HYDERABAD: Technology comes with its own limitations and deficiencies and some students of the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) are exploiting these shortcomings to crack into the examination portals and steal the question bank.
The hacked questions are shared with other students using popular networking sites like Orkut or web groups like Yahoo and Gmail.
These question banks pertain to the internals conducted online by the University carrying 20 marks each for every subject in every semester. Majority of students in the cities who are part of these groups are able to download the question bank consisting of 180 questions.
A third year engineering student agreed that there are some bright students who crack the examination portal. The hackers don’t even allow their friends to toil studying the questions and searching for answers.
A software available with them is embedded to the question bank and it searches the right answers and highlights them in bold for easy identification. Some of them are so advanced that they insert a pen drive, loaded with the software, in the examination hall and it answers the questions.
Interestingly, the JNTU introduced online examination system when it found that some colleges were resorting to leakage of question papers for their students’ benefit. The then Vice Chancellor, Y. Venkatrami Reddy, introduced the system of sending question papers through CDs locked with a password that used to be revealed an hour before examination. Later, online testing was adopted.
The JNTU in-charge Registrar, E. Saibaba Reddy said earlier revelations were that students were able to guess the answers based on the pattern of the question papers. That was plugged making changes in the system.
“We will study it and enhance our security systems if needed,” he said.
However, he said the University had discussed a plan to increase the number of questions in the bank and give open access.
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