NEW DELHI: Images of parents and friends scaling walls and clinging to windows to help Bihar students taking their Class X exams are still fresh.
These scenes might not have surprised many given the state of education in that region, but this aberration has become a national phenomenon with at least 12 major question paper leaks in as many months affecting lakhs of students across states - be it CBSE AIMPT 2015, or UPPSC or UP combined pre-medical test or the TN Board Class XII maths paper or Jamia Millia's engineering and BDS entrance test paper leaks.
Outwitted, university administrations are seeing this as a menace that must be tackled on a war footing. "It seems this is an organized crime. Universities alone cannot stem this and police will have to investigate. We have tried all checks to the best of our ability," said Talat Ahmad, the Jamia vice-chancellor.
The problem has reached Delhi, Pune or Bangalore, where the best practices were followed. No exam seems safe which has assumed industry-like proportions. Big money is at stake and months of preparation are made to breach examination systems.
Such is the faith in the capacity of fraudster to deliver. It was on show in the recent leak of BCom final year exam papers from the School of Open Learning, Delhi University. The menace continued for four days. "Despite media report on the May 27 leak, we still got the paper on WhatsApp on May 28 and thereafter. We were confident that we'd get the papers," said one student.
The money put on the table is irresistible and people are ready to stake their careers to impersonate for others and take the exams. People who've already cracked the test have been caught impersonating at entrance. Nearly a dozen cases of impersonation were reported from Jamia in 2010 and two this year.
Former CBSE chairman Ashok Ganguly says the reason for the growth of this menace is because technology isn't used effectively and the sloppiness of the exam-conducting bodies. "The bodies conducting examinations are living in the 19th century, but those behind this mischief are using 21st century technology. Those behind the recent AIPMT 2015 leaks used blue-tooth and other communication devices. This speaks a lot about how we are being outwitted."
The computer-based CAT for admission to the IIMs remains one of the most secure tests. Barring some technical glitches during its switch over from pen-paper mode to computers, it remains one of most technically-robust systems.
Rohit Kapoor, convener of CAT 2013 says: "We take a lot of measure which we don't reveal to the public. It's all about systems and process at various levels and there are checks right from preparation of the question papers to creating the test-centres. We've adopted the best global practices."
These scenes might not have surprised many given the state of education in that region, but this aberration has become a national phenomenon with at least 12 major question paper leaks in as many months affecting lakhs of students across states - be it CBSE AIMPT 2015, or UPPSC or UP combined pre-medical test or the TN Board Class XII maths paper or Jamia Millia's engineering and BDS entrance test paper leaks.
Outwitted, university administrations are seeing this as a menace that must be tackled on a war footing. "It seems this is an organized crime. Universities alone cannot stem this and police will have to investigate. We have tried all checks to the best of our ability," said Talat Ahmad, the Jamia vice-chancellor.
The problem has reached Delhi, Pune or Bangalore, where the best practices were followed. No exam seems safe which has assumed industry-like proportions. Big money is at stake and months of preparation are made to breach examination systems.
Such is the faith in the capacity of fraudster to deliver. It was on show in the recent leak of BCom final year exam papers from the School of Open Learning, Delhi University. The menace continued for four days. "Despite media report on the May 27 leak, we still got the paper on WhatsApp on May 28 and thereafter. We were confident that we'd get the papers," said one student.
The money put on the table is irresistible and people are ready to stake their careers to impersonate for others and take the exams. People who've already cracked the test have been caught impersonating at entrance. Nearly a dozen cases of impersonation were reported from Jamia in 2010 and two this year.
Former CBSE chairman Ashok Ganguly says the reason for the growth of this menace is because technology isn't used effectively and the sloppiness of the exam-conducting bodies. "The bodies conducting examinations are living in the 19th century, but those behind this mischief are using 21st century technology. Those behind the recent AIPMT 2015 leaks used blue-tooth and other communication devices. This speaks a lot about how we are being outwitted."
The computer-based CAT for admission to the IIMs remains one of the most secure tests. Barring some technical glitches during its switch over from pen-paper mode to computers, it remains one of most technically-robust systems.
Rohit Kapoor, convener of CAT 2013 says: "We take a lot of measure which we don't reveal to the public. It's all about systems and process at various levels and there are checks right from preparation of the question papers to creating the test-centres. We've adopted the best global practices."
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