All question papers will be sent to examination centres via web link this time around to ensure secure delivery.
In a move to hasten assessment work and declare results on time, high speed Japanese scanners will be used by Mumbai University officials to scan answer sheets which will be sent to examiners. The examiners will check the answer sheets online at their own college or at centralised assessment centres.
The scanners are capable of scanning 30,000 pages a minute. “These scanners can handle large number of answer sheets,” said Prof M Farooqui, director, Campus Computerisation Project of the University. The University has 667 colleges under its jurisdiction and close to 1.8 lakh undergraduate students appear for final year exams each year. Online assessment will also help to fasten revaluation work.
Each scanner will cost the university around Rs5 lakh. Around 56 scanners are being purchased for this purpose, added Prof Farooqui. The University has, however, not conducted any pilot test before taking this huge step.
“We may start the online process for papers which has least number of candidates. If it is successful, it will be rolled out for all papers to be conducted during the first half of 2013.”
A University teacher, who is a regular moderator, however, condemned the move, “It is ridiculous to adopt another technology while we are still struggling with barcodes on answer sheets. Lots of errors were observed in 2011 and 2012.”
All question papers will be sent to examination centres via web link this time around to ensure secure delivery.
The March, 2013 exams of University of Mumbai is supposed to be one of the most technologically savvy exams across universities in the state. The exams would also be an acid test for the varsity whose image has been tarnished after a series of question paper leaks during the first half of 2012. The MU is taking the help of universities in south India, which have already adopted the online assessment system, though the number of students is much less as compared to MU.
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