Simulating the NET Interface

You have spent every preparation hour on the questions. None on the screen the questions will appear on.

The computer based NET runs on a program called CBNET. NUST publishes a demo of it on its admissions site, but the demo has almost no questions, so most students close it within a minute and never look back. They meet the real thing on test day, three hours and 200 questions deep.

We rebuilt the CBNET interface as closely as we could, about 90% of it, and put real NET questions inside it. The layout, the buttons, and the rules for what you can click and when all work the way they will in the exam hall. Practice here long enough and there is nothing left to learn on the day.

Try five questions Sit a full paper

Live demo

Try five questions

This is the simulator itself, not a screenshot. Pick an option, press Save, and see how the buttons behave.

Mathematics

CBNET familiarisation

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Question

The value of cosine of an angle is -0.5. What will be the value for half of that angle for sine?

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Answer

( Please select your correct option )

0.5

0.5

0.866

0.707

This demo test is provided solely for demonstration purposes to aid students and is not an OFFICIAL entry test of NUST.

Best on a laptop or desktop, because that is what you will sit the test on.

What catches people out

Five things the real test does that a normal quiz app does not. Every one of them is waiting for you in the simulator, so you can learn the habit now.

You must click SAVE on every single answer.: Selecting an option commits nothing. Students lose whole answers to this in the real test, usually in the last ten minutes when they stop checking.
You cannot flag a question until it is saved.: Review stays disabled while the answer is blank, so the standard strategy of flagging a hard question and moving on does not exist here. You have to commit an answer first.
There is no question grid.: Only Next, Prev, First and Last. If you want question 84 from question 12, you press Next seventy two times, so skipping is expensive and you plan differently.
One clock for the whole paper.: 180 minutes, counted in whole minutes remaining, with no per section timer. Nothing tells you that you have overspent on Mathematics until English is gone.
No feedback until you press FINISH.: No score, no correctness, no progress bar beyond the question counter. The interface is silent for three hours.

One more, and it is the one that pays: NET has no negative marking. A blank scores exactly the same as a wrong answer, so never leave one empty.

If you sit the paper-based test

Your test is on paper. NUST runs the computer based test in Islamabad and Quetta only, and the Karachi and Gilgit centres sit PBNET with a question booklet and an answer sheet. This simulator will not be what you see.

It still helps with pacing, because the clock, the question count and the section order are the same. What it cannot give you is practice shading an answer sheet, so book time for that separately. We would rather tell you that than oversell the thing we built.