Students Identification in Exams Via RFID Reader

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Unified Examinations are held annually by WAEC for its member countries specifically Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Liberia and Sierra Leone. In order to manage candidates for every region, the Council requires ensuring a series of plans about location, time, subjects and frequency of examinations.
 
In the scarcity of an effective management system and administrative apparatus, the work of WAEC becomes cumbersome and ineffectual. There was no plan or mechanism deployed, to contain/check/intercept problems like cheating and substitute examination which eventually has severe effects on working mechanisms of WAEC.
 

Challenges Ahead
  • Invigilators need to collate the candidates’ photos on the paper with their faces to avoid substitution but it may well turn out to be the case that the paper was tampered which again makes the whole idea and exercise of examination futile.
  • Unavailability of a network to record subjects, time frames and miscellaneous information of examination which makes it inconvenient and strenuous for each region to arrange examinations satisfactorily.
  • Statistical analysis of records is not possible as there is no automatic system for record creation.
 

Solutions
  • Chainway PDA perceives real-time access to the backend system along with functions of RFID reading and writing, in compliance with mobile data communication. It helps systematize storage and management of confidential data such as subjects, time and location of an examination.
  • This also orchestrates intelligent candidate identification System to precisely and methodically identify the candidates. It controls cheating during examinations and checks substitutes from taking exams hence upgrading the decorum of Examinations’ impartiality.

Application Effects
  • It impartially lessens substitute examinations, unfair means and partiality.
  • The scheduled information about the number and school of candidates thus becomes conducive to streamline flow.
  • It encouraged a comprehensive assessment of the candidates by making a detailed record of each candidate’s examination data including their cheating patterns and conduct.
  • It saved costs by eliminating the use of paper-based registration forms after the introduction of RFID technology.
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