Automatic MCQ Generator

Abstract

                QUESTION is an essential tool to assess the knowledge or understanding of a learner. Assessment is crucial in learning and question is essential for assessment. Multiple choice question (MCQ) is the most widespread form of a question for various levels of assessment. MCQs have many advantages including quick evaluation, less testing time, consistent scoring, and the possibility of an electronic evaluation. Many examinations use MCQ based question papers through a computerized environment. However, manual preparation of MCQs is time-consuming and costly. Therefore, the research community devoted substantial effort to find the techniques for automatic generation of MCQs. The research on automatic MCQ generation started at least 20 years ago. As an early attempt, we find the system developed by Coniam David in

1997 [1]. Since then, many MCQ generation systems have been developed in various languages and domains, and for various applications.MCQs are playing a vital role in all organizations, evaluating a person capability or eligibility for a particular purpose. Our Proposed idea to generate MCQs with software can help those kinds of organizations and institutes to evaluate one in a easy and time efficient manner. Manual preparation of exam questions is a challenging task for educators especially within a short time frame. It requires a lot of time and efforts in order to meet the standard quality of exam questions. This research introduces an automated exam question generator to resolve this issue in preparation of multiple choice exam questions.