Bangalore University To File Police Complaint Over Leaked Exam Papers

Bangalore University in Karnataka State of India decides to file police complaint today concerning Bachelors in Commerce exam papers that were marred by mistakes.

Last Tuesday's leak of some questions from a BCom exam question paper shook Bangalore University (BU) enough to force them to postpone the exams at the last minute. However, the leak was only the tip of iceberg. 

In fact, when BU postponed two further BCom exams of Elective Paper-IV — Management Accounting, and Principles of Auditing — there was more than a little confusion as to the reason behind the postponement. The answer is that while two questions (one question comprising 16 marks and other eight marks) were leaked in all three sets of one of the question papers, in the case of the other two: one question paper had the right title but the wrong questions; and in the other, four examiners failed to sign the question paper bundle (eight signatures are mandatory) submitted to the BU.

BU registrar (evaluation) KN Ninge Gowda said, "We were surprised to see that the question paper title was right but all the questions were from out of the syllabus. If we had issued the question paper that day, then it would have led to chaos and hence we had to withdraw it at the last minute. In another paper presented to us, we had noticed that only four of the eight examiners had signed the paper, which was very surprising. We constitute a board of examiners comprising seven members and a chairperson. Once the entire process of framing the question paper is ready, they need to submit the list to Bangalore University wherein all eight examiners (including the chairperson) need to sign. Surprisingly, only four of them had signed. We are now probing as why four others had not signed."

After a face-off over the leak in the first paper, the BU is now pulling up its socks by asking all question paper-setters to assemble on the university premises. "Till now, the question paper-setters used to choose the venue of their choice on the pretext of secrecy. However, we now have realised that the question paper leak was the handiwork of insiders. In future, we will ask all the setters to assemble on the premises. We will also install CCTV cameras so that we can keep an eye on them. However, as it involves a lot of secrecy, we are working out the modalities." Meanwhile, BU has issued notices to the board of examiners and will now file police complaints, said Gowda, adding that the evaluation for select subjects of sixth and eight semesters would begin from Monday.

                   Source: Bangalore Mirror