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All Candidates
After logging into the exam, verifying your name and clicking the "...begin exam" button, you will be taken to the first question. Questions will appear one per page.
The navigation bar shows all questions in the exam in red if there is no answer, in green if there is an answer. You may click on these to take you to any question on the exam. For CAIBs 1-3, these will be divided into 3 sections:
- Definition Questions
- A technical term or phrase will be provided. Marks will be awarded based on your ability to define it. These require a brief answer — a sentence or two long.
- Multiple Choice Questions
- A short question with a list of multiple options for the correct answer. Select the best answer from the list.
- Short Answer
- Consist of either a single clause or multipart question. Students are asked to write a short answer of between 1 and 3 sentences. Marks are awarded for correctness and completeness of your answer, not the length of the answer.
CAIB 4 only has one Short Answer Section.
Submission of a single question
Questions are submitted to the database when you:
- Click the '<< Previous' or 'Next >>' buttons at the bottom of the question. These will also take you to the corresponding question.
- Click the 'Save' button at the bottom of the question. You may wish to save if you are spending some time on a particular answer. Should you accidentally close the window or other issues such as power failure close the exam, unsaved partial answers may be lost.
- Click the "Review' button at the bottom of the last question. This will take you to the review page where you can check your answers and submit the exam.
- Navigate to another question by clicking the question number on the left side navigation bar
- Click the Review and Submit link on the left side navigation bar. This will also take you to the review page.
Final Submission and Review of the Exam
- Navigate to the Review page using the navigation bar link, or the 'Review' button on the last question.
- Verify that all questions are answered - A visual scan of the navigation bar will show any empty answers, but a thorough look through of the exam is recommended as you may have submitted an empty or incomplete answer.
- You may navigate back to any question by clicking the "Edit Question #" link or by clicking the question number on the navigation bar.
- When you are satisfied, you may submit the exam by checking the check box and clicking the button at the bottom of the Review page.
- Once submitted, the exam will enter a marking queue, managed by IBABC.
After logging into the exam, you will be taken to the first section of three:
- Definition Questions
- A technical term or phrase will be provided. Marks will be awarded based on your ability to define it. These require a brief answer — a sentence or two long.
- Multiple Choice Questions
- A short question with a list of multiple options for the correct answer. Select the best answer from the list.
- Short Answer
- Consist of either a single clause or multipart question. Students are asked to write a short answer of between 1 and 3 sentences. Marks are awarded for correctness and completeness of your answer, not the length of the answer.
Text Based Question Entry
For short answer and essay questions, the exam offers formatting control
options attached to each text entry area if the student wishes to make an answer’s
format neater. Their use is not required and will not impact the exam grade. As
stated, above use of text formatting is not required, and IBABC strongly advises
against spending any significant time formatting exam answers. Content, clarity
and ensuring that the marker will understand your comprehension should be students’
highest priority. In addition, the text area will grow as you type in order to accommodate
any length of answer, so student do not need to limit the length of answers.
Error Recovery
In the event circumstances beyond reasonable control such as:
- Network failure,
- Power failure, or
- Emergency at the location of the exam
Prevent the exam from proceeding as
planned; the proctor must notify the Licensing Course Coordinator at the IBABC
office immediately.Time allocations
will be altered base on the sole discretion and assessment of IBABC.
The event the exam has been lost or
closed out of in error, simply return to the login page, and login again as if
you were starting fresh. You will be presented with the same exam
question set, and any questions which were answered that were submitted prior to
the interruption will be available for revision. In the worst case scenario, you will only lose the single question you were working on when the outage occured.
You can verify the current state of the exam by looking at the Question
Navigator grid on the left menu.
Exam Policy
- The candidate must not receive assistance from anyone and/or other resources (e.g., textbooks, websites, notes, etc.) while writing the exam. Cellphone/Smartwatch usage is not allowed.
- The candidate must not attempt to copy and paste the questions and/or answers from/to other websites/notepads, as well as within the question.
- The candidate must submit the exam within the allotted time. Any extra time allowed due to technical difficulties is at the discretion of the proctor.
- The candidate must not copy, capture, print, and/or share any of the exam questions and/or answers with others.
Please note that violating any of the exam rules may invalidate your exam.
