SELF-EVALUATION FOR THE COMMON PROFICIENCY TEST

The ICAI-Board of studies will provide a study package to the

students registering for common proficiency test. This package
will contain four books & a compact disk (CD).

A student has to prepare for the test (CPT) by reading the study
material which has been prepared with focus on objective type
test.

This CD supplied with the study package contains a software by

which a student will be able to check their preparedness and
strengthen their knowledge for appearing in the common
proficiency test (cpt).

Students are advised to follow the instructions given in the

document file named “read me” in the CD.

RULES & REGULATIONS

 The self-evaluation software comprises 2 sessions; namely
Session 1 and Session2.
 Each Session contain two Sections. Session 1 includes
Section A & Section B and Session 2 includes Section C &
Section D
 Session 1 contains 50 questions of MCQ type (Multiple Choice
Questions) comprising two subjects. Section A comprises
Fundamentals In Accounting and Section B comprises
Mercantile Law. There are 30 questions in Section A comprising
Fundamentals In Accounting and 20 questions in Section B
comprising Mercantile Law. Each question carries 2 marks. For
each wrong answer, 0.5 marks will be deducted. Time limit for
attempting 50 questions is one hour.
 Session 2 contains 50 questions of MCQ type (Multiple Choice
Questions) comprising two subjects. Section C comprises
General Economics and Section D comprises Quantitative
 Aptitude. There are 25 questions in Section C comprising
General Economics and 25 questions in Section D comprising
Quantitative Aptitude. Each question carries 2 marks. For each
wrong answer, 0.5 marks will be deducted. Time limit for
attempting 50 questions is one hour.

SOFTWARE INSTALLATION PROCEDURE

 Insert Software CD into the CD-ROM and explore the CD
content.
 Run SETUP.EXE by double click on it.
 A setup wizard will start and following screen will appear :

Click Here to Start

Installation.

 Then follow the instructions given by the wizard.

 After finishing Installation you find an item added to the "Start
Menu" under "Programs" titled "Common Proficiency Test".
 Click here to start the Application and follow the following
instructions.
STEPS FOR STARTING THE SELF EVALUATION TEST

 Before attempting for a test each time you need to undergo

initialization process. You will find a top-level menu called
Administrator. Click on the Administrator. You will find an
option called Session Initialization. Click on Session
Initialization. Clicking on Session Initialization you will find a
screen, called Initialization for Next Test. You need to click on
the button called Initialization. By clicking on it, you will get a
prompt as “Are you sure?” To initialize it, you need to click on
“YES” option. Now, you will see a small display screen called
“completed…” Click on OK. After initializing, click on close
button in the Session Initialization screen.
 To start test, click on the top-level menu called Start Project.
You will get an option called start. Click on it. Now you will get
a screen where you need to type your name, you’re BOS –
Registration number and finally you need to select the session.
We have already discussed about the sessions earlier. After
filling all the required parameters, click on start.
 Now, exam will be started and you will also find an automatic
timer, which countdowns in every second. This display the time
limit.
 A question is displayed with four possible options. You need to
select the correct option to attempt the question. For that you
are required to select the drop-down option labeled as
“Answer”, found just below the question description.
 After attempting the question, click on the button labeled as
“Click for Next Question”. In the same fashion, you continue for
the rest questions.
 To visit to the previous attempted or not attempted questions
click on the option labeled as “Click for Previous Question”.
 After attempting all the questions or if the time limit is over, to
know the result or to display the performance report click on
the submit button. Clicking on the submit button, a prompt will
be displayed as “Are you sure you want to end the exam?” Click
on “YES” option to view the result.
 Result displays the detail summery like Marks obtained for
correct answers and deducted for wrong answers and Marks
secured etc. If someone wants to view the correct answers for
wrong answers, click on view button.