BIT-Sindri will be conducting their midterm exams online from june 23. The syllabus has already been completed via online classes, along with registration formalities.

The online examination platform is e-proctored, i.e. it keeps a watch on what the examinee is doing during the exam. It is based on artificial intelligence and detects any movement away from the screen, or copying or google searching by the students.

BIT-Sindri Director, Dharmendra Kumar Singh said, “Our’s is the only institution in the country which has taken such an initiative in order to ensure continuous evaluation of academic progress, and avoid any delay in sessions, issuance of results, and completion of courses on time, safeguarding the career prospects of students.”

“We will be starting the 6th and 8th semester exams on Tuesday, and launch the 2nd and 4th semester exams from June 25”,” Singh. A total of 3136 students will appear for the online exams from home, as the institute hostel was vacated on March 17, ahead of lockdown.

Vijay Pandey, professor in charge, examination of BIT-Sindri said, “We have completed midterm exams for about 100 students of semesters I and 3, who had taken admissions through lateral entry ( engineering diploma students getting direct admission in 2nd year of B Tech course), which began on June 15. This was done to test the online examination system, which will now be deployed to test about 800 students in each semester.”

The semester 6 and 8 examinations beginning tomorrow will be completed on June 29, while the semester 2 and four exams beginning June 25 will conclude on June 30. Results will be declared in the first week of July.

“We have been conducting online classes for our students since the hostels were vacated and academic activities suspended on March 17, using an analytics-based platform. The plan is to continue online teaching on a limited scale, in light of AICTE instructions to cover around 25% of the syllabus through online classes, even during the normal days.

Professor in Charge, educational technology, Arvind Kumar said, “as the software is artificial intelligence based, any attempt by the examinee to minimize the screen or to move away from the screen to seek answers through mobile phone or notes or books will be detected and counted as fraud, warning her/him. The paper, then, will get auto-submitted, barring the examinee to further write the paper. All questions will have multiple choices, so evaluation will not take much time.”