07/06/2021
From the Organizing Committee, মেডিকেলের মগজাস্ত্র 2.0,
Recently, it has come to our notice that a post by a team member of one of the finalist teams of our General Quiz Event is doing rounds in the social media, accusing the organizers of creating a 'google-able' quiz and charging exorbitant amounts while providing 'no quizzing'. While it is extremely disheartening for us to find some of our participants accusing us of misconduct, we had at first decided to not respond to the comment out of respect for the participants' choices. Yet, we have been forced to do so after the strong hate our college ended up receiving because of a quiz. To get the facts straight, the organizing committee did its utmost to prevent online cheating during the quiz: all the participants had to keep their videos on and had to face the camera throughout the quiz. Also, the questions were timed. Teams had to answer within 1 minute on direct and 20 seconds on pass, to discourage cheating. Yes, we cannot guarantee that these prevent cheating, but they are effective in minimizing them. Also, to make googling difficult, we had connected questions, image based questions and also some explanation-based answers. We had a number of questions, searching which on google do yield answers, but those answers are either incorrect/incomplete. A number of teams (including that of the complainant) did provide the exact (and wrong) answer from the google and lost points (though we had insufficient evidence to disqualify them on grounds of cheating).
It is disheartening to find that in spite of all of these, one of the teams (out of eight in the final) found it to be 'more of a googling contest' biased against them and felt that they needed to take their grievances out on social media first, without even bothering to contact us. However, we respect their right to uphold their opinions, even if those maybe against us. What we cannot accept at any cost the slander against our college- it is not just rude, it is plain hateful. Such defamation will not be tolerated in any way.