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  • Eamcet may go IIT way with jumbled question paper system.

    HYDERABAD: Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) authorities have decided to go the IIT, IIM way this Eamcet to prevent any examination fraud. In consultation with communication and intelligence wings of the police department, the university authorities have decided to introduce a jumbled question paper system where question numbers in each of the sets (A/B/C/D) will not match with one another.

    Police officials revealed that students who tried to cheat in the medical examination of Eamcet-2010 used bluetooth-enabled devices to do so as question numbers were the same in all the four sets of papers.

    To prevent any such malpractice, questions in each of the sets will be jumbled. Also, the four optional answers for each of the questions will be in different order in each set, thereby making it virtually impossible for students to copy from one another.

    In Eamcet-2011 to be held in May this year, like the IIT and IIM entrance test question papers, the serial numbers in each of the set will not match. Even students in the same examination hall will not be allowed to sit in ascending order of their hall ticket numbers this year. The seats will be allotted randomly.

    Making the process even more fool-proof, authorities are planning to place cellphone signal jammers at some of the problematic centres.

    “Several new measures introduced last year to reduce errors will be continued even this year also. This would include a fresh question bank and rechecking the questions several times to prevent errors before sending for printing,” said D N Reddy, vice-chancellor, JNTU and chairman, Eamcet committee. He said that the first meeting of the committee to decide on the notification dates of Eamcet will be held on January 29.

    Source : TOI

  • Students’ Eamcet ranks to decide BE college

    HYDERABAD: Engineering colleges in the state will now be graded on the basis of the Eamcet ranks of their students. According to the three-member high power committee which is in charge of the grading, the college which took in students with the highest cut off ranks in Eamcet will be given the first rank. The logic behind the move is that the college that attracts the best students could be giving quality instruction and so it should be ranked at the top.

    But the move has not gone down well with the college managements that have come up with petitions against the grading. On Tuesday morning, engineering college associations submitted a petition to the higher level committee asking it to stop the grading process as it would make admissions impossible in colleges which have come up recently.

    The colleges said that grading should be introduced only after they are given enough time to better their facilities. “None of the colleges in the state fulfil all the criteria prescribed by the All India Council for Technical Education ( AICTE) and hence there is no point in ranking all 262 colleges,” said KVK Rao, a management representative of St Mary’s Group of Institutions.

    Meanwhile, concluding a meeting with managements, educationists and industry insiders on Tuesday, the members of the high level committee said that as per the instructions of minister for higher education, Damodar Raja Narasimha, there was no move to abandon the grading process.

    “The 10 measures of grading have already been decided and colleges will be ranked by mid-February,” said D N Reddy, member of the high power committee.

    Source : TOI

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