Placements5 min read
How to run a campus placement drive, start to finish
A drive is won or lost in the week before the company arrives. A runbook for placement cells, from the first email to the offer letters.
Blog
Practical guides on campus placements, coding tests and exam integrity, for placement cells, faculty, students and the companies that hire them.
Newest
Placements5 min read
How to run a campus placement drive, start to finish
A drive is won or lost in the week before the company arrives. A runbook for placement cells, from the first email to the offer letters.
Read the article
Placements3 min read
Placement readiness: knowing who is ready before the company visits
By the time the first drive arrives, it is too late to find out who needed help. How a placement cell can see readiness early enough to act on it.
Buying guides4 min read
Choosing placement management software for your college
Spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups carry most placement seasons in India, and they carry them badly. What to look for when you replace them.
Placements3 min read
Keeping placement records that survive NAAC and NIRF
Accreditation and ranking submissions ask for years of placement evidence. The records that make them easy are kept during the season, not rebuilt after it.
For students4 min read
How to prepare for campus placements: a 12-week plan for final-year students
Three months is enough to change how you do in placements, if you spend it on the things the tests actually check. A week-by-week plan.
For students3 min read
Aptitude tests in campus placements: what is tested and how to prepare
The aptitude round removes more candidates than any other round of a mass-recruiter drive. What it checks, why it feels hard, and how to get faster.
For students3 min read
The coding round: what to expect and how to practice
Two problems, a timer and hidden test cases. What the coding round in campus placements actually checks, and how to prepare for it without memorising solutions.
For companies3 min read
Hiring freshers through campus drives: shortlisting on skills, not just CGPA
A CGPA cutoff is the fastest way to shrink an applicant pool, and not the best way to find the people who can do the job. How companies can shortlist freshers on evidence.
Academic integrity7 min read
Stopping AI cheating in coding exams
Locking the environment down is half the answer, and the smaller half. The defence that lasts is changing what the grade measures.
Buying guides7 min read
Choosing a coding assessment platform for an engineering college
An evaluation framework for institutions comparing coding assessment platforms: what to score vendors on, what to ask in demos, and how to run a pilot that actually settles the question.
Assessment design6 min read
Running a proctored coding exam for 400 students
A practical runbook for conducting an online proctored coding exam at cohort scale: what to prepare, what actually happens during the session, and how to handle the aftermath.
Assessment design5 min read
Building fair assessments
A coding test measures two things at once: what the student understands, and how much preparation they could afford. Here is how to shrink the second.
Integrity5 min read
What our proctoring records, and what it deliberately doesn't
The software collects evidence and people make the decisions. Here is what that means signal by signal, including the rules that can end a paper and the detector we switched off.
Perspective5 min read
AI in education: what we let it mark, and what we never let it decide
Assessly uses AI in three places. Here is each one, what it is trusted with, what it is not, and the feature we removed because it could not be trusted at all.
Nothing here yet. More is on the way.
From the page to the exam hall.
Everything written here runs on Assessly. See it with your own batch on a 30-minute call.