PaperMaker: Automated Exam Papers
Generate exam papers from a question bank in minutes, not hours.
Educators were building exam papers by hand: copying questions, balancing difficulty and reformatting each time. It was slow, repetitive and error-prone.
The system had to respect a paper 'blueprint' (marks per section, difficulty mix, syllabus coverage) while drawing from a growing, tagged question bank, and work for both a dashboard and a mobile app.
Made the question bank richly tagged and the blueprint declarative.
Instead of Hard-coding paper formats.
Why: A declarative blueprint over a tagged bank meant new paper patterns were configuration, not code changes.
Generated each paper by satisfying the blueprint's constraints, not by random sampling.
Instead of Randomly pulling questions until the marks added up.
Why: Constraint-driven selection guaranteed the right marks, difficulty mix and syllabus coverage every time, and made a paper reproducible instead of a lucky draw.
Served one REST API to both the admin dashboard and the companion app.
Instead of A separate backend for the web and mobile clients.
Why: One contract meant the dashboard and the Flutter app behaved identically and every new feature shipped once, not twice.
- Tagged question-bank data model
- Blueprint-driven paper generation
- Admin dashboard for subjects, questions & papers
- REST API powering a companion app
Hemant Manglani
Ahmedabad, India
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