FAIM – the most comprehensive, reliable and cost effective exams management system available to assessment & qualifications providers worldwide. Now available: • More accurate • More resilient • More cost effective: Intelligent Mark Recognition!

FAIM is a unique database model and series of software components, office based and  web-enabled, a state of the art system that manages ANY type of assessment process.

FAIM is an integrated solution for the administration of courses, examinations and assessment, including both vocational and academic structures. Developed and enhanced over fifteen years, FAIM has been successfully installed internationally in sites as varied, complex and large as schools examination boards, vocational qualification awarding bodies and in sites processing national schools examinations.

A unique database model
The main feature of the Database design - the key to the flexible application of the system - is the concept and use of three primary data groups: "Activities", "Locations" and "People".

Activities: The courses, syllabuses, subjects, assessments, tests, membership category, etc that form the framework for any accreditation or registration, or provision of service.

Locations: The offices that administer the subjects or courses, the schools in which they are taught, Centres where examinations or tests are taken, company offices, training facilities, accommodation, lecture halls, etc.

People: Students, Candidates, Employees, Examiners, Invigilators, Finance Officers, Teachers, etc, in fact anyone who is involved with an activity or a location.

These three groups are designed to be highly flexible and expandable without requiring restructuring of the actual database schema. They are supplemented by a comprehensive range of associated data stores developed over many years.

Roles: The link between the three groups is provided by the assignment of "Roles". A ‘Role’ is what ‘Activity’ the ‘Person’ is undertaking at a ‘Location’.

Software Components
Accessing, processing and managing the database are a series of software modules designed to handle most examinations and assessment processes

FAIM 4 and 5

FAIM4 is the office-based suite of programs running under Windows providing full awarding body functionality. FAIM5 adds ASP.NET web-based registration and testing facilities for remote access by schools, examination centres or individuals.

FAIM is a truly scalable, standards-based, enterprise solution and links to databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, Informix and other standards-based RDBMs.

FAIM processes millions of candidate entries in the UK, Africa and the Caribbean.  

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