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- Price: Free to try (21-day trial); $24.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: January 10, 2008
- Total Downloads: 26,573
- Downloads last week: 22
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 6 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
The developers of PEST software, designed for creating quizzes and tests, must have had a sense of humor. But it lives up to its name in several senses. Although a powerful shortcut for creating computerized tests, it can be a bit aggravating in practice. The program begins with text and script editors, but we found the interface awkward, with clumsy, abbreviated buttons without an immediately obvious function. Newcomers to this type of interface--and perhaps even veterans--will be well served by a trip through the manual, as well as a perusal of the bundled sample test. However, once over these hurdles, we were impressed with the results. The application can produce a range of different formats, including multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, flash cards, and drag-and-drop sequences. The company's site also features free downloads of quizzes on subjects ranging from world history to baseball statistics. The trial version of the software allows unlimited use for 21 days. If you're a teacher looking to create digital tests for your students, this might well be worth a look, as long as you're willing to invest some time learning the ropes yourself.Publisher's description
From Vellosoft :PEST supports multiple choice questions, fill in the blank questions, flash cards, drag-and-drop sequences and essay questions. Visit the Vellosoft Web site and see for yourself the largest collection of quizzes for any quiz platform on the Internet - over 71,000 questions worth of user submitted quizzes. The quizzes are all completely free for the download and they provide a great illustration of the ease of quiz creation and the wide variety of subjects the PEST is helping people to master.
Version 3.16 comes bundled with the PEST Hall of Fame Quiz Collection.
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Version 3.16 comes bundled with the PEST Hall of Fame Quiz Collection.
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Version: PEST - Professional Exam System 3.16
"great program, huge selection of quizzes to download"
Pros: Multiple choice, fill in the blank, essay, drag and drop sequences, flash card, picture-based questions, chapter by chapter results, everything you could want in a computer-based quiz is available but the best part is - it's so easy to create!
Cons: None I can think of.
Summary: This is exactly what I was looking for - you don't create quizzes from some lame on screen form, you open up notepad and you create your quizzes as quick as you can type them up (or import from another source.) 70,000 questions worth of quizzes are... read more >>
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