HYDERABAD: As many as three cases of impersonation were detected during the ongoing Board of Intermediate Examinations exams on Friday. An impersonator, who was caught, said he became a proxy as the student concerned was failing.
“He was caught half-an-hour into the exam when the invigilator checked photos,” said a BIE official.
While it’s a grave offence, officials maintain it is often a mindless act on part of students that lead them to trouble, officials said. Most of the times they are caught right when the photo on hall ticket is cross checked with photo registers available with invigilator.
The last nail in the coffin is at the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), who cross check hand writing of impersonator and student.
Sources said that after such cases are detected, handwriting samples of impersonators and student concerned are sent to FSL.
“When people write, they loop letter ‘g’ in a particular way, cross the ‘t’s. These aspects of the students writing and the impersonator are compared with the writing in answer sheets to find who has written the exam,” sources said, adding that during March, April, May most of the impersonation cases emerge from Board of Secondary Education, and BIE.
“Since photos are printed and not pasted or stapled to hall tickets, they cannot change it on the hall ticket. If they want to, it is an elaborate procedure. The only thing proxies can do is to come, sit in the examination hall. They get caught during the verification,” said a Regional Inspection Officer. “If there is any doubt about identity, we verify using photo and signature,” said Dr A Ashok, secretary of BIE.