O-L-T

Lets start with a question: What can be the variation of marks in the result of a test, when a person attempts a test, three times in a row, without any external factor playing at any point of time.


You may say a few percent. like 5-10%. or some more. like, if in first attempt, one gets some 70%, in the next attempt s/he should be scoring between 65-75% or 60-80%. some may argue that it depends: it may depend upon the sincerity of the candidate in each attempt, the time duration, the difficulty level of questions, preparation of the candidate, among other things. Well, please do not assume any difference in any of the parameters, they are same for all the attempts.


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For insiders, the phrase 'password type keejie' is not only three words. they are one of those lightly treated dreaded words, which indicates that some 60 poor fellows are going to play a luck game called 'quiz', for some 10% of the subject weightage of a particular subject. all the standard rules apply: there will be strict time limits, there will be un-even distribution of random questions of different level of difficulty, for each quiz taker, and wow.. there is a negative marking too! The poor faculty has to 'create' 50 question from a topic which itself does not have 5 concepts in all! The great levelor in this case is OLT - a so called software made by some college goers, implemented on full scale on production.

In the pic here, you can see that what the password field shows when an attempt to login is made through its online interface. This is one of the many wonders of OLT.
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so whats your answer?: read on!!


One of our batchmate took a quiz in a subject, and got a gud 8.8 marks out of ten, but to his hard luck that quiz got cancelled due to the fact that a surprisingly low time of 3 minutes was allocated to attempt 10 questions. immediately after the cancellation, another quiz was carried out, and the guy got 4!
This made him furious, and he demanded his earlier marks to be awarded. The quizmaster in the question offered him another attempt at the quiz. He fall in to the trap, and got zero in this third attempt.


and we call IT reliable!