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What is Socrato?

Test preparation is an important part of your life. Scores in many key exams impact the admission in right college, schools, grant of scholarship money and lot more. Socrato is designed to simplify the way tutors/teachers can help students, and students can improve their learning plus scores on important admission tests like the SAT, ACT, PSAT etc. and subject study for Math, English etc.

Why it Matter

One of the proven ways to improve learning and test scores is to take a practice test, score, analyze & synthesize the results, identify the focus area, work on gaps, and repeat the cycle. In this process one has to make sure, if available, student practices the retired real tests from the testing organization themselves. 

 Released or Retired tests results are the best indicator of performance. They are available for low prices or for free from bookstores, libraries, or from testing organization themselves. Unfortunately, many of these tests take a lot of time in scoring and analysis. There is no easy way to synthesize, analyze and leverage hard data to understand the student performance, and to create an optimal study plan. Socrato’s learning analytics technology and diagnostic analysis engine can automatically Score and generate very advance diagnostic analysis for many of these tests.

How is it Better

  • Retired (Released) Test leads to Real Insights - Socrato allow user to prepare and practice using Retired Tests using paper and pencil, the tests from the testing agencies that they have purchased from a bookstore or other sources.
  • Beyond Scores Analysis make Study more Efficient - Simple score for any given test are not very helpful. Student’s performance in a test can be impacted by number of factors. To name a few:  knowledge of content, confidence, test taking strategies, stamina, distraction etc.  Socrato’s learning analytics is designed to look for various factors that can impact the learning and scores. The Diagnostic reports provide quantifiable impact and points lost by various categories. This tangible, actionable and granular feedback enables user to create a most optimal study plan, and focus on areas that need most attention.
  • Save Time – One can quickly score and analyze their full length or section practice tests online with majority of work being done using paper and pencil.
  • Multiple Tests , One Account – Helps you Score and Analyze for multiple Exams / Tests with just one account.
  • Save Money - Prep for multiple exams all with one low-cost and ‘Pay as you Go’ Socrato account.

How it Works

Socrato works in two modes: 
Online Processing Only
Answer Only
Online Practice & Processing
Online Questions [OQ] & Answers
  1. Buy tests from publisher / test company
  2. Practice using paper and pencil
  3. Transfer bubble responses in Socrato (online, via scanner)
  4. View online or download scores and analysis reports*
  1. Select pre configured tests or create custom test from online bank
  2. Practice online OR print on paper and upload bubble responses in Socrato
  3. View online or download scores and analysis reports
*After proprietary rules setup, requires student responses along with correct answers. Advance practice exercises can be created on fly.

  • Tests with Online Processing Only - For these Tests, Socrato do not host or distribute the actual questions of test online. Student practice on paper / pencil with Retired Tests, the tests from the testing agencies that they have purchased from a bookstore, other sources or testing agencies themselves. Once practice test is done, user transfers or uploads student responses for the test to Socrato. Using proprietary analysis and methods Socrato is able to do the processing with detailed diagnostic analysis for these tests. Majority of the admission tests falls in this category.
  • Tests with Online Questions [OQ] for Practice and Processing.  For these Tests, Socrato hosts the actual questions online. Similar to Processing Only tests, if uses work using paper/pencil, Socrato is able to do the processing with detailed diagnostic analysis. Additionally, user can also Practice / Take Test online / Print and can create new custom tests from the questions on fly. For grade 3 - 10 Math and ELA there is a big collection of items/question bank and test bank online.

How is Help Organized

This wiki provides overview and steps for key actions in Socrato.com. Before you start, please note, when a new user account is created in Socrato, only one of the many user roles can be assigned to an account.  This role controls the access to features in Socrato system. Not all features may be accessible to a user.
We are constantly making changes in Socrato, the help section is also constantly evolving, if you discover any issues, please feel free to drop us an email or leave a comment.

Please Notes – the conventions used in the help area as follows:
  • Any thing inside double quotes (“Action“) is an action by user.
  • Anything with in single quote (‘Reference‘) is a reference to some other place.
  • Any things between  double bracket (<<defined at run time>>) is defined at use time.

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