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Entrance examination papers leaked in a leading university of the country reports The Hindu

NEW DELHI

DU entrance exam leaked?

NEW DELHI: Describing it as a highly "unusual'' case, Delhi University on Wednesday said a high-power independent agency is conducting an enquiry into complaints of malpractice and foul play in the recently announced results of the Combined Entrance Examination.

In a official statement, the University admitted that it had received a complaint "about alleged malpractice indulged in by a few candidates'' in the CEE - 2005 Examination, but added that the process of admission would continue as scheduled despite the enquiry.

First brought to the notice of the University by a Electronics professor who detected the fact that nearly 27 students had not just got the similar ranks but also scores in three subjects, University officials said the decision to hand over the case to an external agency was taken keeping in mind the enormity of the situation.

"When the matter first came to light we knew it was not normal, as it is highly unlikely that so many students get the same marks. Since it seemed to be a very heinous kind of crime we thought it would be better to hand it over to an external agency. The crime seems to have been of cyber nature and there are possibilities that coaching institutes were involved,'' said a senior University official.

While five students were ranked fifth with the same total and the same marks in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, three students were ranked 25th in the CEE with the students yet again getting the same marks in the three subjects. While two more subjects were in a similar situation in rank 36, there were 11 students who were ranked 56 and again have the same marks in the three subjects. Interestingly none of these students have fared well in the other entrance tests such as All India Engineering Entrance Examination or the Indraprastha University Entrance Test, confirming the suspicion of the University authorities.

The Combined Entrance Examination was conducted in May for admission to engineering courses in the Delhi College of Engineering and the Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology.

With the incident once again putting a question mark over the credibility of competitive examinations, the University community has come out in protest against the irregularity detected in the examination and demanded a fair and independent enquiry.

http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/07/stories/2005070719860300.htm

University reports examination malpractice to committee

Karnataka

University refers cases of exam malpractice to committee

BANGALORE: Bangalore University has issued show-cause notices to seven B.Ed. colleges where large-scale malpractice was detected during this year's final examination.

Responding to questions about the malpractice cases, at the university Academic Council meeting here on Friday, the Vice-Chancellor, M.S. Thimmappa, said they have been referred to a committee, and appropriate action will be taken against the colleges.

A question raised by A. Ajit Prasad, member of the Bangalore University Syndicate, about mass copying caused a furore. He said there were malpractices in over 60 B.Ed. colleges and alleged that members of inspection squads were threatened at a college in Chintamani.

Bangalore University plans to revive the master's degree course in Rural Development and Management which was discontinued six years ago.

The course had been withdrawn following protests by students in the Applied Economics Department, who felt that their syllabus and that of the rural development course were the same. Dr. Thimmappa said the syllabi are different. The course may be introduced this academic year if the syllabus designed by an expert panel is approved, he added.

The university will constitute the Kempe Gowda Research Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike will allocate Rs. 10 lakh for the centre annually.

The suggestion to decentralise evaluation for the coming examinations will be considered, Dr. Thimmappa said.

He said the philosophy course will be scrapped as there are hardly any takers. Considering the lucrative jobs offered by non-governmental organisations, the university is considering including diploma and certificate courses in women's studies, he added.

http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/19/stories/2005061913120500.htm

Entrance exam put off amid fear of paper leak

Delay In CBSE, ICSE Results: CET results put off

VTU paper leaks, exam postponed

VTU paper leaks, exam postponed

For seventh semester mechanical engineering students affiliated to Vivesvaraya Technological University (VTU), this particular examination got over even before it started.

Scores of students from across who had come prepared for the “Heat and Mass Transfer” paper on Thursday afternoon were sent back home from the examination hall.

Reason: Question paper leak. It all began at around 1.15 pm, with VTU headquarters in Belgaum received a fax containing some hand written questions. On verifying, it was found that the questions matched with that in the original, prompting VTU to cancel the paper.

VTU Registrar M S Shivakumar told Deccan Herald that the fax had been sent from Davangere. “Our officials have already rushed there. A high-level committee has been constituted to probe into the leak,” he said.

The examination has been rescheduled and will be held on January 11 betwee 2 pm and 5 pm, Prof Shivakumar said.

Meanwhile, in some colleges, the answerscripts had been distributed among the students.

"As we were anxiously waiting for the question paper, we were told that the examination had been postponed and the new dates would be announced soon. We were asked to give back the empty answerscripts,” a student, requesting anonymity, said.

According to students, “Heat and Mass Transfer” is the toughest among all the paper in seventh semester mechanical engineering.

http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Jan42008/scroll2008010444797.asp?

Delay in publishing results puts students in a fix

Tamil Nadu

Delay in publishing results puts students in a fix

SALEM: Over 6,000 students from other States, who appeared for the examinations for M.Phil course conducted through the Periyar Institute of Distance Education (PRIDE) of Periyar University, are in a fix as the university is inordinately delaying the publication of results.

Poor administration in the examination and evaluation process in the institute came to light when about 100 students from Karnataka staged a demonstration on the university premises on Wednesday

They claimed that they hoped that a M. Phil qualification would enhance their prospects of getting government employment as lecturers. The Karnataka Public Service Commission invited application for the post of lecturers and the deadline for submitting applications was January 31.

The students said that the government extended the last date to February 20 following requests. As the university was delaying the publication of results, many of them were worried that they would not be able to submit the applications. Nearly 1,000 students from Karnataka appeared for the M.Phil examinations. The university conducted the examinations in November/December 2007, they said.

The university had admitted a staggering 35,000 students in the M.Phil programme under distance education mode in 2006-07, as the government ordered the universities to stop offering M.Phil in distance mode from the 2007-08. The university was not able to handle the large number of students as it had limited resources, sources claimed.

University Vice-Chancellor M. Thangaraju attributed the delay in publishing results to the problems in transporting the M.Phil dissertations from the study centres. â€œWe are not able to get evaluators for some of the subjects, which is also a reason for the delay. We, however, have promised the students to publish the results within February 15,â€ he said.

The university published the results for M.Phil examinations conducted for students in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry recently.

http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/09/stories/2008020950320300.htm

ANOTHER PAPER LEAK AT VTU

3 cases of malpractice detected in FY B Com exam

3 cases of malpractice detected in FY B Com exam

VADODARA, May 4: Three cases of malpractice were detected during the first day of the FY B Com examinations of the M S University on Monday. About 350 students appeared for the examination at the Hill Memorial School in Fatehgunj.

Earlier, the examinations were held in the Polytechnic campus but the seating arrangements have been changed considering the ongoing semester exams at the institute.

One of the students, Nidhi Shukla, who answered her paper at the school said, ``Writing an exam from anywhere outside the campus is difficult because we have become accustomed to attending classes in the university. This school is unfamiliar.''

For Bijal Bhatt answering the paper from outside the campus was like being discriminated against. She said that either all the students should have been asked to appear from the same centre or the authorities should have taken steps to accommodate all students in the university.

Another student Kewal Shah opined that the authorities should have either allowed students to sit in the university or allowed the students to have a look at the centre before the examinations.

Meanwhile, General Secretary of the student's Union, Prakash Verma alleged that Engineering students, who were appearing for their examinations, were not provided with adequate facilities including drinking water.

Verma claimed that 28 students were given roll numbers just 15 minutes before the examinations began.

Dean of the Commerce faculty B S Patel admitted that change in the exam arrangement had caused inconvenience to students, but maintained that examinations were going on in other faculties and there was no way that all the students could be accommodated in the faculty.

Patel said that the Polytechnic authorities could have made arrangements for all the first year students, but then it would have disturbed the exam schedule of the students.

http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19980505/12551124.html

Counselling for admission to MBA course put off to July 18

Counselling for admission to MBA course put off to July 18

Date
2005-07-12

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ABVP activists hold protest in Bangalore against delay in exam results

CROWD DISPERSAL: The Vice-Chancellor of Visvesvaraya Technological University, K. Balaveera Reddy, asking ABVP activists to disperse when they were holding a demonstration in front of the BMS College of Engineering in Bangalore on Monday protesting a gainst the delay in the announcement of results by Bangalore University. Photo: K. Murali Kumar

BELGAUM: The counselling for admission to MBA course, which was scheduled to begin on Monday, has been postponed to July 18 due to non-availability of qualifying examination marks in time from some universities. The time to receive the attested marks cards of the qualifying examination of the candidates at the PGCET Cell, Belgaum, has been extended till July 14.

Thus, the provisional rank list of MBA and MCA declared on July 6 has been withdrawn. The final rank list will be declared on July16. The counselling schedule will be announced for MBA and MCA along with the declaration of final rank list. For details, visit www.vtu.ac.in, says a release by M.S. Shivakumar, Registrar, Visvesvaraya Technological University.

Our Bangalore Staff Reporter writes:

Activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) staged a protest in front of the BMS College of Engineering here against the delay in announcement of results of BA and B.Com final year examinations by Bangalore University.

The students said they could not appear for the PGCET counselling for admission to MBA and MCA courses because of the delayed results. The protest was held while the Minister for Higher Education, D. Manjunath, was launching the PGCET counselling through videoconference. Next years CET counselling for undergraduate courses will also be online, the Minister announced. The videoconferencing is being held simultaneously at five places across the State. The centres are Poojya Doddappa Appa College of Engineering in Gulbarga; Bapuji Institute of Technology and Engineering, Davangere; St. Josephs Engineering College, Mangalore, and Vivsvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, besides BMS College here.

The online counselling is scheduled to go on till July 19. Candidates with ranks 1 to 334 can attend counselling, according to the revised schedule.

The VTU awarded prizes to Iqbal Hussain Khan (Mysore), Shyam Murali R., and Deepak S. of Belgaum, the first three rank-holders.

Mr. Manjunath said he was happy to find a large number of candidates from outside the State coming to Bangalore, an evidence of the high academic standards in Karnataka.

http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/12/stories/2005071212430400.htm

PGCET: students' plea rejected

Karnataka

PGCET: students' plea rejected

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday refused to stay a single judge order rejecting petitions by several postgraduate medical students whose rankings were annulled by the State Government following reports of alleged malpractices in the Postgraduate Common Entrance Test (PGCET) 2006.

A single judge, in an interim order on April 25, rejected the contention of the postgraduate students and said they were not entitled to any interim order of relief seeking to restrain the State Government from taking any further action pursuant to the show-cause notice of April 16, 2006. Some of the petitioners had assailed the Government Order of March 13 and the constitution of the committee.

The petitioners, all postgraduate students who had appeared for the PGCET 2006, said the constitution of the committee was without jurisdiction, as the Government had no power under the Karnataka Conduct of Entrance Test for Admission to Postgraduate Medical and Dental seats in Government Colleges Act.

They said the Government should communicate the inspection report of any committee to the university Syndicate. This was not done. Moreover, the committee had come up with a report in which it had indicted 21 students of malpractice. However, the Government had decided to proceed against 16 students.

They said if the interim prayers were not granted, they would suffer as the counselling for postgraduate seats was being held in the last week of April.

The single judge had rejected the plea for interim prayer. He said: "The malpractice had taken place at the postgraduate level, on completion of which doctors will become specialists and will deal with life and death of human beings". He said if such things were allowed to persist, the faith and confidence of the public in the system and doctors would be lost and capable students would lose their merit.

Appeal

Several students appealed against the single judge order. When the matter came up on Thursday before a vacation Division Bench, it had to be referred to a Special Bench. They sought an interim stay of the single judge order. A Special Bench comprising Justice N.S. Veerabhadraiah and Justice N. Kumar was constituted and the matter was referred to it in the afternoon.

The appellants contended that they had not been given an opportunity to reply to the showcause notice and that it was the Syndicate of RGUHS that should have initiated action and not the State Government. They said the single judge had failed to appreciate these facts. The Bench refused to grant any interim relief as sought for, and said prima facie it appeared that there were malpractices in the examination. The Bench observed that it could pass orders only after hearing the other parties, the Government and RGUHS.

The Bench adjourned the case till May 2 and ordered issue of notices to the respondents, the State, RGUHS and the inquiry committee.

Interlocutory application

A vacation judge of the Karnataka High Court posted before a Division Bench an interlocutory application (IA) by the State Government seeking to vacate an interim order of stay on the show-cause notices issued to three postgraduate medical students.

The vacation judge in an ex parte order had stayed the show-cause notice to Nitesh R. Desai, Anand Haliyal and Neha Bansal, by the State Government.

The State Government had issued notices to several students after a committee appointed by it had found malpractices during the conduct of the PGCET 2006. While one judge had upheld the State action on Tuesday, another judge had on the same day granted an interim stay to three students on a similar matter.

In its IA, the State said the three students were challenging the show-cause notice of April 6, 2004 wherein it had asked why action should not be taken against them. It said a detailed statement of objections filed in another case had been taken note of and the judge had rejected the prayer of the students.

It said the inquiry committee had found that 16 students were involved in the malpractices in the PGCET and this was done with the connivance of some of the officials of RGUHS, which conducted the examination.

The vacation judge, however, posted the matter before the Division Bench.

http://www.thehindu.com/2006/04/28/stories/2006042814760500.htm

PU examination begins, 55 cases of malpractice registered

Karnataka

PU examination begins, 55 cases of malpractice registered

Bangalore: As many as 55 cases of malpractice were recorded on the first day of the pre-university examination on Friday, Pre-University Education Director Gonal Bheemappa said.

He said 20 cases were registered in Bijapur district, eight in Gulbarga district, seven in Bidar district, four in Kolar district, three each in Bagalkot, Tumkur and Gadag districts, two each in Koppal and Hassan districts, and one each in Chitradurga and Chikmagalur districts and Bangalore South taluk.

`Stray incidents'

He said a few students of Marimallappa College in Mysore were not allowed to write the examination as they had attendance shortage.

"Except for a few such stray incidents, the examination was conducted smoothly all over the State," he said.

Mr. Bheemappa said all students of Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain College, V.V. Puram, who were denied hall tickets by the management of the college because of shortage of attendance, received these on Thursday.

College Principal B.T. Venkatesh said the examination was conducted smoothly at the college. "All students appeared for the examination, except two or three, who were probably not prepared," he added.

Seshadripural College Principal Radhakrishna said the Pre-university (PU) Board has provided two squads for the college. Police personnel have been stationed outside the college as a precautionary measure. "There have been no problems. All students in the science stream appeared for the examination today," he said.

According to information available, over four lakh students registered for the pre-university examination this year. The PU Board has set up 679 centres in the State.

As many as 1,09,434 students have registered their names to appear for the science examination.

Sources said 63 squads inspected centres. Centres classified as "sensitive" had additional squads.

http://www.hindu.com/2006/03/25/stories/2006032511390500.htm

VTU examination system questioned

Karnataka

VTU examination system questioned

Chitradurga: The alleged leaking of engineering question papers in Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), followed by the postponement of examinations, has given rise to questions over the efficacy of the examination system of VTU.

Following reports of the leaking of papers, the university, on Thursday, rescheduled the exam for another day. But with reports of leaking of another paper on Friday, VTU was compelled to cancel the examination all together.

While VTU maintains that stringent norms are being followed to minimise the risk of leakage, a large number of students feel that the norms are still not adequate to contain this unhealthy practice.

Usual practice

Senior students who are sitting for examinations told The Hindu that in most cases, the paper is leaked from the colleges. A final year student of the electronics branch of a reputed college said that since around 140 colleges come under the umbrella of VTU, a paper can be leaked from any one college. Leaking of the paper from the printing press is also possible. â€œTeachers who prepare question papers might give hints to their students about probable questions, he said.

He added that though some miscreants, to make quick money, spread false questions papers, most of the time that does not work as students give payment for question papers only after writing the examination and comparing both question papers. â€œStudents who are regularly involved in such activities can easily determine the fake and genuine question paper,â€ he said. The cost of question papers can vary from Rs. 3,000 to Rs. 20,000, depending on the subject, he said.

Authorities at VTU admit that it is very difficult to pinpoint from which college the paper gets leaked. However, they denied that papers get leaked from the printing press. â€œIt is simply not possible, because the internal norms are so tight that no single paper can be leaked from the press,â€ said one authority.

College authorities said that the sealed sets of papers they receive from the university are kept under tight security and are opened just before the examination in the presence of university representatives.

Deemed universities

While this is the situation at VTU, the deemed universities like Amrita Institute of Technology, also believes that it is impossible to prevent paper leakage. Yet, with strict norms it could be controlled. â€œSo far, no such instances have been reported in our university, owing to stringent internal norms,â€ said an authority to The Hindu over phone.

He said unlike VTU, the checks and balances in the deemed university is easier as its does not have several branches.

http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/06/stories/2008010657550400.htm

WBJEE 2008 Postponed Due To Paper Leak!!

WBJEE 2008 Postponed Due To Paper Leak!!

The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE 2008) for admission to undergraduate courses in Engineering/Technology/ Medical/Dental /Veterinary and Pharmacy in Universities/Colleges in West Bengal and B. Arch Course in Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur and Jadavpur University scheduled to be held today (April 20, 2008) has been postponed by the WBJEE board after the physics, chemistry and biology papers were leaked.

The next date for the exam will be decided when the board meets next week with higher education minister Sudarshan Roychaudhuri and the higher education secretary in attendance.

Two persons, Arun Chowdhury and Mihir Dandapatt, were arrested on Saturday in West Midnapore's Ghatal, where the three papers were being sold for Rs 2.5 lacs.

The arrests came hours after the police received a call. The caller gave the police a cellphone number and said they would know abo-ut JEE papers being leaked after tracing the user of the mobile.

The police have informed JEE chairman Siddhartha Dutta and senior higher education officials about the sale of the papers. "The papers recovered from Ghatal were brought to the board's Salt Lake office for verification on Saturday morning," said a senior higher education department official.

After a thorough check, the duplicate papers were found to be identical to the original ones, barring figures and diagrams.

"Figures and diagrams were missing. However, the rest of the questions were the same as those in the original papers. We immediately decided to defer WBJEE 2008," said the official.

The duplicate question papers were on physics, chemistry and biology. Significantly, mathematics was not among the papers recovered. "This is a clear indication that medical exam seats were the target," explained the official.

http://www.entranceexamindia.com/2008/04/wbjee-2008-postponed-due-to-paper-leak.html