Switch pen for mouse to take PG exams at GU

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MSc students will be first to take exams that offer flexible timings. Varsity will fix a week in which candidates can choose the day and time they will appear for the test

Yogesh Avasthi
Gujarat University is planning to abandon the traditional pen-and paper-format in favour of an online exam system for post-graduate courses. The system, to be in place by November, will ensure a transparent and efficient exam process. It will also reduce burden on examiners.
On an experimental basis, the online exam will be restricted to science stream initially. Later, it will be extended to commerce and arts courses conducted at the varsity. Vice-Chancellor Parimal Trivedi said, “MSc students will appear for the online exam first. We are preparing a question bank for the 50-mark paper. The online exam database will be uploaded on the university’s
server. The question bank will contain hundreds of questions which the software will pick at random to form a question paper for an exam candidate. The software makes sure that no two students get the same question paper. This will eliminate copying.”

Flexible timings
He added, “The system is on-demand, online (ODON). This means the varsity will decide which week to take the exam, but students have the freedom to choose the day and time they want to give their exams. Each student can choose a time that suits his/her convenience.
Trivedi said, “The exams will be taken at the university’s state-of-the-art computer laboratory where 500 students can be seated at a time.” The lab has 18 servers to provide high-speed internet connectivity of 10 Mbps. It also has a high-speed web portal to support this facility. Details of the examination will be posted on the portal. It will also be SMSed to concerned students.
Of the 18 servers, nine will be reserved for the exams. There will be a backup to prevent loss of data due to problems like power failure.

Fair evaluation
Explaining the process, Trivedi said, “Every student will be assigned a unique password. The code will unlock the question paper. There will be multiple-choice as well as essay-type questions. Once the student completes the paper, the software converts the answers into Portable Document Format (PDF).
“The software assigns the PDF to examiners who can access it by entering their passwords. Once the PDFs are checked, the software automatically generates the result.” After the week is over, an answer key will be uploaded on the website so students can verify their answers. The scores will be recorded on the server to negate chances of mischief.

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