The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) will introduce a digital pen and tablet-based technology for the examiners to evaluate answer scripts from 2016 board examinations. This will help in better evaluation and publishing ICSE and ISC results,
Addressing the media chief executive and secretary of CISCE Gerry Aarathoon said that the Council is planning to introduce the live Ink Character Recognition (lICR) Solution technology while evaluating answer scripts by the examiners.
On the sidelines on the 28th Regional Conference of ASISC (Association of Schools for the Indian School Certificate) Bihar Jharkhand region, he said that lICR is a technology which ensures a digital pen and tab used by examiners to evaluate answer scripts and helps publish results in a shorter time. The technology will be accurate and would reduce the recheck requests. It has been planned to be introduced from 2016.
He said that from this year the council has done away with the OMR (optical mark recognition) sheets that was introduced last year for students as well as examiners. After much complaints from all over the country, the CISCE has scrapped the tedious and confusing OMR marking for students, evaluators and supervising examiners. The traditional index number which has the year, centre code, school code and the roll number of students was re-introduced after a gap of a year.
“At the time of the examinations, students tend to be tensed and they make mistakes somewhere and schools also complained to the council so that could be one of the reasons to abolish it,” said Indrani Singh, principal of ADlS Sunshine School affiliated to CISCE.
Aarathoon informed that examiners would use normal pens to check answer scripts, they would use the lICR pen to fill in slots on the top sheet of answer scripts containing a summary of marks obtained. The examiner would then click a check mark on the tab to verify the input. The lICR would then scan the entire top sheet and send it to the Council’s system, he explained.
Strategies to make schools relevant to changing times was focus at a regional conference of Association of Schools for the Indian School Certificate (ASISC), in which 129 principals from across Bihar and Jharkhand took part.
