AURANGABAD: The Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University (BAMU) conducted its first online examination for first-year engineering students on Saturday.
The 40-mark examination was conducted for the subject 'Elements of Civil Engineering' of Unit I.
"More than 5,000 students appeared for the online examination that was conducted in around 20 colleges," said Sanjay Shinde, public relation officer at the university. Shinde said that the examination was conducted on experimental basis and plans are on to conduct similar online examinations for other subjects faculty as well.
The examination was conducted under the directions given by the Information and Technology department of the state government under the university examination reforms.
Governor K Sankaranarayanan had called a meeting on November 3 last year, of the vice-chancellors of all the 14 conventional state universities to discuss this and a slew of other technology-driven exam reforms recommended by an 18-member high-powered committee under state IT Secretary Rajesh Aggarwal.
A question bank containing 1,000 questions has been created from which the question paper is generated in the system. Another examination on Electronic and Computer Engineering (EECE) would also be conducted on the same lines.
The online examination has been implemented for the courses to avoid paper leaks and discrepancies found during exams as suggested during the meeting by the senate members. A mock examination had also been held to familiarise students with the paper pattern and the software.
The invigilators said that such examinations will help students be more comfortable with the format which is also used in competitive exams.
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