CBSE’s Digital Exam Gamble Backfires, Pradhan Takes Onus for OSM Flaws Amid Student Outcry
Pradhan said the first large-scale digital marking rollout exposed technical flaws, and CBSE has begun re-evaluation for nearly 17 lakh students.
- Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan acknowledged on Thursday that discrepancies had been noticed in CBSE Class 12 results, taking responsibility for the first large-scale rollout of the On-Screen Marking system in Delhi.
- Nearly 17 lakh students sat for the exams this year, generating around 98 lakh answer scripts that required digitizing and processing close to 40 crore pages for evaluation.
- Opposition Rahul Gandhi alleged there was "massive tampering" by Coempt Edu Teck, though The Board maintained the OSM portal was not "compromised" and that flagged vulnerabilities involved a testing site.
- Technical experts from IIT-Kanpur and IIT-Madras are examining the software architecture for glitches, while CBSE expanded its payment gateway by integrating State Bank, Indian Bank, Bank of Baroda and Canara Bank.
- Pradhan vowed "if somebody is intentionally responsible, we will not spare them," while Officials directed CBSE to immediately resolve all pending complaints regarding marks verification and re-evaluation.
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CBSE’s digital exam gamble backfires, Pradhan takes onus for OSM flaws amid student outcry
Facing mounting criticism over discrepancies in Class 12 re-evaluation results, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday publicly accepted responsibility for shortcomings in the Central Board of Secondary Education's (CBSE) newly introduced On-Screen Marking (OSM) system, while assuring students that all genuine grievances would be addressed.
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