Every year millions of medical aspirants in the country are subjected to the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) exams which offer graduate or post-graduate courses in medical or dental colleges in the country. Unfortunately, most of these students have to face through administrative issues, which results in leaking of exam papers few days or even hours before the paper is to be written.
Well, at least in 2019, the trend seems have to been put in check, making sure that all papers are only accessed by the students eligible to give the NEET exams. How did that happen? “What is geo-tagging?”, might be the first question you’d ask and rightly so. This is a feature that’s most commonly seen on a phone’s camera, or third-party apps, from which you can get the right location of a person or an object in this case.
The process of tagging something (i.e any objects, infrastructure etc.) with geographical information like latitude, longitude, distance, place name, accuracy data in the form of geo-spatial metadata (may be any QR code, RSS feeds, SMS messages) is called as geo-tagging.