Following the announcement of Class 12 board results, students continue to face distress. A large number of students are seeking a revaluation of their answer sheets, pointing out glaring discrepancies where the marks awarded by the paper examiners on the digitally evaluated sheets do not match the total scores uploaded by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on its website.
Compounding the frustration, the board’s official website has been experiencing frequent technical snags.
Sources within the board revealed that the CBSE regional office in Ludhiana has already been flooded with over 17,000 revaluation applications for various subjects and streams, creating a massive backlog.
The revaluation process is moving at a slow pace due to an acute shortage of available teachers. Educators are being instructed to report to the regional centre as and when papers corresponding to their specific subjects are ready for review. This delay has sparked widespread anxiety among both students and teachers.
Adding to the chaos, serious errors have come to fore, with some students discovering that the same page of their answer sheet was uploaded twice on the portal, while in other cases, critical pages were missing entirely.
Furthermore, students are grappling with server glitches and blurred digital copies of their answer sheets, making independent verification nearly impossible.
Efforts to seek clarity have proven futile, as students complain that the helpline number issued by the CBSE routinely disconnects after just a single beep.
Teachers are equally disgruntled, with one educator noting that they had already faced immense difficulties during the initial checking phase and are now being pressured by the board to travel to the regional office amidst soaring temperatures for checking papers.
Meanwhile, a stressed student shared that she was forced to apply for revaluation only after spotting clear mathematical discrepancies, where the individual marks awarded for her answers were simply not calculated correctly into her final score.
From 2026 onwards, the CBSE decided to implement the On-Screen Marking (OSM) system for Class 12 board examinations, shifting from physical to digital evaluation. Under the new system, answer sheets were to be scanned and evaluated on computers. The process was aimed at automating total calculations, reducing human error, improving transparency and enabling wider participation of examiners without the need for travel.
Each evaluator were assigned around 20 answer scripts.
Due to unprecedented traffic on the website, the CBSE had extended the last date for obtaining scanned photocopies of Class 12 answer books to May 25.
Students got up to two days after receiving the scanned copy to apply for verification/re-evaluation.
