Patent ID: 6975563

Claim:
Improvement in a multi-mode electronic timepiece, said timepiece having an electrooptic display, a memory, a vibrator alarm device, a plurality of manually actuated actuators and a programmable integrated circuit programmed to keep time and to provide a plurality of timepiece operating modes, said integrated circuit being further programmed to permit an operator to switch between modes in response to actuation of a selected actuator; said integrated circuit being further programmed to display information in response to actuation of a selected actuator; said integrated circuit being further programmed to display, to increment, to decrement, and to store displayed information in memory in response to actuation of a selected actuator, to perform calculations thereon and to display said information and results of said calculations on said display; said integrated circuit being further programmed to provide vibrations produced by said vibrator alarm device in response to information stored in memory, wherein said improvement comprises; a multi-mode electronic timepiece especially adapted to assist a user to take a multiple question timed examination, said multi-mode electronic timepiece comprising: a test timer setting mode adapted to enable a user to select and store in memory 1) a selected examination time period, 2) a selected number of examination questions, and 3) a selected number of alert points; and a test tinier mode being adapted 1) to display time remaining in the examination and the question number corresponding to time remaining, and 2) to actuate said vibrator alarm device at each occurrence of an alert point; said multi-mode electronic timepiece in said timer mode being operable to calculate the time remaining for each displayed question number, the time remaining for said displayed question number being selectively displayed responsive to actuation of a selected actuator.