About 7,500 candidates from across the country appeared for the PGIMER’s MD/MS entrance examination amid high security here today. The students underwent multi-layered security checks before reaching the examination halls at each of the 12 exam centres. Even envelopes of admit cards were not allowed in view of the previous instance of cheating during the examination using sophisticated devices that surfaced two years ago. The students appeared for the exam for 120 seats for different specialities in the institute. The PGIMER has been plugging the loose ends by ensuring hi-tech security during all entrance exams since the major cheating scam was unearthed during the entrance exam in 2012. Sources said in addition to ensuring frisking, photography and biometric fingerprint capturing, bug detectors, jammers and other security measures for the examinees, the academic wing of the PGIMER also changed the pattern of the paper to ensure that the best of the 7,500 candidates make it to the seats. Some of the students also felt that defying the notion that the PGIMER's entrance test is one of the toughest medical entrances, today’s paper was relatively easier than that of the AIIMS, New Delhi. The cheating scam In November 2012, CBI sleuths arrested seven decoy candidates from different exam centres who were found passing on information to another 10 beneficiaries using sophisticated Bluetooth devices. Based on a tip-off, the CBI team followed the candidates to Chandigarh and caught them at the centres. Later, the beneficiaries and the mastermind were also traced and arrested. The case is now pending before the special CBI court here
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