Mobile-Phone Jammers & CCTV during HS exams which will start on 12 February

February 11: Higher Secondary (HS) Final Examination, 2019 conducted by Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC) is going to start on 12 February, 2019. The said exam will come to an end on 14 March, 2019. This year, a total of 1,86,187 students will appear from the Arts stream, 37,455 from the Science stream and 18,291 from the Commerce stream and 910 students from the vocational courses.

To curb the menace of malpractices during examination, AHSEC has already introduced a number of exam reforms. The students will be under CCTV cameras’ surveillance from two angles. The Council has ordered all the examination centres not to turn off the CCTV cameras even after four days of the conclusion of the examination. The students will be under CCTV cameras’ surveillance from two angles. The Council has ordered all the examination centres not to turn off the CCTV cameras even after four days of the conclusion of the examination.

Apart from, it is for the 1st time that AHSEC in order to stop tech-based cheating will make use of mobile-phone jammers. The Council has decided to install jammers at the 25 “sensitive” examination centres, from where complaints of rampant cheating have been received. This will help the examination body to prevent students from cheating using mobile phones and other such electronic devices.

Kamaljyoti Gogoi, Secretary, AHSEC said that this time students leaving after one hour of the examination will have to submit the question paper along with the answer script. He also informed that candidates and invigilators will not be allowed to take their mobile phones, calculators or any other electronic device inside the examination halls.

It was also stated that Section 144 will be imposed within 50 meters of the examination centres. Experts too have been appointed to curb cyber crimes during the examinations in collaboration with the cyber intelligence committee.