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A proposal for NTA—digitise exam centres, encrypt question papers

The NTA must adopt technology to combat the problem. Develop a high-quality bank of questions and use an algorithm to create a paper using randomisation.

Each time a controversy surrounding question paper leaks or other scandals in medical entrance exams surfaces, I am reminded of the time in 2010 when I had just assumed charge as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi. Based on a tip-off and after much sleuthing, my colleagues and I unearthed more than a decade-old racket involving annual leaks in the entrance examination for the university’s medical college. I decided to entrust the responsibility of conducting subsequent examinations to one of several well-known institutions.

To my dismay, I discovered that each one of these institutions had a history of paper leaks quite akin to ours. Lest the reader gains the impression that such lapses are confined to the conduct of medical entrance examinations, let me disabuse them of such a notion. I had first encountered such malpractice........

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