Inspired by CAIE Finder

Edexcel Finder

Use Case

• It can be used to identify which year a specific question is from
• Can help make topicals/ chapterwise papers to practice
• Works both on mobile and desktop

• Like this ⤴️ any common term can be searched for and that would give a list of all questions containing that term

• Hovering upon the image gives more details. It also links to the main Question Paper and Mark Scheme file for convenience

Backend

• Like Marking Companion, Flask is the library that I used as the backbone for the project
• Using Whoosh I indexed a vast libraray of papers [January 2019 - January 2024]
  • It allowed me to quickly search the database instead of brute force searching through every single file which I previously had been doing
• I also moved away from pdf2image and moved to fitz as it is much quicker and has no extra dependencies like Poppler

Frontend

• Raw HTML and CSS has been used
• Used a mountain as the background because it made me feel I was paying homage to the evergreen Windows 7 Scenery

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• The fun in doing such projects is learning about different things in order to optimise your code, I loved learning about Whoosh and how it worked behind the scenes
• Indexing and converting pdfs to txts was also real fun

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⚠️ DISCLAIMER: It's not a finished project yet, there's potential for so much more, after my AS Exams I'll In Sha Allah look into them