MeritTrac Launches AuthenTrac !!

India’s first biometric authentication service for examinations, to make exam processes free from impersonations


• Several incidents of exam impersonations have been highlighted by the media in the recent past With the demand-supply dynamics that we have, it is a well established fact that a person’s life is made by getting into the right courses (read: Engineering, MBA, Medical) in the right colleges, getting a first-class in the degree or landing that plum Government job.

• The pressure to break the system is intense and the weakest link is the current process of authenticating a candidate for an exam. A controlled experiment that MeritTrac Research carried out on effectiveness of identifying forged signatures just proved this: just over 60% of experienced invigilators could identify less than 50% of forged signatures

• With its vast experience of having delivered over 1 crore exams, MeritTrac now has a answer to this menace – AuthenTrac, India’s first candidate authentication service, a patent-pending solution using a biometric authentication device.


Bangalore October 5th, 2010: 10 million professional entrance exams, 130 million semester exams and 50 million Government/PSU recruitment exams: these are the number of exams that candidates appear for, in our country. Almost all of these exams are conducted in a traditional paper-pencil mode and the exam process relies solely on the signature of the candidate as a proof of identity, post facto. With the intense competition to get the right seat, the appropriate marks and the plum Government post, this process of authentication remains by far the weakest link of the paper-pencil exam process, providing an opportunity for thousands of impersonations to happen routinely. In the last year alone, a quick search on news articles of impersonation has thrown up over 125 cases that have been highlighted by the national media alone.


The current process of authentication in the traditional paper-pencil mode today is to match the facial features of the candidate with the photograph on the hall (admission) ticket, and to match the signature of the candidate that is on the hall-ticket with the one that the candidate signs on the attendance sheet. While there are several drawbacks of the photograph verification (old photos, smudged prints, etc.), this photo verification process by the invigilator is not recorded anywhere at all and hence the signature becomes the sole artifact of authentication once the examination is conducted.

AuthenTrac: Biometric Authentication For Exams

Click the links below for brochures on biometric candidate authentication

Biometric Authentication For Semester Exams

www.tractalent.com/Semester+AuthenTrac.pdf

Biometric Authentication For Entrance Exams

www.tractalent.com/Entrance+AuthenTrac.pdf