Pen-Paper To Optical Sensors: IIT Professor On Why JEE Hasn't Seen Leaks
IIT Madras Director V Kamakoti suggests that the JEE examination's success in preventing leaks can be attributed to the adoption of advanced technologies like image processing and biometric identity checks. He advocates for implementing these robust practices across other national competitive exams.
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This provides a technical perspective on how India might solve its recurring examination integrity crisis through institutional reform and technology.
There has been no leak in the JEE exams and elements from that process could be incorporated in other competitive exams to ensure transparency and a lack of leaks, IIT Madras Director V Kamakoti told NDTV today. Kamakoti has been part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's six-member exam reform task force formed after weeks of protests over the paper leak in the medical entrance exam. They carry huge expectation that they will be able to plug the holes that have compromised India's examination system for years.Holding up the engineering exam as an example, Kamakoti told NDTV's Padmaja Joshi today that it has grown manifold in terms of examinees."When I wrote a JEE in 1985, there were 5000 people who wrote it.
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