Since everybody seems to be in BITSAT mode these days, I thought it’s time I should do something more about it than studying throughout the day. Naman suggested me to check out the BITSAT sample questions software that BITS has made available on its website. You can download the sample questions software for PCM by clicking here and PCB by clicking here. Both are condensed, 30 minute tests with only five questions from each subject. So I installed the software on my system using Wine, and just out of curiosity, checked out its folder. Turns out, they keep a Microsoft DOC file of all the questions under the folder titled images1 under the filename sampleqns_all.doc. The biology folks are out of luck here, because the DOC file included with theirs doesn’t include the biology questions (and is the same as the PCM set). In case you’re feeling lazy, then you can click here to download a PDF version of the official BITSAT 2008 Sample Paper. More interesting stuff. I started giving the exam and found that the keys Ctrl and Alt were disabled. It doesn’t really matter anyway, because Ctrl+Alt+Del can’t be overridden by JavaScript, so you could still terminate your test midway and cry foul ;). If you really want to have more fun, try pressing Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow at the centre – it flips the screen upside down (to get it back in proper orientation, press Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow). That’ll be quite fun, having the people at their centre break into sweat trying to figure out what the hell went wrong. And of course, you can help them in this situation by shouting hysterically at them. Check out their inc folder and you’ll find the code for that. Plus, more stuff – to disable right-clicking (pointless, if you ask me), and the timer. You can even see the HTML files themselves which are being used, named etest.htm, ptest.htm, mtest.htm etc. Made in Visual Studio 7.1. Which brings up a very valid question. If they’re using a JavaScript-based timer, then it does open up the possibility that someone might use JavaScript injection to, say, give himself some extra time. And what about scripts themselves? I’m quite sure that their software would be using Internet Explorer’s engine to handle page rendering, so what if someone disables scripting from there? I tried that, but it didn’t work; but quite possibly, it’s just because I suck at Windows software and there might be an option elsewhere to disable it. Maybe registry edits? Anyone out there who knows about how to do...