A number of cues for the National Testing Agency (NTA) can be taken from foreign agencies conducting Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), Graduate Record Exam (GRE) and Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). Most of the tests are held round the year to give a chance to candidates to reschedule them.
An important thing, however, is to remember that the terms online testing and computer-based testing are interchangeably used, says Soumitra Roy, country manager, Prometric India, a global testing agency.
Online testing means candidates using the internet in real time. In computer-based testing, the internet is used to download the appointment. Then the test is downloaded and kept on the server to be…
