updated so as to remove old and no-more-relevant out-of-trend question to be replaced by the new ones.These two factors—an intelligent division and sub-division of subject into modules, and sub-module and into different levels of difficulty AND a very big data bank of questions—which play a very important role in the uniqueness of the concept—that is Parikshaguru.

(e.) Since question paper is generated at the time of writing of the examination and is not pre-prepared, it is ensured that each student gets a unique set of questions, but since a very large number of variables are taken into consideration, it is again ensured that everyone gets similar questions. Nobody can claim that his/her questions are more (or less) difficult. A fair amount of uniformity is maintained across the question papers. It is because of this fact that one’s marks obtained in a test in Parikshaguru will be a very accurate prediction of his marks that he/she is most likely to get in the real examination.

(f.) Parikshaguru is further different from other such online sites because it is sort of simulation site in which the question paper is designed and presented in such a way that it almost exactly simulates the actual examination that the student will be writing. That is, the student will be given the whole question paper at one go (in other online testing sites, questions are presented one by one.) and the student is free to move to and fro and from any question to any other question. He can also mark a question which may seem to him confusing and which he wishes to try later. To finally mark his answer, he is given an OMR sheet which is identical to the OMR sheets of actual examinations. This helps the students to keep a better track of his time and spare enough time for filling up the OMR sheet which he must do in real examination.