COMPUTER AWARENESS COMPETITION

1. The aim of the competition is to generate computer awareness and to cultivate computer culture among the Police personnel, promote office automation and to identify and encourage the existing talent through a spirit of healthy competition. This competition has been introduced from 1992.
Scope

The Scope of the competition is as follows:

Event - I: Computer Awareness and basic knowledge to be tested in the form of an objective type test. There shall be negative marking for wrong answers. For every 4 wrong answers 0.25 negative marks shall be deducted. There will be no negative marks for question with NO ANSWER (left blank I not answered).

Event - II: Practical tests involving Office Automation as
follows:
a.
b.
Text Entry MS-Word (for testing speed and accuracy)
Preparation of a Presentation material in MS PowerPoint
- 5 pages
Creating of a table in MS-Excel. Preparation of graph
(Pie-chart, histogram, bar-chart, line-chart et.) and printing.
c.
Event - III: This event has two options out of which one option
is to be selected, as per convenience.
a.
Option - I: Develop a prescribed program using Visual
Basic Version 6.0 for Data entry and retrieval. Make appropriate validation on one of the screens. MS - Access to be used as database.
b.
Option - II: Practice application of CCIS MLe (Crime
Criminal Information System Multi Lingual)
i)
Form Entries - IIFs (to test speed and accuracy of data entry)

ii)
iii)
Queries and reports
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Using CCls database, generate prescribed
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report through SQL.
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Method Of Conduct

3. The competition will be conducted for the Events - I and II as individual events and Event - III will be team event. Individual scores will be aggregated for the individual events to get the team scores.

Team Composition

4. A maximum number of participants in a team, for each State
fUT/CPO will be 5 (five) and shall not be above the rank of a Dy. SP. In

Event-I, a maximum of four members from an organization can
participate, while in Event - II only one member of the team from an
organization can participate. In Event - III, any two members of the team can participate. Each participant will be free to participate in more than one event.

Eligibilitv
5. All States/UT Police/ CPOs are eligible to participate, except
NCRB, which will be Coordinating and conducting the Competition.

Referees
6. Referees for the conduct of the competition and evaluation
will be nominated by NCRB. In the event of any protest, the decision of Chief Judge will be final and binding on all the teams. In the event of a tie of positions the following methods shall be used,

Event-I:
Contestant having more correct answers shall be decaled the winner. In case of a tie in number of correct answers also, no. of wrong answers shall be taken into reckoning. Contestant with lesser negative marks shall be the winner.
Event-II:
Contestant taking lesser time in completing the tasks will be declared the winner.
Event -III:
Team taking lesser time in completing the tasks will be decaled the winner.

Prizes

Event -I: Individual Gold, Silver and Bronze for contestants standing First, Second and Third respectively.
Event-II: Individual Gold, Silver and Bronze for contestants standing First, Second and Third respectively.
Event-III: Both members of the team will get Gold, Silver and Bronze for team standing First, Second and Third respectively.
Best Team for Overall performance of Event -I, II and III

Winner Trophy - One
Runners Up Trophy: - One

Overall performance is adjudged by the following formula
(a) Average scores of Event - I + Score of Event - II + Score of
Event -III
(b) In case of a tie (Le. if two or more teams end up with the same score, then team that has higher average score in Event - I shall be the winner.
(c) In case of tie in over all aggregate and the average Event - I score highest individual score in Event - I shall decide the winner.

Example.
Team A, Team B and Team C have same final aggregate of 76 marks.
Average Score in Event - I for Team A and Team C is 40 marks
and that of Team B is 41. In this case Team B shall take first Position.

For second and third position, Team A and Team C are tied.
Team A and Team C had two contestants each in Event I. Score of individual contestants for Team A and C are as follows.
Team -A
Team-C
Contestant A 1 - 60
Contestant A2 - 20
Contestant C1- 15
Contestant C2 - 65

In this case Contestant C2 of Team C has scored highest amount the 4 contestants. Therefore, Team C shall take second position while Team A finished third.
Final Ranking: Team B followed by Team C and Team A in that
order.