Move in place after students were caught cheating using state-of-the-art technology
For the first time ever, mobile phone jammers will be set up at venues of the MBBS and BDS exams being held by the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS). Sources said as the students were outsmarting every single move by the university in conducting foolproof exams, they had no option but to go in for the jammers, making RGUHS the first university to do so.
Confirming this to Bangalore Mirror, RGUHS registrar (evaluation) Dr S Sachidanand said, "The MBBS and BDS exams are scheduled to begin from June 30. We will be procuring the jammers on a rental basis. Each exam centre may have one to three jammers based on the number of students taking the exam." The jammers will be helpful in controlling high-tech cheating that has plagued the university for the last few years. As this will be the first major undergraduate exam to use jammers, academic circles are keeping a close eye on the move. Around 12,000 medical students and 7,000 dental students will be writing the exam this month-end.
In June-July 2013 exams, two medical students (a second-year student from Kalburgi and a third-year from Vijayapura) spent Rs 25,000 each on a vest that helped them cheat. They also invested in pens that scanned the text in the question papers.
These were converted into MMSes that was sent to a person outside, who in turn responded with answers over phone. In January 2013, a student was caught for wearing a custom-made shirt fitted with lapel mike that helped exchange information with a respondent in Hyderabad. Sachidanand said that the only way to curb such practices was by installing jammers. He also added that the university was going for 10 to 12 digital evaluation centres across the state for the sake of speedy marking.
RGUHS seems to have taken a cue from Tamil Nadu-based Dr MGR University. A note from the MGR University in its website said that during the February 2012 (final MBBS Part-II theory) examinations held at the one of the medical colleges in Chennai, some students were caught cheating by using Bluetooth earphones and microphones stitched inside their collars connected to the cellphones concealed inside their clothes. Hence, the university had directed its affiliated colleges to have mobile phone jammers fixed at both ends of the examination halls. In fact, the university had gone a step ahead by asking students to be scanned with metal detectors before entering the examination hall.
For the first time ever, mobile phone jammers will be set up at venues of the MBBS and BDS exams being held by the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS). Sources said as the students were outsmarting every single move by the university in conducting foolproof exams, they had no option but to go in for the jammers, making RGUHS the first university to do so.
Confirming this to Bangalore Mirror, RGUHS registrar (evaluation) Dr S Sachidanand said, "The MBBS and BDS exams are scheduled to begin from June 30. We will be procuring the jammers on a rental basis. Each exam centre may have one to three jammers based on the number of students taking the exam." The jammers will be helpful in controlling high-tech cheating that has plagued the university for the last few years. As this will be the first major undergraduate exam to use jammers, academic circles are keeping a close eye on the move. Around 12,000 medical students and 7,000 dental students will be writing the exam this month-end.
In June-July 2013 exams, two medical students (a second-year student from Kalburgi and a third-year from Vijayapura) spent Rs 25,000 each on a vest that helped them cheat. They also invested in pens that scanned the text in the question papers.
These were converted into MMSes that was sent to a person outside, who in turn responded with answers over phone. In January 2013, a student was caught for wearing a custom-made shirt fitted with lapel mike that helped exchange information with a respondent in Hyderabad. Sachidanand said that the only way to curb such practices was by installing jammers. He also added that the university was going for 10 to 12 digital evaluation centres across the state for the sake of speedy marking.
RGUHS seems to have taken a cue from Tamil Nadu-based Dr MGR University. A note from the MGR University in its website said that during the February 2012 (final MBBS Part-II theory) examinations held at the one of the medical colleges in Chennai, some students were caught cheating by using Bluetooth earphones and microphones stitched inside their collars connected to the cellphones concealed inside their clothes. Hence, the university had directed its affiliated colleges to have mobile phone jammers fixed at both ends of the examination halls. In fact, the university had gone a step ahead by asking students to be scanned with metal detectors before entering the examination hall.
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