Test is the ability to check ones knowledge of understanding of a particular subject of discuss. Test can be offered by a school teacher, an organization. In general, test also is to know one’s ability to do something. However, in online education test is conducted by means of answering list of multiple page by page questions with multiple options. Options like “A – E” or “1 – 5” or “true or false”. And peers are allowed to make their choices during the process. Some tests are timed, and you are required to answer a particular question at a given time period. These questions are shown page by page, and as soon as the time elapses the next page is shown. This will mark failure on the peers’ part, if he was unable to answer the question at the given time. On the other hand, when peers choose their answer, the next page is also shown.

Benefits

Online test has benefits, such as enabling students to develop self confidence. That is enabling one to see if he really understands the subject fairly well or not. It will also help teachers to see the need for improvement, depending on the students’ performance in the test. For the fact that online tests are timed, this may help not to expose students to exam malpractice, which is very common in an offline education today