FastTest: Professional Exam Management
FastTest is a comprehensive ecosystem to support high-stakes or high-volume exams. Manage your entire assessment program, from item banking and test assembly through secure delivery, adaptive testing, eCommerce, and automated psychometric reporting, in one system.
Designed by assessment professionals, for assessment professionals.
FastTest drives the entire assessment cycle, with modern psychometrics embedded throughout, including item response theory (IRT) and computerized adaptive testing (CAT). This makes it easier to develop high-quality items, assemble tests, deliver online, analyze statistics, and get results – fast.
Cost-Effective
Better tests need better questions. FastTest makes it easier to manage large item pools and SMEs with customizable authoring workflows, metadata tagging, and exposure controls.
Efficient Item Review
Deploy Faster
Make content experts more productive with intuitive interfaces. Publish tests in minutes with automated assembly or LOFT. Quickly upload your examinees or plug in an API.
CAT, MST, & LOFT
Deliver Securely
Configure the security controls your program needs: passcodes, proctor access, lockdown browser, time windows, navigation controls, and IP restrictions.
Test Security
Smarter Exams
Designed to drive best practices and advanced psychometrics like IRT and CAT. Apply responsible AI like item generation or essay scoring.
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The end-to-end solution for high-quality assessment
Item banking, test assembly, publishing, scheduling, delivery, psychometric analysis, score reports, candidate portal… It’s all there.
Develop Item Banks Faster, Publish New Forms Quickly
Item authoring & assembly: Build item banks with customisable workflows, then assemble and publish test forms in minutes — manually or via automated blueprinting.
Rich item types: Author MCQ, drag-and-drop, essay, fill-in-the-blank, and performance-based items — all in one interface.
SME review workflows: Route items through subject matter experts with configurable approval stages, version control, and status tracking.
Improve assessment validity: Detailed metadata, including custom fields and statistics.
Easily assemble, publish, and manage your exams
Build defensible tests: Harness Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT) for robust test design, supporting multiple IRT models.
Set cutscores: Use the modified-Angoff method for defensible cutscores – remotely, without travel costs for workshops.
Secure delivery: Set navigation controls, access, lockdown browser, and much more.
Automated scoring and reporting: Linear or normative scaled scoring conversions and automated psychometric reports.
Flexibly manage your high-stakes test delivery with FastTest
Versatile delivery methods: Protect online tests with remote proctoring, test centers, adaptive (CAT), multistage, or LOFT methods.
Advanced security options: From open links to lockdown browsers, control your test’s security level.
Built-in eCommerce: Easily integrate payment/registration options for test takers.
Enhance assessment quality with automated scoring and psychometrics
Instant reports: Generate detailed reports in Microsoft Word with one click to evaluate item and test performance.
Test insights: Access descriptive statistics, reliability indices, standard error measurements, and distribution analyses.
Item analysis: Review quantile plots, difficulty, discrimination (point biserial), and distractor analysis for item-level insights
Automated scoring and reporting: Linear or normative scaled scoring conversions and automated psychometric reports.
FastTest is the best IRT-based adaptive testing platform
IRT item banking: Store calibrated IRT parameters directly in your item bank, uploaded from our Xcalibre platform, R packages, or other popular software.
Set configuration: Specify item selection, content balancing, exposure controls, and termination criterion. Not sure what to use? We can help.
Publish and deliver with one click: Once set up, simply publish the test and you can start delivering IRT-based adaptive tests immediately.
| Features | LMS or Basic Exam Platforms | FastTest | Big Corporations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Item banking with SME workflows | No | Yes – Professional-grade | Yes – But you often don’t have full access |
| Advanced psychometrics | No | Yes – IRT, CAT, LOFT, Angoff, multistage | Yes – Often with additional costs |
| Automated tech reports | No | Yes – IRT and CTT | No – Pay extra to provide |
| SOC2 Type 2 security accreditation | No | Yes – Audited by 3rd party | Maybe |
| Ability to customize | No | Yes – Talk to us! | No |
| API integrations and white-label delivery | No | Yes – Embed and integrate with your platform | No |
| Essay marking module | No | Yes – Custom rubrics and rater management | No |
| Integrated eCommerce & Cert Management System | No | Yes – Check out Credicycle! | Maybe |
| You maintain control over your program, with full access | No | Yes – Explicitly in our contract | No – Pay extra to get your data |
| Transparent pricing | Yes | Yes – Starts at $6750/year | No – and often $50k minimum |
FAQ: FastTest
There are a ton of assessment tools on the market. FastTest is designed only for exams where the quality is critical and psychometrics is non-negotiable.
Yes. FastTest is purpose-built as an enterprise exam management system. It handles every phase of a professional testing program, from item authoring and content review workflows through test assembly, delivery logistics, candidate management, and psychometric reporting — in one integrated platform.
Highly secure. We have achieved SOC2 Type 2 security accreditation from an independent third party auditor. Users are provided with specific roles and content-based access. You can turn on additional features like multi-factor authentication. Examinees can be required to have unique one-time passwords, lockdown browser, and activity tracking. You govern time limits, re-take access, time/date window, and much more. Add on live remote proctoring for an additional layer.
Yes. FastTest has native support for computerized adaptive testing (CAT), multistage testing (MST), and linear on-the-fly testing (LOFT). Its Adaptive testing engine uses IRT-based algorithms to select items matched to each candidate’s estimated ability level, shortening tests by up to 50–90% with no loss of measurement precision. Setup requires importing calibrated IRT parameters, configuring item selection and termination criteria, and publishing — no coding required.
Yes. FastTest is designed specifically for high-stakes exam programs. It is SOC2 Type 2 certified by an independent third-party auditor and includes security controls required for professional licensure and certification: role-based access, candidate authentication, lockdown browser, one-time passwords, IP restrictions, multi-factor authentication, and comprehensive audit logging. It is used by credentialing bodies, government agencies, and regulated-industry testing programs. Furthermore, it helps support complex studies like Job Task Analysis, standard setting studies like the Angoff method, or machine-learning analytics like item response theory.
Basic online testing tools — including LMS quiz modules and consumer test builders — are a commodity designed for lower-stakes assessments with limited software requirements. FastTest is an enterprise exam management system built for programs where measurement quality, security, and defensibility are non-negotiable. Key differences include native IRT and CAT support, professional item banking with SME workflows, automated psychometric reporting, SOC2 Type 2 security certification, and integration capabilities (API, SSO, eCommerce). There are only a handful of professional-grade platforms at this level — FastTest is one of them.
Remote proctoring is a way to ensure the validity and integrity of your test without forcing examinees to drive to a physical testing center. There is actually a range of options pertaining to levels of security, from low-security exams that just record video with AI flagging to high-security exams where the computer is locked down and there are two video streams watched by a live person in real time. ASC partners with a number of providers to tailor a solution to your needs and budget.
Request a demo from one of our product experts. If your organization is qualified to leverage next-gen online assessment software, we can provide a free trial account as well as pricing. Our consultants can also meet with you to advise on the test development process.
Yes! We frequently work organizations that need a hand in developing high-quality assessments. We focus on high-stakes tests like professional certifications or university admissions, including topics like job analysis, test design, standard setting, statistical analysis, equating, and adaptive testing. We do not work with low-quality assessments like a happiness survey.
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