SPPU Exams 2021: 150 students caught cheating during online exams

SPPU is conducting the first-semester examination online for students from first to last year of all courses from April 10. Owing to the coronavirus crisis in the state, the varsity is conducting the examinations in online mode.

The Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) has informed that its examination department has caught a total of 150 students cheating while appearing for the online first-semester exams. As a follow-up action, these students have now been told to appear before the SPPU’s grievances redressal committee. It’s a message SPPU wants to send that the university is vigilant against cheating despite the exams attempted remotely via the internet.

SPPU is conducting the first-semester examination online for students from first to last year of all courses from April 10. Owing to the coronavirus crisis in the state, the varsity is conducting the examinations in online mode.

The exam is conducted of 50 marks with multiple-choice questions (MCQ) method in online mode. SPPU’s own Edutech foundation company is conducting this exam.

Students from Pune, Nashik and Ahmednagar district daily appear for the exams for over 3,700 subjects to be held throughout this examination period. From the last four days, the daily number of students appearing for the exams is over 1 lakh.

In order to conduct examinations in a fair manner, SPPU is using an online ‘proctored test’ method to conduct the examinations for its courses. Through this method, students are able to give the exams from anywhere by using smartphones, tablets, laptops or desktop computers and even from the internet to cyber cafes. SPPU is the first government university in the state to use this method for exams.

“In this method when a student logs in to give the exam through smartphone, laptop or tablet, all the minute movements of the students are captured and monitored by the system. If a student is doing cheating or found doing any suspicious thing he/she is given a warning three times. If the student continues their act then the student is disqualified from the exam.” said Mahesh Kakade, SPPU’s director of the board of examination and evaluation.

“Until now we have caught 150 students cheating through this method and they are going to appear before SPPU’s grievances redressal committee. Though our exams are conducted online, students are not at all allowed to do cheating in the exams,” he added.

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