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The Seshadripuram First Grade College, Yelahanka, in Bangalore told its students this year that they can now give their exam through mobile phones.

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As every schools and colleges of the country are strict against use of mobiles in the classrooms, the so called Seshadripuram College comes up with an idea thereby allowing students and teachers to use mobile phone which goes against other’s decision.

The system referred as ‘Interactive Platform On Mobile (IPOMO)’, the college officials makes the availability of common type of handsets to the students and teachers for the utilizing the facility. There will be no games or message options in the given handsets and once the given task is performed, the mobile is to be handed over to the college officials.

The new system was used as pilot project for BBM and BCA courses last year which proved to be worth for further extension to other courses gradually.

M Prakash, Principal of the college spoke to the TOI reporter saying “The idea is to use technology in providing quality education, when we started the pilot project, students were curious and attracted to it. Moreover, it’s quicker and copying is not possible in this technology”.

The pattern is a three-hour test with 120 objective questions having four options where the student has to select the right answer. After completing the given questions the students can revise their answers opted and finally click on the submit where the answers get automatically recorded in the server and the marks will be consolidated. For any calculation –oriented questions, the students also have the facility to use the calculators embedded in the handsets for solving.

If a student fails to get his attendance mark for three days continuously, a SMS will be then sent to the parents’ number soon.

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