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Student Guide 1 PREFACE NTS, a project of its own kind is aimed at setting stan

Student Guide 1 PREFACE NTS, a project of its own kind is aimed at setting standards of excellence in educational testing. NTS is a rapidly growing and credible entity of national repute. Its context and potential coincides with the expressed need of the Government for the establishment of a National Accreditation Council and Testing Service. Establishment of this set-up has been necessitated by the prevailing lack of credibility and absence of standardized testing facilities in our national Institutes. Institutions waste massive amount of work hours in preparing and conducting diverse kind of entrance tests with least credible and authentic consequences. NTS has made a bid to restore some order to the growing chaos in the field of testing. It has developed the capability to offer the testing services to all national institutes providing education. Its content is aimed at identifying the ability-oriented strengths among prospective candidates for IT education. NTS is a multifaceted and comprehensive facility that can provide services at an enormous scale in all dimensions of testing. Based on a vision aimed at providing quality services in educational testing and assessment mechanisms for various stakeholders, NTS is committed to promoting the overall quality of education as a value-added adjunct. It also extends Services for the employed & unemployed professionals to get satisfactory jobs in their relevant fields through an assessment of their knowledge base, skills, and professional expertise & abilities. NTS is a unique and trend-setting venture that has shown great promise. Student Guide 2 1 NTS – INTRODUCTION NTS was formed in 2001 with the basic objective of establishing a credible testing system to evaluate the knowledge level of students against a consistent and standard yardstick. It was felt that although our universities and other educational institutions are producing a large number of qualified professional and non- professional manpower, there is no single standard for quality evaluation of this educated human resource. Since there is no single syllabus right from basic to the advanced levels of education, the normal performance evaluation procedures fail to measure the quality as well as the extent of discrepancy between the existing and the desirable quality for individual candidates. Similarly, a big variation in syllabi and the apparent status of the educational institutions have created a huge gap between the haves and have-nots of the society. The students from big name institutions always have an added advantage where mediocre students are preferred over excellent students from low status institutes because of the brand name of the institutions they carry with them. NTS addresses these important issues by providing testing procedures that evaluate the knowledge and skills of individuals on a unified scale using standardized measures that are independent of class differentiation. In a short period of three years, NTS has made a significant contribution by developing and implementing training and testing programs for individual students, educational institutions and the potential employers of the country. The hallmarks of the NTS system are its consistency, transparency, reliability and efficiency. Being a non-profit organization, it takes pride in offering a cost-efficient system that could meet the needs of individuals and organizations to their utmost satisfaction. NTS continues to strive for excellence through research and development in its testing system and related services. The goal of the organization is to keep contributing towards improvement in education by building standards for educational and professional testing. Its ultimate aim is to be recognized nationally and internationally as a credible and reliable name in the field of testing. 1.1 NTS – BACKGROUND There is an ever-increasing demand of quality professionals around the globe. Our universities and other educational institutions are producing large quantities of professionals, yet there appears to be no single standard for the performance evaluation of these professionals and their quality assurance. Since there isn’t a single standard syllabus, the performance evaluation procedures fail to measure the quality as well as the extent of discrepancy between the existing and the desirable quality of individual candidate. This situation is raising a lack of confidence among the candidates and the entrepreneurs. To alleviate this, there is an immediate need for incorporating an autonomous and a sovereign body, which should cater to the needs of the entrepreneur and harness the individual talent. This body should be made responsible for bridging the gap between the education industry and the practical/professional industry by providing an evaluation and testing standard. This Non Government Organization (NGO), under the name of NTS “National Testing Service” facilitates the evaluation of graduate or undergraduate candidates for admission to any university. NTS will not only lead the educational industry to Student Guide 3 a healthy competition but also improve the standards of the educational institutions in all fields. 1.2. NTS – Objectives Within the overall premise of contributing to the improvement of the quality of education in Pakistan, the important objectives of NTS include: • To improve upon the shortcomings in our prevailing performance evaluation system of candidates through establishing a credible, technically appropriate and accurate system of performance evaluation for students of different educational institutions at various levels. • To provide a standardized and uniform criterion for selecting candidates seeking admission to various universities in the country and abroad and also to provide a basis on which students, individuals and institutions can assess performance for preparation of various types of tests conducted by different international testing agencies. • Enabling assessment and ranking not only in a particular subject on a general competency level but also help in identification of areas of strengths and weaknesses in its sub-contents on a disaggregated basis. • To provide a reliable and efficient system for evaluating the knowledge base and skills of candidates including professionals - employed and unemployed. • Establishing a credible and reliable measure of assessing the students’ knowledge in commonly taught programs for relative ranking. • To bridge the gap between academic preparation and the practical market needs in a highly dynamic and competitive environment. 1.3 NTS – COMMITMENT National Testing Service (NTS) is a non profit, autonomous organization established with the basic objective of developing a credible, technically appropriate and accurate system to evaluate the knowledge level of students of different educational institutions at various levels. It thus assists in carrying out an estimated ranking of students for admissions in various educational institutions and also provides potential employers with a credible yardstick for evaluation and induction of quality human resource. NTS operates on national level and is committed to: 1.3.1 Promoting Overall Quality of Education Based on a vision aimed at providing quality Services in educational testing and assessment mechanisms for various stakeholders, NTS is committed to promoting the overall quality of education as a value-added adjunct. 1.3.2 Performance Evaluation NTS undertakes programs that are aimed at establishing a credible, technically appropriate and accurate system of performance evaluation of students/candidates of various educational institutions at different levels. 1.3.3 Assessing Knowledge, Skills & Professional Abilities Student Guide 4 It also extends services for the employed and unemployed professionals to get satisfactory jobs in their relevant area through an assessment of their knowledge base, skills, and professional abilities. 1.3.4 A Rapidly Growing & Credible Entity NTS is a rapidly growing and credible entity of national repute. Its context and potential coincides with the expressed need of the Government for the establishment of a National Accreditation Council and Testing Service. 1.3.5 Conducting Various Types of Tests While the beginnings were made by conducting General Tests through an IT- focused thrust, NTS has expanded its services to other disciplines of educational testing. It now provides services for conducting Subject Tests by providing facilities both for individual candidates and institutions. These tests are prepared and assessed by experts and professionals from relevant fields. 1.3.6 Linkages & Networks NTS now has growing linkages and associations with educational and professional organizations & Institutions, including those engaged in talent search and career & educational promotion activities, at both national and international levels. 1.4 NTS- BENEFITS NTS aims at being beneficial for both students and institutes. 1.4.1 Students NTS Tests enable students to draw benefits in a number of ways: • It provides a single standard for measuring knowledge base and also skill level evaluation of candidates. • Candidates can have a more transparent, credible and standardized assessment of their knowledge. • Besides being economical, NTS declares the test results in just a few days time. • NTS’ scores are a reliable source to measure candidates’ knowledge in commonly taught academic courses. • Testing through NTS automatically leads to standardization at a national level, which eliminates chances of large dropouts during the course of education. 1.4.2 Institutions Besides students, NTS is also useful for the educational institutes and similar entities: • Institutes, wishing to get admission tests prepared for their candidates, and also wanting to get them scored in a more transparent and in a less time consuming manner can rely on NTS. • This testing service is highly reliable, efficient and standardized; so any of the institutes can share their responsibility with NTS. • The preparation uploads/s1/ fortran-guide.pdf