The Council of Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) will now publish the Class X and Class XII results faster and with better accuracy, thanks to a new technology called Live Ink Character Recognition (LICR Solution), from the next academic year.
Under this system, the examiners would use a digital pen and a tablet while evaluating answer scripts, CISCE chief executive and secretary Gerry Arathoon told reporters here on Thursday.
The CISCE conducts the ICSE exam for Class X and the ISC exam for Class XII students.
“The LICR Solution is designed by Orion India Systems Private Limited. While examiners will continue using normal pens for evaluation, they will use the ‘Orion LICR Pen’ to fill in slots on the top sheet of each answer script against each question. The LICR process will provide an image of the entire top sheet along with the digitised marks instantly. Examiners have to tap and confirm the marks (on the tab). Subsequently, the question-wise marks as well as grand total obtained will be transferred to the central servers of the CISCE which is a 100 per cent secure process,” Mr. Arathoon said.
A successful pilot run was conducted this year, he said adding that the new procedure would eliminate the requests for re-evaluation.
‘Wrong notion’
On the notion that the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) prepares students better for competitive exams, Mr. Arathoon said it was a wrong mindset.
“Since the CBSE conducts exams like the All India Engineering Entrance Examination and All India Pre-Medical Test, there is a misconception that the CBSE prepares students better than the ICSE/ISC,” he said, and added that syllabus was the same for both national boards and the question pattern “more or less the same.”
He was “opposed” to the discrimination meted out by colleges and universities in different States to students of national boards during the admission process.
Students felicitated
During the day, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee felicitated meritorious students from across all the boards at an event here. Urging students to aim higher and assuring them of all possible help from the State government, she told them to keep their motherland in high regard.
The technology will be used from the next academic year
