For decades now, cheating in exams by students, was a
well-known feature, all over India
This process was often assisted by the exam supervisors
and overlooked by administrators of those thousands of exam centers
Following are some of the cheating methods employed by
the students :
Ø Writing
down answers on palms of hands / legs
Ø Carrying
on body, carefully concealed pieces of papers
Ø Getting
friends to throw into the exam halls, answer papers
Ø Looking
up the writing from the answer-book of students sitting next
Ø Wearing
tiny ear plugs into which answers can be broadcast
With arrival of IoT
( Internet of Things ), catching cheating students , is going to be
ever-more difficult
Ask :
How long before the following items in that exam hall,
carry RFID embedded micro-sensors, ( with electric power drawn from air ! ), which
can receive and transmit all kinds of data (text – images – voice ) , through
the walls of the halls ?
Ø Water
Coolers
Ø Mobile
phones ( already banned in exam halls )
Ø Smart
Watches
Ø Smart
Ball Pens
Ø AR-VR
augmented Eye Glasses
Ø Pendants
and other jewelry
Ø Smart
Clothes ( with button cameras )
Ø Smart
Shoes
Ø Tooth
Implants
Ø Tatoos
printed on hidden body parts
Ø Walking
Sticks / Wheel Chairs ( for challenged )
This list is only limited by your imagination
!
And applies equally, not
only to the students but also to the exam supervisors !
Not counting tables / chairs
/ fans / drawing boards and walls of the exam hall – all IoT enabled !
All capable of receiving /
broadcasting data !
Does all of these mean
that , as far as cheating in exams is concerned, things will only get worse ?
May be
But, If bad people can use
technology for bad purposes, then it also enables good people to use it for
good purposes !
For example :
TCS iON , a unit of Tata
Consultancy Services, plans to deploy this technology for eliminating
cheating !
HERE IS HOW :
Ø Launching
its Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) driven Command
Centre in Chennai, which will monitor in real time, 6000 of its examination venues, across the country
OBJECTIVE :
Ø Fair
conduct of exams with transparency of the exam operations
METHODOLOGY :
Ø Monitor the exam
process through
a set of 150 parameters
Ø Prevent, predict and
post incidents as alerts for efficient management of the
exam
Ø Track movement and
devices carried
by every candidate at any exam centre, via a live CCTV feed
Ø Predict the
readiness of the Centre based on past incidents and the current
live feed of events in the exam centre
Ø Issue alerts about
any malpractice attempts based on the learnings from the
malpractice patterns of the past
Ø Track the readiness
of all the devices being used for conducting the exam, by
leveraging TCS’s IoT framework
Ø Issue proactive
automated directions for any observations that warrant immediate
action through instant alerts against anomalies like exam interruptions. Unusual
behavior on server or candidate system and the performance of the devices being
used for the exam process
It is possible that the
administrators of Bhagath PU College ( Haveri-Karnataka ), never heard of TCS
iON innovation for preventing cheatings in exams
They ordered all students
appearing for first year science exam, “ to wear cardboard cartons on their heads “ – to prevent
sideways glance !
Cannot believe ?
Read :
Karnataka:
College students made to wear cardboard boxes at exams
Although, the news report does not spell out, I suppose
that :
Ø Students appearing at TCS examination centers,
do so on a computer screen
Ø No
two students have the same questions in their exam papers and for each student,
the exam paper is instantaneously / randomly generated on the fly, from a vast
data bank of questions of similar “ Degree of Difficulty “
Ø There
is a time limit for solving the online paper
Ø As
soon as the time gets over, the SCORE [ result ] is flashed on the screen,
along with a rejection letter or an ( provisional ) “ Appointment Letter “ –
which, the selected student must “ accept “ online and immediately
In India, hardly a week passes without millions of
students appearing in exams being conducted by schools / colleges / Institutes
/ Prof Bodies / Exam Boards etc
Then there is Railway Board conducting paper-based written
exams in thousands of exam centers, all over India, for millions of job-aspirants
Ditto with Indian Association of Bankers
And each of these is susceptible for cheating / paper-leaking
/ heartburning and injustice to bright students
Lakhs of crores of rupees and billions of man-hours and
millions of tons of papers are wasted
All of this wastage of National Resources can be saved,
if only Shri Prakash
Javadekarji, requests TCS
Ø To
share its technology platform to the entire Education Industry , for FREE
With regards,
Hemen Parekh
hcp@RecruitGuru.com
