Make up your own tests
Pencils Down is a helpful, free Mac software, that is part of the category Science & Education.
More about Pencils Down
Since the software has been added to our selection of software and apps in 2006, it has managed to obtain 1,237 downloads, and last week it gained 1 download.
Pencils Down is a not that heavy program that does not require as much free space than many programs in the category Science & Education. It's very heavily used in Switzerland.
Pencils Down is available for users with the operating system Mac OS X and prior versions, and you can download it in English. The software version is 3.0 and its last update happened on 9/29/2006.
User reviews about Pencils Down
by Anonymous
Good, but still missing some features.
It is the idea I was looking for, but I would like to have some other features. The main one is the "key" page, or correction sheet. It is useless showing the whole right answer when they are very long and similar one to another. It is much more useful stating a) or 1) option as the right answer.
It would be very useful also the ability of swapping the order of the right answers in the same test, so that I can generate two or three different sheets for different rows of students in the classroom, but using the same questions and answers. I would like also any kind of exportation to RTF files or similar, because I have to fit my exam text into a template given by the school.
I propose: taking randomly an stated amount of questions out of a large number of them. Say I have 200 questions, and I want to take just 25.
each question would have indicated to which chapter belongs, and the program could generate randomly a test with a previously set proportion.
Pros:
simple interface
fast and easy to use
Cons:
too simple
no text exporting, just printing
"Not registered" message. How can I register? No info about that More