A Biometric System for Elimination of Examination Malpractice (A Case Study of Michael Okpara University Of Agriculture Umudike) :- Chikwendu, Chinagorom A

ABSTRACT

Design and implementation ofAutomated System for Elimination ofExamination Impersonation using Biometric is a biometric system that will be used in high/tertiary institutions to curb the examination impersonation and fraudulent acts as regard to school fees. This system is going to solve two basic problems; (1) Impersonation Detection:- the system will be able to detect impersonator(s) i.e. students writing exam for other students or bringing an external person (mercenary) to write exam for another student. (2) Curbing Fraud:- the system will also be able to detect fraudster(s) i.e students forging school fees receipts and I or Identity cards to enable them write exams when they have not paid or eligible. The software for this system will be used in all the examination halls, where the students will have to thumbprint and only those that the system (Biometric Machine) recognizes and found eligible will be allowed to write exams and those detected to have forged the receipt/ID card, writing exams for another student will be apprehended. Biometric was adopted in designing ofthis system because no two persons have the same fingerprint and it offers automated method ofidentity verification, as such verification of eligible and credible candidates for exam are assured with this system.The researcher has chosen, Michael Okpara University ofAgriculture as the Study for this research work.