System and method to generate sets of similar assessment papers

A system for generating a second set of similar assessment papers, from a given first set of assessment papers, the system comprising a processor in communication with a memory, the memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises a plurality of modules capable of being executed by the processor to perform operations, the plurality of modules comprising:

• an identification module for identifying a plurality of meta-tagged assessment papers, of the first set of assessment papers based on a numerical representation of each assessment paper of the first set of assessment papers, wherein the numerical representation of each assessment paper is auto-derived based on a plurality of predicted metadata or predicted descriptors, or both, associated with each question of the first set of assessment papers;
• a test paper similarity module for comparing the numerical representation of each of the identified assessment papers with the numerical representations of each of the other identified assessment papers, using one or more similarity based metrics, for assigning a numerical score to each such possible pair of the identified assessment papers;
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• a threshold indicator module for clustering the identified assessment paper into the second set of similar assessment papers is based on pairs having numerical scores greater than a predetermined threshold, for generating the second set of similar assessment papers.