M M Jasim :
Some powerful syndicates are active with high-tech Bluetooth Device to leak the university admission test question papers.
The syndicates comprising the student leaders, present students, management coaching centers and former students of different universities are capturing a good amount of money from the admission seekers.
The members of the syndicates assure the admission seekers that they have the capability of ensuring the candidate’s admission. But the candidates must follow their (syndicates) direction. The syndicate members after getting payments from the students or their guardians give high-tech Bluetooth Device and prepare them to use it during the admission tests.
They leak the questions out shortly after the start of the admission test. Then they text the answers to their clients among the examinees sitting inside the halls, sources said.
Although the university authorities banned cell phones and electronic devices in the examination halls, the syndicates supply cell phones to their clients through a section of dishonest university teachers and staff.
On October 30, the law enforcers arrested 15 people from different areas in Dhaka suspecting their involvement in leakage of question papers for admission to Dhaka University and Jagannath University.
The detainees include several applicants of ‘Ka’ unit admission test of Dhaka University (DU) and one applicant of ‘Ka’ unit admission test of JnU. Two youths, a boy and a girl, were caught in front of DU Central Mosque around 2:00pm, while having a deal over question paper leak of ‘Ka’ unit admission test of Jagannath University (JnU).
One of them, identified as Malek Sheikh, a student of psychology department of Dhaka College, is a member of a syndicate involved with leakage of question papers for university admission tests.
The other, a JnU admission seeker, said that she was asked by a teacher from a coaching centre to contact Malek for JnU ‘Ka’ unit questions. Tipped off, the youths were caught from in front of the DU central Mosque after the Jumma prayers for suspected involvement in buying and selling of question papers for admission test, said AM Amzad, Proctor of DU.
Some questions from Physics and Biology and their answers came to Malek’s mobile phone as text messages around 3:00pm, which proved their involvement in question paper leakage, he added.
The questions and answers were sent by Kazi Kaushik, a former student leader of Dhaka College, Malek said.
Earlier the morning of October 30, police picked up a candidate as he was using an electronic device during the admission test of ‘Ka’ unit under the science faculty of the university.
Police picked up a candidate as he was using an electronic device during the admission test of ‘Ka’ unit under the science faculty of Dhaka University. Md Rabiul Islam, Assistant Proctor of DU, said there was no possibility of question leak before the start of the admission test. But during the examination, someone might take the question paper out illegally. Detectives earlier claimed to have arrested of 12 people from Tejturi Bazar in Dhaka suspected of involvement in selling ‘fake question papers’ for admission to Dhaka University.
The crackdown took place on the night of October 29, hours before the admission test of the ‘Ka’ unit began, said Muntasirul Islam, Deputy Commissioner (Media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).
The detainees were held for providing students with some questions for ‘Ka’ unit admission test in exchange of money, the DMP officials said. The aforementioned information was only a day of Ka Unit admission test of Dhaka University and Jagannath University.
Such incidents took place also in each and every admission tests of Jahangirnagar University, Chittagong University, Rajshahi University and other public universities across the country.
Now the syndicates are working at those universities where the admission tests are yet to hold, sources said.
Dhaka University Proctor Professor AM Amzad told The New Nation that they adopted the highest care to check leaking of question papers this year. Every body was physically searched while they entered the examination hall. Female teachers were instructed to search the female candidates. But some untoward incidents were held during and before the admission tests.
