Pune students develop Examsy, app-solute guide for exams

“Collecting the papers and analysing the frequently-asked-questions was a harrowing task for us as students. We thought why not make our data public which student can access. And thus, the idea of Examsy was born,” says Joshi. Joshi is currently pursuing LLB, Dhavalikar has passed out as an engineer from PICT, Pune.

The name of the app is based on its tagline — Exams made Easy. Talking about the benefits of Examsy, elaborates Joshi, “It eliminates the need to look for past papers. All questions along with their importance are just a click away.”

Though the first version of the application was launched in September 2014, Joshi and Dhavalikar kept changing it. The current version is the third version, launched in August 2015. While the first version included only the 5-year law course, the third version includes 3-year law course as well. The question papers available on the app are 2011 onwards. Though the android mobile application currently caters to law students, the duo are in the process of diversifying the data to BCS, BSc and BA courses, which will be incorporated in the app by March.

The biggest challenge, according to Dhavalikar, was gathering the data, compiling it and analysing it. “This had to be done well before the exams. The next one was integrating the resulting statistics into an app. While Gaurav (Joshi) did the data analysis, I managed the coding part,” he adds. The other challenge, says Joshi, was to convince students that it was time to upgrade from old style question banks to a new-age tool like Examsy, which is available free for download. Interestingly, many students encouraged them by helping the duo with data collection. The response to Examsy has been motivating for both Joshi and Dhavalikar. “As per Google Analytics, around 1,500 people are using the application,” says Dhavalikar, adding that there’s also a demand from the students for cross platform implementation of the app. More and more students are expecting the app to be available on iOS and Windows systems.