Patent Document ID: 20020160347
Application ID: 09802312
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computerized method for preparing a user for standardized examinations, said method comprising the steps of: (a) generating a diagnostic test for assessing the user's knowledge of a domain being tested, said test containing a plurality of questions, each question having a corresponding answer set, each said answer set possessing at least one correct answer and at least one incorrect answer, and one or more of said answers being respectively associated with one or more distractor error codes; (b) presenting a series of said questions to said user; (c) eliciting one of said answers from said user for each said question; (d) recording said user's elicited answer for each said question; (e) analyzing said distractor error codes associated with the elicited answer; (f) detecting one or more distractor error patterns from said analysis; (g) diagnosing a deficiency in said domain being tested based on said distractor error patterns; and (h) generating a remediation activity to remediate said diagnosed deficiency.