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UP Board HS, Inter exams: Evaluation of answer sheets ends day ahead of schedule
The evaluation of 3.19 crore answer sheets for High School and Intermediate Exams-2023 conducted by the UP Board in India has been completed ahead of schedule. Over 1,43,933 examiners were appointed to evaluate the papers at 258 centres across the state, with a focus on fair and timely evaluation through measures such as deploying static magistrates and armed police guards, and imposing Section-144 in a 100-metre radius around the evaluation centres.
The ongoing evaluation of answer sheets of High School and Intermediate Exams-2023 conducted by the UP Board was completed on Friday.
In all, 1,43,933 examiners were appointed to evaluate 3.19 crore answer sheets. This included around 1.86 crore answer sheets of High School for which 89,698 examiners were appointed and another 1.33 crore answer sheets of Intermediate exam for which 54,235 examiners were appointed, officials of Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UPMSP), as the UP Board is formally known as, said.
The evaluation work commenced at 258 evaluation centers spread across the state on March 18. It has been accomplished a day ahead of the scheduled date of completion on April 1, said UP Board secretary Divyakant Shukla.
Throughout the evaluation of answer sheets of both Classes 10 and 12, Board officials, led by Shukla, kept a close watch on a daily basis. For the first time, the evaluation work at all the 258 evaluation centres in the state has been completed ahead of schedule.
For the first time this year, for the training of examiners and deputy principal examiners, their deputy examiners were conducted through audio-video presentation at the regional office level, so that there could be error-free evaluation of answer sheets.
“Due to the timely training, the evaluation work could be completed ahead of time”, said Shukla.
With the aim of a fair and timely evaluation at centres, for the first time, one static magistrate was appointed at each evaluation centre and for the supervision of all the evaluation centers, located in each district, the principal of District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) concerned was appointed as supervisor, the secretary said.
Moreover, Section-144 was imposed in a radius of 100 meters around the evaluation centres even as deployment of at least four armed police guards and local intelligence unit/police personnel in plain clothes was also made.
The evaluation work was undertaken under the watch of CCTVs embellished with voice recorders. For proper monitoring of the evaluation, their continuous monitoring was done from the state level control rooms, he added.
According to the officials, the end of the evaluation process marks the start of another more sensitive part of the exercise that involves tabulation and preparation of the results, followed by their manual feeding into the computer systems.
“This will invariably take around 20 to 25 days,” said a senior UP Board official well-aware of the entire process.
This year, 58,85,745 candidates -- including 31,16,487 Class 10 students and 27,69,258 Class 12 students -- had registered for the High School and Intermediate exams. However, out of them, 4,31,571 students -- including 2,08,953 Class 10 students and 2,22,618 Class 12 -- didn’t appear for the exams. The High School and Intermediate exams-2023 had started on February 16 and concluded on March 4.
