Admissions exam platform for secure entrance assessments

Run fair, scalable admissions tests with proctoring, flexible scheduling, automated scoring, and reporting to help your team select the right candidates.

  • Secure delivery
  • Proctoring
  • Accessible
Admissions exam interface.

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Admissions exams

Select candidates with secure, scalable entrance assessments

Integrity, flexible delivery, and analytics built for admissions teams.

  • Protect exam integrity

    Use proctoring and security controls to reduce cheating risk across remote and on-campus admissions sittings.

  • Deliver flexibly

    Invite applicants directly and run entrance exams on campus or remotely, with scheduling that fits rolling admissions and peak intake periods.

  • Shortlist with confidence

    Use question statistics and cohort reporting to identify stronger applicants and improve future test design.

Proctoring

Secure remote and on-campus admissions exams

Configure proctoring for admission exams

Pick the right setup for each admission sitting, from browser-based delivery with nothing to install, through to a Chrome extension or full desktop lockdown environment. Installation and monitoring are configured independently, so you can match security to each stage of your selection process.

Explore installation options

Synoptic exam security configuration in Synap with installation options for no install, browser extension, or desktop app, and monitoring options for video and audio, snapshots, or none.

Exam formats

Flexible entrance assessments for every selection stage

Build entrance exams with flexible question types

Use auto-marked and manually marked question types, including multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, essays, and audio, to assess applicants across subjects.

Question types

Synap question builder showing multiple-choice, free text, audio and video question types.

Admissions exams

Run your next admissions intake with confidence

Book a tailored demo and see how Synap supports secure entrance assessments with proctoring, scoring workflows, and candidate analytics.

Grading

Faster marking workflows for admissions teams

Automate scoring where you can, then coordinate expert review for subjective responses.

  • Automatic marking

    Reduce marking workload with auto-graded question types, including multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank.

  • Manual marking

    Assign markers, share rubrics and criteria, and review written responses in one marking dashboard.

  • Export results

    Export applicant results in CSV or PDF format for your student records and compliance processes.

Analytics

Identify top applicants with admissions reporting

See where applicants excel and where they struggle

Use tag breakdown reporting to understand strengths and gaps across topics, skills and difficulty levels.

Cohort performance breakdown by category.

Implementation

Deliver a branded admissions experience

Present a professional candidate journey with your branding, integrations, and enterprise-ready controls.

  • Branding

    Add your logo, colours and messaging so applicants recognise your institution from the first screen.

  • LMS integration

    Connect with Blackboard, Canvas, Moodle and student systems to automate enrolment and results handoffs.

  • Multilingual support

    Support a global applicant pool with multilingual portal options and content in any language.

Customer story

Modernising teacher admissions with accessible online exams

BPE moved from paper-based admissions to flexible online entrance assessments, improving accessibility for applicants and reducing admin workload.

Read the case study
BPE teacher admissions exams on Synap.

What our customers say

  • We have really, really positive feedback. It has made it a lot more accessible for our candidates, for people to be able to take it anywhere, anytime.

    Talent Manager | BPE

  • From an organisational perspective, it has saved a tonne of time so that we have been able to use that time in other ways. It is really important to be able to use our time as wisely and effectively as possible.

    Talent Manager | BPE

  • This team got every single student through the exam with a professional attitude, support and kindness. I am so lucky that I found this company. I am never going back to writing a paper-based exam.

    Program Director | University of the Free State

Interested in learning more about Synap?

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