Development of AHMES (Automatical Higher Mathematics Examination System) Using Rational Unified Process

Table 6

Feedbacks on the exam papers generated by AHMES.

Positive	Negative
1. Compared with the traditional way, it saves more than 90% of the time for teachers to write exam papers	1. The calculation of some questions is complicated
2. It is perfectly possible for each student to get an exam paper with completely different topics but the similar difficulty level	2. The number of question types is somewhat insufficient
3. The general difficulty of the exam paper is as expected	3. There is some confusion in the questions of exam papers
4. Engines’ difficulty range could be adjusted based on historical data	4. The difficulty of some questions is not suitable