86061 Build a simple quiz site

I wish to build a clone of [login to view URL] ++++++++++++++ BACKGROUND My site is intended to provide an exact replica of the computerised test issued by the UK Government to overseas people who want to get a British Passport and become a British citizen. The site [login to view URL] is not actually the Government's test, but a replica of it - it does exactly what I want to do. The test requires that applicants to purchase, read and memorise chapters 2,3 and 4 of a Government book titled "Life In The united Kingdom".... http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0113413025/sr=1-4/qid=1155242242/ref=sr_1_4/026-8014349-5188407?ie=UTF8&s=books The test is based on information in the book. EXISTING COMPETITION [login to view URL] is an exact functional replica of the Government test and exactly what I want to build in stage one of this project. I hope to go onto develop the site into a portal for immigrants, but that is for stage 2, next year. For now, I just want a 100% clone of britishness-test.co.uk. Obviously my site will use questions written by me, and it will need to have a different graphic design (to make it look more web 2.0 - please see [login to view URL] The functionality of my site can be copied 100% from [login to view URL], but please do not just copy their code and simply say that you wrote it - it's not fair on them or me. I will check for this. IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THE PROGRAMMER ON THIS PROJECT SIGNS UP TO [login to view URL] AND TAKES SEVERAL TESTS. That will be the best way of figuring out how it works - it's the exact spec laid out for you already, but let me describe it in words to help things along.. ++++++++++++++ Registration The user is asked to register when they come to the site for the first time. Registration involves the user paying £9.99 through Paypal for one month's unlimited access to the site and the practice questions it contains. We'll call this period a "user month", during which time they can take the practice tests as many times as they like. I will supply you with all the questions you need, divided up into 12 different spreadsheets with the correct answers marked fro each question. After one user month, a user must pay £9.99 again to carry on getting access to the practice questions. If they do not want to register they may still use the sample test (my rival site has this feature here [login to view URL] ++++++++++++++ The Test + questions The test is 40 minutes long and consist of a pre-defined set of 24 questions about life in Britain, randompy generated from a wider set of questions. The user reads questions off the screen, one question at a time, and selects the right answer or answers from a series of two or more possible answers. Most of the time, the question will consist of four possible answers and one right answer, like this What sort of business is Microsoft? 1) a software firm 2) a restaurant 3) a gas station 4) an electrical store ..but the test should randomly throw in other formats of question, such as this one where the user has to tick more than one answer: Microsoft is a software company based with offices in� London - (correct) India - (correct) Mars - (incorrect) Jupiter- (incorrect) Or this question, where the user has to select from a true or false statement: 1) Microsoft is a software company? - True - False I will supply you with a carefully structured spreadsheet containing 240 questions with the correct answer marked with an "X". The website will run 10 sets of 24 questions. Each set is significant. Each one will have a defining attribute, depending on how the registered user has interacted with it,as follows 1) A set can be [started] or [unstarted] i.e. it's a started-set if the user has begun a test session with the intention of completing the set of 24 questions in the next 40 minutes. If they log off before 40 minutes has passed then that set becomes a [started-unfinished] set. When they start a new session, the [started-unfinished] set will not be presented to the user until they have finished all the other sets. The unfinished set goes to the back of the queue in the order of sets presented to the user. The user must always be shown an [unstarted] set every time they start a new session � this helps to keep them mentally alert and give the appearance of deep layers of content. 2) A set can be [passed] or [failed] , depending on how many questions the users gets right. 18 out of 24 will result in a pass. A set that has been passed is not shown to the user again until they have completed all the other sets, or when the user signs up for a new user month. +++++++++++++++++++++ User data and test scores Once the user starts to answer a set of questions a timer appears, counting backwards from 40 minutes. When the 40 minutes is over the user is not allowed to answer any more questions, and is given a score screen like this: The user can then click on a link to show them the correct answers ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TWO VERSIONS NEEDED I want to produce two versions of the site: one version asks users to pay £9.99 to practice the test, the other version can be free to use. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Backend functionality All I need at first is the ability to post new sets of questions or edit existing sets. I will also need the ability to edit any of the copy on any part of the website, but I think I can probably do that myself if I know which html file the copy is in. There is one particular feature that I want to use which the other sites do not have: when the user is shown the correct, they can click on a link next to every question that takes them to a page showing tips (text or graphics) on answering that particular question correctly. They should be able to save each page of memory tips, thus building up a collection of "My Memory Tips" to help them tackle all the questions that they got wrong and need more help with. Next year, I would like to start turning the site into more of a portal, with news, features and factsheets, classified advertising and a search function. I don't need those features in stage one, but please bear in mind that I will very likely give that work to the programmer who builds this site. It may also affect the type of system you build in stage one? That about as much as I can tell you without knowing which specific parts you need to know more about. Jasmal