CUTTACK: High School Certificate (HSC) Examination results, from next year, would be announced sans publication of the voluminous books containing school-wise details. Instead, results would be sent to schools individually through e-mails which in turn would disseminate them among their students. The move marks efforts by the Board of Secondary Education (BSE), which conducts the HSC examinations, to make results easily accessible to the students as well as sparing itself the hassles of the time-consuming process of publishing books, transporting them to the districts and finally making them available to the students. The step would also result in substantial cost savings for the cash-strapped examination body of the State. “We will ask all the schools to open individual email accounts and even seek the assistance of OPEPA in providing the schools with mail IDs on a common platform. Each school would be sent an email containing the results of its students right on the time of announcement. The students would just have to be at their own school to get their results. This would make things easier for us, the schools as well as students,” BSE president Satyakam Mishra told this paper. Under the present system, result books are the mainstay of result announcements even though they are made available through the websites or SMSes. Over 10,000 books are published and despatched to 33 centres across all the districts. As a result there is always a wild rush not only at the BSE office here but also at the centres. While people, who procure the result books, charge good money for only giving the results, in the interior areas students have to wait a day or two to know their fate. “All these would be eliminated as the results would reach students simultaneously through e-mail. The book-making process delays announcement of results by at least four days. The Board would also save more than ` 5 lakh by shifting to the e-mode. We are planning to start this on an experimental basis from this year’s supplementary examinations itself,” Mishra said. The BSE has also moved to hasten the tabulation process by introducing optical mark recognition (OMR) forms. Now, each mark is entered manually in assigned forms and then fed into computers by data entry operators. This results in double-entry which is prone to errors. The process is also cumbersome and time-consuming. The OMR forms would completely transform the system as the tabulator will just have to mark the numbers at their allotted points and the sheets can be directly scanned into the computer. In that way, marks can be posted in the computer on a daily basis speeding up the process. “The forms would be introduced in the supplementary examinations this year. The forms are being developed by a highly- qualified technical agency,” Mishra said.
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