Overview
- CBSE, which posted a clarification Friday, said the new on-screen marking system is fair and told dissatisfied students to first request scanned copies of their answer books and then file for re-evaluation through the set process.
- Following the May 13 results that recorded an 85.20% pass rate, a drop of 3.19 percentage points from last year, complaints surged online over unexpectedly low marks, especially in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics.
- The on-screen system scanned about 98.7 lakh answer books for digital checking, letting examiners mark on computers with stepwise scoring and auto-calculated totals to cut human tallying mistakes.
- Students shared petitions and posts questioning consistency, while some educators cited rushed training and one anonymous checker alleged glitches such as marks not registering, which have not been verified.
- About 1.77 million students sat the exams this year, magnifying the impact of the pass-rate dip on families, and the board has kept its answer-copy access and re-evaluation windows open to address disputes.