KEAM 2024 to Be Held in CBT Mode? CEE Invites Quotations for Security Auditing of Computer Based Tests

In the latest notification on the official website of CEE, the Office of the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations has invited sealed quotations for carrying out security auditing of the CBT (Computer Based Test) Entrance Examinations. Read the complete report here.

Commissioner of Entrance Examinations will probably hold KEAM 2024 in computer-based test mode. The preparations to hold the state-level entrance exam in computer mode are ongoing. KEAM 2024 notification is also expected soon, which will have complete details on the KEAM exam date, registration date and the mode of the exam. Currently, CEE has put up a quotation notice on the official website, cee-kerala.org, regarding carrying out security auditing of the CBT (Computer Based Test) Entrance Examinations. This only means that CEE is all set to transform the  KEAM offline exam into CBT mode.

The quotation notice reads:

 The sealed quotation should reach at this (State Data Centre of the Office of the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations) office on or before 15/12/2023 at 3 PM, which will be opened on the same day at 4 PM.

Candidates can read the complete notice below:

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Discussions surrounding the transition of the Kerala Engineering, Architecture and Medical (KEAM) entrance exam from a pen-and-paper format to a computer-based test (CBT) have resurfaced last year too. However, technical challenges ultimately prevented its implementation, according to reports.

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KEAM has been held as an offline exam. Until 2023, traditional pen and paper mode was used by the candidates to appear for this state-level entrance exam. Candidates record answers to multiple-choice questions in an Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) sheet. KEAM has two papers, paper 1 is physics & chemistry and paper 2 is mathematics. In the exam, there are MCQ-based questions and each question has 5 options of which 1 is correct. Each correct answer carries 4 marks and a wrong answer has a negative marking of 1 mark.

KEAM consistently draws a large number of aspiring students each year. In 2023, over 1.23 lakh candidates took the exam, marking a slight increase from the 1.22 lakh who participated in 2022. This demonstrates a steady rise in interest in pursuing higher education in engineering, architecture, and medicine through the KEAM pathway.

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