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campusIIT Kharagpur's take on the best methods to avoid malpractices in online exams

India Today (December 7, 2020)

Here's what an IIT Kharagpur spokesperson had to say on the best methods to avoid malpractices in online exams during Covid-19.

--With exams moving online, it is important to keep measures in place to check cheating and other malpractices.

--Immediate actions such as deregistration, cancellation of paper etc. can be imposed.

--Here are a few other measures to curb online exam malpractices that IIT Kharagpur is taking.

With Covid-19 forcing exams to move online, we need to understand how we can avoid malpractices in online exams. Experience says that generally the rules are required to be framed for a purpose for possibly 5% of people who are not so disciplined and cause disturbance to the whole system. For this 5% of people, 95% of people do suffer as they need to go through a constricted process.

Setting stringent measures for curbing malpractices in an examination is no exception. Possibly a handful of students resort to some kind of unethical practices for which a host of norms are required to be framed for which a large number of students feel suffocated. (Read More)