SARAS test and assessment is a smart, secure, and reliable platform for all assessment needs. SARAS
test and assessment provides high-quality assessment solutions across various sectors, including
professional sectors, awarding bodies, test publishers, educational publishers, universities, colleges,
schools, and corporations. It has been adopted globally as a platform to enhance the versatility of
test management and delivery.
SARAS product has various modules and features such as item authoring, item bank management,
meta-data management, test authoring, test bank management, item authoring workflow
configuration, secured and device agnostic exam delivery, candidate management system, test center
management, IRT based reports, analytical reports, remote proctoring system with live and recorded
invigilation capabilities, Integration APIs for 3rd party system integrations, and a few other key
features.
SARAS is critically tested and certified for the application security. It supports auto scaling
deployment to handle higher concurrency of test-takers and ensure no compromise in performance.
SARAS architecture enables to scaling of specific services on-demand, such as the authoring service,
the test delivery service, the reporting service and a few others. It supports enterprise, public cloud,
private cloud and hybrid deployments.
The test & assessment module also offers the SARAS eMarking Service, which is a comprehensive
marking solution that supports end-to-end on-screen marking processes. The processes include
Marking project setup, Pre-standardisation and standardisation, live marking, quality management,
auto and semi-auto marking and publishing results to the assessment systems. Roles such as
principal examiner, team leader, examiner and assistant examiner are part of the marking service,
and each role is provided with a customised dashboard and functions based on their role
requirements.
The lifecycle of SARAS - The first version of SARAS test & assessment product was developed during
2002-2005. The next upgrade Versions 2.0 and 3.0 were released in 2012 and 2015 respectively. With
a new naming convention, Version 4 Release 1 was released in 2021 and the current version is
Version 4 Release 29.