Platinum Exam Studio
From course material to a defensible exam bank, and keeping it that way.
A studio for the teams who write and maintain exams. It turns your own course material into exam questions that are tied to their source and checked against item-writing standards. It then keeps the question bank healthy: spotting duplicates and gaps, flagging questions when the material changes, and publishing to the formats your programme needs.
What is an item bank?
In certification, each exam question is called an item, and the collection of items an exam draws from is its item bank. A good bank is accurate, traceable to what was taught, free of near-duplicates, balanced across the exam’s objectives, and kept up to date as the subject changes. Building one by hand is slow. Keeping it right is slower.
Writing items is only the start
The hard part of an exam programme is everything around the writing.
Slow to write well
Good items take expert time, and generic AI output can’t show where its answer came from.
Material keeps moving
Courses are updated, and the items written against the old version quietly go out of date.
Problems hide in big banks
Reworded duplicates, untested objectives and lopsided answer keys are hard to see by eye.
Material is confidential
Unreleased course content often can’t be sent to outside services at all.
One place, from source to published exam
Bring in the material
Upload documents, slide decks, recordings and transcripts. The studio maps what each one teaches.
Plan and generate
Choose the objectives and sources, approve the plan, and generate items that are checked as they’re written.
Review the bank
Edit, refine and verify items, and see duplicates, coverage and answer balance at a glance.
Publish and maintain
Publish to the formats you need, then let the studio flag items when the material changes.
Everything an item bank needs, in one studio
Create
Learns from all your material
Reads documents, slides, video and audio, including what figures and on-screen visuals show, not just the words.
A map of what each source teaches
Lists the topics in every document and the level of thinking each one calls for.
Planned to your objectives
Spreads a batch of new items across the objectives and sources you choose, or aims them at the gaps in your coverage.
Checked as they’re written
Each item is reviewed and refined, then checked against item-writing standards such as clear stems, parallel options and no clues to the answer.
Curate
Targeted rewrites
Rewrite a whole item or a single option, move the correct answer, or suggest new distractors, with your own instructions if you want them.
Finds duplicates, even reworded ones
Spots items that ask the same thing in different words, so the bank doesn’t test one fact twice.
Coverage and answer balance
Shows which objectives and topics are well covered, which are thin, and whether correct answers are spread evenly.
Independent verification
Checks items against a separate library of reference documents and quotes the passage that confirms or contradicts them.
Keep current
Knows when material changes
Recognises a new version of a document and summarises what changed.
Flags the items affected
After a change, every item based on that material is marked broken, needs review, or unaffected, with a report you can export.
Publish
Ready for exam delivery
Exports the bank as a delivery workbook or spreadsheet, with each item’s source and page or timecode, named the way your programme names them.
Practice exams and study guides
Produces a self-contained practice exam with a timer and an explained score report, and a searchable study guide linked to the section that teaches each answer.
Every item has a paper trail
When someone asks “where did this question come from?”, the answer is already recorded.
- Its source. Generated items record the document and the page or timecode they were written from.
- Its quality checks. The review history and standards checks are kept with the item.
- Its verification. Where an item has been verified, the deciding reference passage is quoted.
When the course changes, you know which items to fix
Update a source document and the studio checks every item built on it, sorting them into three groups.
Built for confidential content
Runs on your own servers
Installs on your own hardware, and can run fully on-premises, even on a network with no internet connection.
No tracking, no phoning home
The studio sends no usage data and makes no update checks. Everything it shows is served from your own installation.
Each exam kept separate
Every exam project’s material is held apart from the others by default.
Individual sign-in
Personal accounts with administrator and user roles, and protection against repeated sign-in attempts.
The benefits at a glance
Faster authoring
Planned, batch generation gives your experts a strong first draft to review instead of a blank page.
Defensible items
Every generated item can show where it came from and how it was checked.
Fewer errors reach candidates
Independent verification catches inaccurate items before they’re published.
Banks that stay current
Changes to course material are traced to the exact items they affect.
A better-balanced bank
Duplicates, coverage gaps and answer patterns are visible and fixable.
One bank, many outputs
Delivery files, practice exams and study guides all come from the same source, with nothing to copy and keep in step.
For anyone responsible for an exam
Certification bodies
Grow and maintain item banks that stand up to scrutiny, across many exams.
Training providers
Write exams that test exactly what your courses teach, and keep them in step as courses change.
Corporate learning teams
Assess internal programmes from your own material, without it leaving your organisation.
Courseware and exam teams
Give subject experts a head start, and spend their time on judgement rather than drafting.
Build a better exam bank
Talk to us about Platinum Exam Studio for your exam programme.