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Panel weighs 1 lakh question vault for exams
The Indian Express··18h ago
Nandan Nilekani's High Powered Task Force on examination reforms is weighing a question vault with over one lakh vetted items and digital delivery minutes before tests, sources said. Nilekani said generating papers at the last minute removes incentives to sell a fixed question paper. The Staff Selection Commission already uses a similar vault mechanism, senior officials said.
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What It Means For You
- Students may face unfamiliar item banks if papers are drawn randomly at the last minute.
- Coaching centres could lose advance access to fixed papers under a vault model.
- Exam administrators must secure translators if regional language papers stay in use.
What's Happening
- The six-member panel formed after the NEET-UG leak is discussing reforms.
- Proposals include debundling who sets, hosts and prints papers.
- Nilekani spoke about vault mechanics at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum.
NEET leak and the vault idea
- The NEET-UG paper leak triggered the high-powered task force.
- Officials flagged translation as a vulnerability in recent leaks.
- SSC officials described drawing 20 to 30 questions from a large pool.
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