Disastrous start to MSU’s mock exam

Disastrous start to MSU’s mock exam

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Vadodara:  02.08.2020

M S University’s first attempt to conduct online examination turned into a mockery of sorts on Saturday.

The university had developed its own exam portal for holding the exams for which the first mock test was scheduled on Saturday morning. But as thousands of students tried to access the exam portal, they received message of ‘server error’, ‘service unavailable’ among others, as the portal crashed within minutes.

MSU was the first publicly funded university of Gujarat to make such an attempt.

Ahead of the mock test, getting user id and password had also become an ordeal for students, who had kept waiting for the details till last moment. On Saturday, when they tried to access the portal, most of them could simply not login. Those who logged in face hurdles of low speed and other technical errors.

Officials said that of the nearly 4,000 students who were supposed to appear for the exams, more than 3,000 students could not login.

The university officials termed it as a cyber attack by unidentified outside ‘agencies and hackers’.

“Since Friday evening, some professional agencies and hackers were trying to damage and hack our portal. There were many technical hitches that students faced today,” said K M Chudasama, officiating registrar of MSU, adding that the university will register a FIR with cyber crime.

“ We will make the server strong and secure after which the new dates of mock test and semester-end exams will be declared. Both exams are postponed till then,” he said.

While the mock tests were scheduled on Saturday and Sunday, the semester-end exams in which over 17,000 students were to be appear, were scheduled from August 5 onwards.

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