Extract text from Test and timestamp files (TST)
To convert TST Test files to another format, you need ExamView or other Data software.
To convert other file formats to the "Assessment Data File" file type, you need software like ExamView or a similar tool.
The .TST file is primarily an educational assessment file used by software like ExamView Test Generator, FastTest, and Schoolhouse Technologies to store quizzes, exams, and test bank questions. In enterprise IT, .TST files are also used as RFC 3161 Timestamp Tokens for cryptographic digital certificates, or to store proprietary cable testing results generated by Fluke Networks analyzers.
The main disadvantage of the .TST format is severe vendor lock-in and deep fragmentation. An educational .TST file requires specific, often expensive, licensed desktop software to open, edit, or print. It is a closed, proprietary format that cannot be read natively by web browsers, DOCX editors, or learning management systems (LMS) like Canvas or Blackboard without specialized export steps. Users desperately need to convert .TST to PDF or TXT to share study guides with students or print hard copies, but standard online converters fail entirely. They cannot parse the proprietary binary headers, hidden ZIP compressions, or custom XML structures.
Because this file format is highly software-dependent, often only the original software can properly read or export the test data. However, convert.guru provides a pragmatic workaround. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. Our deep analysis inspects the file to see if it utilizes an underlying supported format - such as embedded UTF-8, UTF-16 (LE), or a ZIP archive structure - so you can extract raw text and questions even without the original application.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TST file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted TXT, BNK, ZIP, TSX, PDF, BM2, BIN, G64X, P7S, TSF, XML, CSV and EXE files.
If you want to convert TST file to PDF, CSV, JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP, RB or GO, you can use ExamView or similar software from the "Test and Quiz Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to TST, try ExamView or another comparable tool in the "Test and Quiz Data Storage" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our TST converter.