Mumbai: Even when more departments in the IIT-Bombay gave their nodding for the semester-end examination to be carried out in hybrid mode (students on campus will take an offline exam under the physical vigilance of the teacher and those at home will provide digitally screened examinations), Students on campus have raised their concerns because they do not have a leveling field.
An article in their campus magazine, insight, said that the professors made their best efforts, but there was no online inspection system that had proven to be fully anti-cheat and which gave tests from home is an advantage.
The final semester exam is scheduled to start from Monday.
In their article, the students appointed that the relative assessment system had a pit student against student margins and merely from some decimal points could cause the value down ‘.
The students stated that it was a fact that various levels of fraud always occur.
‘With high weight resting on the final semester exam, the results of this exam often determine the value.
In this context, the need for the level of playing further further, ‘they wrote.
‘The advantages of students who provide an online exam is not a secret and the fact that making students write exams in different conditions, with conditions that have a direct impact on the exam results will lead to profit imbalances,’ the article is stated.
A professor said that the idea of ​​hybrid mode floated before the mid-semester exam was suspected that students on campus could collaborate to copy.
“In-people tests are implemented with full Covid-related precautions including distance and good ventilation.
Even though we agree that no system is 100% very easy, but we try to minimize fraud in the online exam,” said the professor.
He added that while students did get better values ​​on average in the online semester last year compared to the previous semester, which could not be associated with copying.
Grading is normalized next, he added.
Professor S Sudarshan, Deputy Director (Academic and Infrastructure), said that cheating cases were not tolerated at the Institute.
“Our faculty members make all efforts to prevent examinative online malpractice tests, use prooctoring videos.
Some students have actually been caught, and strict punishment has been given to ensure that it acts as a deterrent,” he said.
Prevent First Year students, his party expects the majority of students to return on campus in the next semester, although returning to campus will still voluntarily, based on current government guidelines.