Livestreaming of MBBS exam now, AI monitoring soon
TNN | Feb 5, 2020, 04.50 AM IST
Chennai: To put a stop to mass cheating by medical students during examinations, the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University has asked all 35 examination centres across the state to live stream the exams. A team of officials are monitoring the live streams from a control room in Guindy. Some 12,000 students are writing the exams this year.
In 2019, the university barred two self-financing colleges — Madha Medical College and Hospital and Melmaruvathur Adiparasakthi Medical College — from conducting MBBS examinations after CCTV footage showed mass copying by students with even invigilators helping them out in some cases. An inquiry committee found students exchanging notes, passing answer scripts and dictating answers at the exam hall. This year, students of Madha Medical College are writing their exam at the university campus, while students Melmaruvathur college have been given a separate examination centre. “The second and third year examinations are going on now. They are being live streamed,” said university vice-chancellor Dr Sudha Seshayyan. The colleges will have to send the complete video footage of the examinations, she said. “We will caution or warn centres from the control room if we see any malpractice. We have started live streaming from Monday,” she said.
The university, she said was in talks with companies for an artificial intelligence-driven system which can monitor examination venues in real-time.
Technology is available to provide proactive automated directions through instant alerts during exams. “We are hoping to make the process more stringent to reduce malpractices. We can debar colleges from holding exams and students too will be asked to repeat examinations or be debarred if malpractices are detected,” she said.
Students are given bar-coded answer scripts for the exams. Question papers are now sent to examination centres half an hour before the examination. To prevent leak, exam centres should downloaded the question papers using unique password and print them out minutes before they hand it over to the students.
TNN | Feb 5, 2020, 04.50 AM IST
Chennai: To put a stop to mass cheating by medical students during examinations, the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University has asked all 35 examination centres across the state to live stream the exams. A team of officials are monitoring the live streams from a control room in Guindy. Some 12,000 students are writing the exams this year.
In 2019, the university barred two self-financing colleges — Madha Medical College and Hospital and Melmaruvathur Adiparasakthi Medical College — from conducting MBBS examinations after CCTV footage showed mass copying by students with even invigilators helping them out in some cases. An inquiry committee found students exchanging notes, passing answer scripts and dictating answers at the exam hall. This year, students of Madha Medical College are writing their exam at the university campus, while students Melmaruvathur college have been given a separate examination centre. “The second and third year examinations are going on now. They are being live streamed,” said university vice-chancellor Dr Sudha Seshayyan. The colleges will have to send the complete video footage of the examinations, she said. “We will caution or warn centres from the control room if we see any malpractice. We have started live streaming from Monday,” she said.
The university, she said was in talks with companies for an artificial intelligence-driven system which can monitor examination venues in real-time.
Technology is available to provide proactive automated directions through instant alerts during exams. “We are hoping to make the process more stringent to reduce malpractices. We can debar colleges from holding exams and students too will be asked to repeat examinations or be debarred if malpractices are detected,” she said.
Students are given bar-coded answer scripts for the exams. Question papers are now sent to examination centres half an hour before the examination. To prevent leak, exam centres should downloaded the question papers using unique password and print them out minutes before they hand it over to the students.
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