The Central Secondary Education Board (CBSE) will go all out to ensure that large-scale exam cheating will not occur in the All India Pre-medical Admissions Test (AIPMT) on May 1 next year. The HRD Department completed a foolproof plan at its meeting with CBSE-the plan will establish more than 1,000 test centers nationwide and be equipped with handheld metal detectors, GSM jammers and fingerprint scanners-to repeat 2015 The infamous entrance exam prevention of the year.
The exam controls 15% of admissions to undergraduate degrees in medicine and dentistry in the country, and the rest is filled by state-level admissions exams. The exceptions are Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Jammu and Kashmir: they fill all their medical and dental seats with their own exams. CBSE conducted 400,000 tests in July, when CBSE installed metal detectors and error detectors in all 1,065 centers. In addition to some gsm frequency jammers, it also checked for malfeasance.