Monday, July 21, 2008

Taking the cyber route to tests

The Tribune
May 6, 2008
By Sanjeev Singh Bariana
Teachers are uploading tests online for students who are preparing for various entrance examinations, and even some regular courses, and in the process, some of them have found a lucrative outlet for their energies.
Our website has evoked ‘overwhelming’ response from the teaching community nationwide, and hundreds of satisfied teachers are uploading their tests on this unique website and are being financially benefited, said Kamal Wadhera, the CEO of tcyonline.com. “This, very large, teacher-student platform in the country is a real boon for teachers because now they can earn a life-long income through our website,” he added.
Students can prepare for BEd, bank POs, BBA, BCA, GRE, GMAT, LAW, MBA, MCA, GATE and more than a dozen more tests. The company has devised a special formula for payment to teachers based on downloading of their tests and attempts made by students. Surpassing our all expectations, more and more teachers are flocking to this democratic platform every day and earning a handsome income,” the CEO said.
This education company, engaged in school supplementary education and college test preparation for about a decade now, launched this unique platform mainly for teachers to enable them earn a steady monthly income by uploading their content on the website. Since the launch of this platform about couple of months back, nearly 2,500 teachers have registered themselves on the site and many of them have started earning from this platform.
Javed Ahmed, an IT professional-turned-online teacher, who started uploading his MBA tests about two months back, is a happy man today, thanks to the initiative by this website. “I couldn’t imagine teachers can make such easy money until I came across this website while surfing the Net.Basically, I am an IT professional but the money through uploading tests has really supplemented my income,” he said.
For a blogger-turned-online teacher, Rajiv Vashisht, this website has come as a ‘good lucrative business’. He has uploaded quite a good number of MBA and English tests since the last one month. Vashisht is of the view the tests should be ‘better categorised’ for the convenience of the students and the payment system for the teachers should be further streamlined.
Manoj Dogra, an online teacher from Himachal Pradesh, is all praise for this ‘totally unique’ website. “While other websites charge money, to my knowledge tcyonline.com is the only website which is totally free for teachers and students,” he said. Dogra is also running his own coaching institute for competitive exams.
The portal already has more than 80,000 enrollments. The company is fast moving to achieve its 100,000-enrollment target soon. On an average, over 5,000 students visit the site daily.
The tcyonline.com is currently paying a good amount to the teachers as per each test uploaded. On top of that, they are also making money since the students have started attempting these tests. So, in a way they can turn their one-time effort into a life-long earning.
Thousands of free downloadable tests are available on the website for school and college examinations apart from some competitive tests being held in the country from time to time. These practice tests help the student in not only assessing his or her level before the actual exam, but are a wonderful way to benchmark himself or herself with anybody and anywhere in country.

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