The health Ministry has decided to not allow any electronic device such as calculator, mobile phone and wristwatch in examination halls during this year’s medical and dental admission tests, scheduled for October 24.
The ministry issued a circulation signed by Senior Assistant Secretary of the ministry Md Rezaul Alam in this regard on Tuesday.
The circulation stated that the admission seeker will not be allowed to take any electronic device like calculator, wristwatch, mobile phone and other Bluetooth devices, inside the examination halls.
Professor ABM Abdul Hannan, director for medical education and manpower development at the Directorate General for Health Services, said the circulation was issued to prevent digital defraud.
All of the 22 examination centres around the country would have at least two wall clocks so that examinees could do without having to carry wristwatches, authorities said.
Only the heads of the examination centres, who are generally the principals of the respective medical colleges, and the superintendents of each of the halls would be allowed to carry mobile phones, that too, only to assure smooth coordination of the tests.