Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Panjab University has rows of students giving identical answers

CHANDIGARH: The examination branch of Panjab University has found a few instances in which students sitting in an entire row have copied from one another and have identical answers. Close to three-four such instances of entire rows of under-graduate students taking the final year exam this year having identical answer sheets have been detected by the evaluators during checking which have now been forwarded to the unfair means case (UMC) committee of PU. 

"The cases are being looked into by the UMC committee and the members will decide what to do next. The committee will check to what extent has there been imitation in these answer sheets," said A K Bhandari, PU controller of examination (CoE). 

Evaluators, on condition of anonymity stated that eight to nine students in a row of final year arts students have been found to have same answers, copied word by word in the final year exam held this year. 

"Such instances where the entire row of students have similar answer sheets are rare, " said an evaluator from a local government college on condition of anonymity. 

"There was an instance in which an entire row of students of second year commerce had the same answer, sub-heads, points and graphics for a particular answer," adds another evaluator.

Jagpal Singh, a PU senator and member of UMC committee said that the evaluation has just begun for the last semester exams of under-grad classes and such cases are unusual and rare. 

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