A word-matching filter-based search engine for past paper questions and mark schemes.
- Redesign
- Better filter system
- Add more papers
- Multiple pages(home, search, help, about)
- Monetisation
- Advertising
- My folder
- Accounts
- Mark calculator
- Paper search
qfind allows users to search thousands of past paper questions by matching keywords or applying filters.
This functionality is available at the simple client-only webpage lorcaheeney.github.io/qfind
that connects to a database of questions generated by a python backend.
Papers to be processed are stored in the URL.txt file, with different exam boards being seperated by headers and a paper consisting of a link
to both the paper and its markscheme on consecutive lines. Once the python program has read all of the papers in and filtered out previously processed papers
it used curl to grab the pdf file, converts the pdf file to html and then uses regex based searching to find the start of questions. The program also scans the first page of the paper
for important detail such as the module(M1,CH3 etc.), session(SUMMER or WINTER) and year. Once this information has been handled it writes new records into PDFS.txt.
PDFS.txt consists of records which are seperated by newlines and headers which denote the different exam boards, the fields are seperated by "@~" delimiter.
Record structure ->
EXAM_BOARD@~MODULE@~SESSION@~YEAR@~QUESTION_NUM@~PAGE_NUM@~PAPERURL@~MSURL@~KEYWORDS
e.g
WJEC@~PH4@~SUMMER@~2015@~1@~2@~https://jacktilson.net/edu/physics/pastpapers/PH4/June%202015%20QP%20-%20Unit%204%20WJEC%20Physics%20A-level.pdf@~https://jacktilson.net/edu/physics/pastpapers/PH4/June%202015%20MS%20-%20Unit%204%20WJEC%20Physics%20A-level.pdf@~A OXYGEN GAS IS HELD IN SEALED CONTAINER IEXPLAININCLEARSTEPS USINGTHEKINETICTHEORYANDNEWTONSLAWSOFMOTION HOW THE EXERTS PRESSURE ON WALLS OF IIIF BEHAVES AS AN IDEAL THEN STATE MEANING EACH TERMS I N II M III C WJEC CBAC LTD PV NMC PMT BACKGROUND PNG TURNOVER EXAMINER ONLY B VOLUME HOLDS AT PA AND TEMPERATURE RELATIVE MOLECULAR MASS CALCULATE ITHE NUMBER MOLES IITHE RMS SPEED MOLECULES PRACTICE NOT GIVE ONE REASON FOR THIS