Indian technology and human proctors help sustain global spurt in online exams

Academic institutions are switching rapidly to online exams. ST PHOTO: GIN TAY
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NEW DELHI - Exams have always been nerve-wracking for Ms Jayantika Arora. But the ones the postgraduate marketing and management student took in April were even more so.

Sent back home to Lucknow because of the Covid-19 pandemic, she, like her other batchmates at the IFIM Business School in Bangalore, had to take exams online - an arrangement made by the institute to ensure its academic year progressed without interruption.

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