00:00Imagine writing the most important exam of your life, but you lose marks because of a blurry scan.
00:04This is one of the accusations against the brand new digital marking system
00:08CBSU switched to this year in India, on-screen marking or OSM.
00:12Here's how it works.
00:13CBSU students still write their exams by hand, but instead of teachers marking the physical copies,
00:19the answer sheets are scanned and evaluated by teachers on a computer.
00:23As per the education board, the idea was to make marking more uniform, secure and reduce human errors.
00:27But in reality, it's not so smooth.
00:30Students across the country reported a wide range of issues, from suspiciously low marks
00:35and the evaluation of incorrect answer booklets to blurred scans of their answer sheets.
00:40The scale of the chaos?
00:41It affected nearly 1.78 million students.
00:45India's Education Minister Dharmedra Pradhan has now accepted responsibility.
00:49But do digital evaluation systems work elsewhere?
00:52In the UK and Hong Kong, for example, exams have been graded on-screen for years.
00:56So the question isn't whether digital evaluation is the future, it's whether we are rolling it out the right way.
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