I needed to write a certification exam review and simulation. The review was broken into a bunch of different areas, but the exam simulation was 200 questions drawn in a certain proportion from the review areas. For the review it was easy because I could randomly pull any question within that area and keep pretty normal track of what I had done, but for the simulation I had to

I made a master list of all of the questions from the first to the 1178th. I wrote a calc to generate a random number between, say, 1 and 200, where I knew that the first 200 questions in my master list were from area 1, and I looped through it X times to get X "index" numbers. Then I changed the parameters so the random numbers were between 201 and 400 and X was reset to the number of questions I needed from the second section, and so on. Once I had index numbers for all 200 questions, I could selectively load just the questions I needed and their answers and execute the simulation.

The only problem I ran into was that I had to test the random numbers to make sure I didn't get multiple copies of a particular question (i.e., to make sure they were random enough). I lost some flexibility in that I had a lot of things to change when I deleted or added questions - if I did it over again, I'd make that stuff more dynamic. When the finished product is delivered over the web, there's quite a delay because at some point the piece needs to have all 1178 questions available on the user's computer. But all in all, it does what I was aiming for, and it sounds like you're aiming toward the same place.

If you've used the KOs, there's probably not much you can easily do (and that arrow isn't handy for me). Also, I had plotted to do things this way from the outset, so I don't know how well it will adapt to what you've already done.

-- Dave Salovesh RAM Associates, Inc. (202) 543-3635

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