Timer control in quiz

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I have created a quiz application. The only issue left is how and where to employ the timing mechanism. When the test is started the timer should start running and not be affected by postbacks happening. Once the timer runs out the momentarily answered questions should be submitted.

How can I implement this?

Please guide me!

Posted 15-Mar-13 2:09am

Ramkumar K

Updated 15-Mar-13 2:52am

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

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Richard MacCutchan 15-Mar-13 8:11am

DON'T SHOUT!

ZurdoDev 15-Mar-13 8:13am

Please remove the CAPS.

ZurdoDev 15-Mar-13 8:13am

Postback should not affect the timer? Then I think you need to use ajax and not do postbacks.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Mar-13 10:12am

Or use session state variable; session state can store intermediate time between postbacks...
—SA

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AmeyKelkar · Answer 1 · 2013-03-15T05:30:00

On the button click of start quiz the timer should be started. If you have a master page, implement the timer there. So it will not be affected by any post back event in the pages.
Once the timer has completed, an End_Quiz() method should be called at the timer's completed event. This method will consists of all the mechanisms to submit answers, check the correct ones and calculate score.