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Make Your Site Interactive!!

This page is for webmasters. If you are looking for medical/dental mcqs click here.

Have you ever wondered whether you can make your mcq pages interactive, without having to go through the tedious job of mastering web programming. Let me do that for you!! I have developed an application which can read mcq pages directly from your server and make it interactive!. And this application is free for non commercial use. I have named it mcqXML.

faqs:

Do I have to register for using this function?

Registration is not needed for using this function. But if you send me (webmaster@gulfdoctor.net) your name, email and web site URL I can keep you informed about the changes and upgrade.

How do I use it?

Only thing you have to do is to make your mcq pages docpg compliant. This will help in the future in making data integration between entrance sites easier. My ultimate aim is to standardize all web based medical data, so that data integration becomes easy.

How do I make my mcq pages docpg compliant?

Add the following tags (marked red) to your HTML as shown below.

<HEAD>

........

</HEAD>

<BODY>

......

<QUES>

mcqs start from here.

<QCODE>

1001

</QCODE>

<QUE>

What is the colour of blood?

</QUE>

<CH1>

Red

</CH1>

<CH2>

Green

</CH2>

<CH3>

Blue

</CH3>

<CH4>

Violet

</CH4>

<ANS>

</ANS>

<EXPL>

</EXPL>

<REFR>

</REFR>

<QCODE>

1002

<QUE>

Next Question

.....

......

</QUES>

To make it simple, the programme supports only 4 tags now.

<QUES>,<QCODE>,<ANS> and <EXPL>. After the title, before the mcqs put the tag <QUES> in a single line in capital letters. Put <QCODE> and </QCODE> before and after question number in single line in capital letters. Put <ANS> and </ANS> before and after the answer which has to be a single letter (a,b,c or d). Put <EXPL></EXPL>after that and start with the next question. When everything is over put </QUES>, where you expect the submit button.

Here is an example.

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
 Yoursite.com 's entrance paper
You may format this is what ever way you like
You can put your emblem and other details
<QUES>
<QCODE>
1.
</QCODE>
<QUE>
 Lymphatic drainage from the lateral border of foot and heel is to
</QUE>
 a. Superficial inguinal
 b. Deep inguinal
 c. External Iliac
 d. Popliteal
<ANS>
d
</ANS>
<EXPL>
</EXPL>
<QCODE>
 2.
</QCODE>
<QUE>
 The membranous part of atrioventricular part of interventricular septum divides
</QUE>
 a. Right Atrium and left Ventricle
 b. Left atrium and right Ventricle
 c. Right atrium and right ventricle
 d. Left atrium and left ventricle
<ANS>
a
</ANS>
<EXPL>
</EXPL>
<QCODE>
3.
</QCODE>
<QUE>
 The axillary sheath is derived from which of the following deep cervical fascia
</QUE>
 a. Investing layer
 b. Pretracheal layer
 c. Prevertebral layer
 d. Carotid sheath
<ANS>
c
</ANS>
<EXPL>
</EXPL>
</QUES>
You can enter more details here!
</body>
</html>

What do I after this?

You have to upload this file to your server. Say the path to the file is http://www.geocities.com/entrancesite/mcq.htm Your link should be

http://www.myjavaserver.com/servlet/netderm.mcqXML?function=1&url=http://www.geocities.com/entrancesite/mcq.htm

You can put a link to the next file also in the first file so that you can have a series of mcq tests. For example the next link in the first page may be.

http://www.myjavaserver.com/servlet/netderm.mcqXML?function=1&url=http://www.geocities.com/entrancesite/mcq2.htm

What are the other functions of mcqXML?

mcqXML also supports automatic doubt mailing to the docpg expert team. Join the docpg expert team (send a blank email to docpg@yahoogroups.com) and you can provide online support to your clients.

After all these, if it still doesn't work try uploading the file in ASCII format if you have been doing it in BINARY format and vice versa.

If you have any further doubts, you may contact me at webmaster@gulfdoctor.net

Here is a working example.

http://www.gulfdoctor.net/test.htm is a mcq file with the tags added. First click here and access the page. It will be displayed in the normal way. Right click and 'view the source'. You can see how the tags are placed. Now call the same page through the programme. http://www.myjavaserver.com/servlet/netderm.mcqXML?function=1&url=http://www.gulfdoctor.net/test.htm