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Plan to allow exam centres to download question paper

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PAYING ATTENTION: Members of Political Science Valuators Forum at a review meeting in Bangalore on Tuesday.

BANGALORE: Instead of transporting bundles of question papers to examination centres, Bangalore University is considering a proposal to allow the centres to download the question papers from the Internet minutes before the examination starts.

Bangalore University Vice-Chancellor N. Prabhu Dev told The Hindu here on Tuesday that the university was considering such a proposal to prevent leakage of question papers. “We are looking at the various aspects of such a proposal to prevent leakage of question papers like it happened at a private college in Bangalore recently,” he said.

“We can disclose the password to download the question paper about one hour before the examination starts. The examination centres should download the paper from the Internet and distribute it to the students after making copies,” he said.

However, the absence of Internet facilities, printing and photo copier machines in certain colleges could prove to be a hurdle. “We are also thinking of faxing copies of question papers to centres that do not have the infrastructure,” he said.

Earlier, Dr. Prabhu Dev, who inaugurated a symposium on “Examination Reforms – A Review”, organised by Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni Women’s College and Political Science Evaluators Forum, said Bangalore University had introduced a series of examination reforms.

The percentage of “non-processed” results, which are commonly called as “withheld” results, has come down drastically after the university introduced Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) sheets.

The percentage of non-processed results used to be high for various reasons, including delay in arrival of internal assessment marks, wrong entry of name, shortage of attendance, etc.

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