Introduction

R's PlacePrep is an exam preparation and assessment platform designed to help students prepare for campus placement drives and university examinations. The platform provides practice questions, previous year papers, courses, proctored online exams, and placement listings.

Key Features

For Students

• Company Questions: Practice questions organized by company and exam pattern, with solutions
• Previous Year Questions (PYQ): Browse and export university papers by branch, semester, subject, and year
• Learn: Structured courses with lessons and quizzes, with progress tracking
• Online Exams: Join exams with an exam code and attempt them under timed, optionally fullscreen-proctored conditions
• Instant Results: Objective questions are scored immediately; coding questions are evaluated afterwards
• Ranking: See your rank among participants when the admin enables it for that exam
• Review Answers: Compare your answers with the correct ones and read evaluator feedback
• Placements: Browse placement posts from your college's TNP cell, apply, and track your applications
• Result Lookup: Open your official BEU semester result directly from your profile

For Administrators

• Exam Creation: Build exams from the question pool, custom questions, or AI-generated questions
• Exam Configuration: Control duration, schedule, negative marking, early submission, fullscreen enforcement, ranking, and college visibility
• Evaluation Tools: Manually grade coding questions or use AI-assisted evaluation (Groq or Gemini)
• Review Requests: Handle student re-evaluation requests
• Placements: Create placement posts, target colleges/branches/years, and export applicants as CSV
• Student Profiles: View, lock/unlock, and export student TNP profiles
• Members: View and export students from your college
• Feedback: Exam feedback is collected into a Google Sheet, split by college

Self-Hosting

PlacePrep can run entirely offline on a LAN for in-person exams, using a local Appwrite instance in Docker with cloud sync before and after the exam.

Getting Started

Choose your role to get started:

• Student Guide - Learn how to use the platform as a student
• Admin Guide - Learn how to manage exams, placements, and evaluation
• Super Admin Guide - Role management and platform-wide administration
• Exam Management - Understand the exam creation process
• Dashboard Overview - Explore the dashboard features
• Self-Hosting - Run PlacePrep offline for in-person exams

Contributing

Want to help improve R's PlacePrep?

• Contributing Guide - Learn how to contribute content or code