Sej’s Exam Jenerator

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What is it?

Sej’s Exam Jenerator (SEJ) is a program which allows you to create and manage a question bank of categorised past paper questions, and generate random customised papers from them for revision.

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Question Banks

A question bank is a file (ending with the .qbnk extension) which you can create with SEJ and share with other people. A question bank contains many past paper questions and their corresponding answers. These questions are also able to be categorised into one or more categories, such as what topic they are testing, or the type of question (multiple choice, short answer, long answer, etc.), allowing for easy generation of randomised papers based on specific criteria. SEJ allows you to import and export question banks, allowing you to share the banks with other people.

Question Bank Recommendations

It is recommended to make one question bank per subject, even though it is possible to have more than one subject in a single question bank.

Question bank editor

Question Categories

The questions in a question bank can be categorised into one or more categories. This helps to organise the questions. Categorisation is required in order to be able to generate papers. You can create categories in the Category Manager, and then assign categories to questions in the View Questions tab.

Category manager

Category Recommendations

Although categories can be anything you choose, for the sake of consistency it is recommended to make categories based on the topics your exam board can test you on, and also the type of questions (such as Multiple Choice, Short Answer, or Long Answer) that can appear in the paper.

For example, the image of the category manager above shows you the categories present in the OCR A Level Chemistry (A) question bank.

Importing questions

Questions can be directly imported into the question bank from PDF files of past papers available from your exam board. Simply open the past paper PDF, and its corresponding answer PDF and click on “New Question”. This will allow you to make selections of the PDF which the program will save as an image in the question bank.

The question importer allows you to make multiple selections of the paper, and will stitch them together into a single image when you are done. This is useful if the question or mark scheme goes beyond a single page, and allows you to split a question with multiple parts into individual questions, as the pretext can be included for all of them.

Question bank importer

Importing Questions Recommendations

  • Do not include the question number when selecting the question, the program will generate its own question numbers when making a paper.
  • Include all of the answer space a question gives you, as well as the marks of the question. The program will not add this in for you.
  • Do not make the total question text and answer space for one question more than the size of one A4 page, as this means the program will be unable to add this question.

Once you are done importing the questions, you can view the questions you made by going back to the “View Questions” tab, and assign categories to them.

Generating Papers

The real benefit of the program comes from the ability to generate PDF papers from the question bank, based on what categories you choose to include (or exclude from the paper). The program will generate two PDFs: one is the question paper, and another is the corresponding mark scheme.

Strict Mode means that all the questions of the paper must contain all of the categories selected. Without strict mode, the program will choose questions that contain one or more of the categories selected.

Any question with an excluded category will not be selected, even if it has categories that are included.