NEW DELHI; April: The National Informatics Centre (NIC) has created a national facility for Computer-aided Paperless Examination System (CAPES). Using CAPES, any objective type examination can be conducted paperless on computer terminals. The application has already been tested at NIC Headquarters in New Delhi for the promotion reviews of NIC Programmers/District Informatics Officers (DIO) this year.
As a medium-level pilot implementation of CAPES, NIC shall conduct aptitude tests for the recruitment of 100 posts of programmers of NIC; and for the posts of Assistant Provident Fund Commissioners of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).
About 10,000 candidates are expected to appear for each of the examinations. These tests will be conducted in 18 State Centres of NIC covering 35 examination sites. The number of examination sites in each city has been fixed based on the number of candidates appearing from that city.
The main objectives of CAPES include:
- Coping with the increasing number of candidates
- Conducting paperless examinations
- Doing away with confidentiality constraints
- Establishing a scientific and rational method for screening candidates
- Providing intrinsic security
- Making the applications user-friendly so that candidates can handle them with ease
The success of CAPES in these pilot projects will open the doors for computerization of other examinations of universities, education boards and institutions, government departments, state public service commissions and the UPSC.