Online Examination System in the Times of COVID 19: A Case Study of Pakistan

The study investigates the role of the online examination system during the COVID-19 pandemic and suggests multiple ways to minimize cheating in online exams. Owing to COVID-19, educational institutions have been compelled to adopt an E-learning system all across the globe. Similarly, an E-examination system has been adopted by institutions to save the academic year of the students in Pakistan. Moreover, students are also being facilitated by the teachers during online exams to minimize the deleterious impacts of an unprecedented situation on their grades. The present study discusses the nexus between the online examination system and cheating in Pakistan. A Convenience sampling technique is used to collect the data from the students of different universities in Lahore, Pakistan. The Total potential respondents were 130 and all were approached by using different social media apps. The Chi-square, KMO, and Cronbach’s alpha tests were applied by using IBM SPSS-23 for the analysis. Results of the study show that cheating can be minimized by having MCQs type paper with equations and higher-order short questions-answers. Moreover, the use of software like LMS would be beneficial.