ABSTRACT

This project is to implement a friendly modern computerized system for maintaining the question bank and the students’ performance in their respective subjects in Management Studies. The existing system in this college maintains manually by distributing the printed question bank to the students. It is upto the students to completely utilize it. And moreover, there is maintenance of students’ records regarding the question bank. This leads to the “AUTOMATING QUESTION BANK” using VISUAL BASIC 6.0 as the front end and MS ACCESS 7.0 as the back end tool.

PROPOSED SYSTEM

The system defines the creation of teachers’ account and students’ account by the teachers according to their subject needs. The system provides the performance of students in their respective subjects.

· TEACHERS’ ACCOUNT

It includes creating userid and password for the faculties and creation of userid and password for the students by the faculty members. The faculty has the control of whether to allow a student to attend the test on their respective subject or not.

· QUESTION BANK

The main form allows the faculty members to create files containing questions of objective type on their respective subjects. This form has provisions for creating test for a particular amount of period thus providing the students an experience of real-time quizzing.

· MODIFICATIONS

Forms are provided to change the faculty passwords and students as well. Questions can also be edited and saved. Questions can also be appended to the existing question bank.

· REPORTS

The performance of each student can be taken as printouts and the questions can even be printed.

SYSTEM SPECIFICATION

HARDWARE

PROCESSOR : PENTIUM II

CACHE MEMORY : 512KB

MEMORY : 32KB

HARD DISK CAPACITY : 2GB

SOFTWARE

FRONT-END : VISUAL BASIC 6.0

BACK-END : MS ACCESS 7.0

OPERATING SYSTEM : WINDOWS 9x