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Does the testee have to get all of the questions at once?

It would be trivial to start a session timer when the first question/group of questions is presented and on each successive page that's presented put "You have x minutes left to complete the exam"

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dpyers, the testee would have all the questions at once. Perhaps I'll split it should there be let's say, more than 25 questions. And indeed, the timer should not start again on each page.

KC, in one of my previous post I have eplained that I think is rather depressing to get the "time's up" message after you fill in the test and submited it. And the problem is that this is a generic program, people could be using it for any kind of tests (psihological, professional, etc.) so some of them would not be failed/passed type. That's why the program only pass the final score to the people that generated the test and they would decide if 85 points means that a testee fails, pass, is a math genius, a suicidal type or a good father!
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When you serve up the first page, set the javascript timer in the html, and a session timer in global.asa.

The javascript timer can send them to the "times up" page when it expires.

The code that does the corrections, can check the session timer.

Intermediate pages can also check the session timer and update the javascript timer if the two are out of synch (timers using different technologies on different platforms are +- to some degree).

Depending upon the length of the test, you may need to change the session timeout variable in global.asa as most hosts use the default of 20 minutes.

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Or a simpler method. In examiner.asp?quiz=1&uid=28&PageNr=1 the jscript trigger the expiration time from the db and the page woud set a cookie. In the next page, examiner.asp?quiz=1&uid=28&PageNr=2, it would trigger the expiration time from DateDiff("n", TotalExpirationTime, cookie).
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