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Personalised answer sheets from the next semester Objective-type question papers planned from the next year CHENNAI: The University of Madras is going digital—from outsourcing its website and a new website for distance education to offering personalised digitally coded answer sheets from the next semester examination to considering an objective-type examination to be evaluated with an optical reader. On Wednesday, the results will be released for the first semester examinations, which used the digital encoding technology. “This helps to prevent malpractice…It will check the corruption in dummy numbering,” Vice-Chancellor S. Ramachandran told reporters on Tuesday. The university will take the system a step further in the next semester, introducing personalised answer sheets. “This will be a foolproof method. There will be no possibility of paper chasing or tampering with the dummy numbers…Each answer sheet can only go to the student it is meant for,” Dr. Ramachandran said. The university hopes that these measures will prevent recurrence of the examination paper scam of April 2006 when university insiders were found to have fostered a lucrative paper chasing cabal. In another move to prevent the opportunity for corruption or bias in evaluation, the Vice-Chancellor was considering introducing objective-type question papers for semester examinations from the next year. The computer-readable answer sheets of the type used in entrance examinations would be used. Half the marks at stake every semester came from internal evaluation, which could use the traditional essay and paragraph-type questions, Dr. Ramachandran suggested. The remaining 50 per cent which would come from the external examination could be allocated for objective-type questions which could be evaluated with optical readers. Students would have to pass separately in the internal and external sections. He said the academic council would be consulted about the proposal, which could come into effect from the next academic year. The university also decided to outsource its website within the next three months. “We have a small Computer Science department…so we want to get the best professionals to maintain it,” Dr. Ramachandran said. A separate website, which will also be outsourced, was being prepared for the distance education programme. The study material of all subjects would be made available online to registered students. Within six months, he said, students would be able to use a password to download the material at any time. The university would start implementing e-governance across its systems from April.
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