NEW DELHI: The
Central Board of Secondary Education for the first time successfully tested
centre-based printing of
encrypted question paper across 32 centres on Monday. The pilot run was conducted for 11 subjects where the number of students were less than 1000 for the Class X compartmental examinations which started on Monday. The test run would continue till July 25, 2018.
Following the leaks of mathematics (Class X) and economics (Class XII) Board exam papers early this year, the
CBSE decided to try delivering encrypted question paper directly to the centres and providing the passwords half an hour before the start of the exam so that the centre head could take a print out and then photocopy it as per the requirement.
No incidents of glitches or delay in the process were reported. According to Anurag Tripathi, "secretary, CBSE, "The first day trial went off smoothly and we will keep a watch for the rest of the period as to how the system functions and what all needs to be fine tuned."
The Board will send double encrypted question papers directly to the centres. At around 10 am the centre superintendents got the passwords and they opened the question papers.
As an exigency measure the Board also kept a set of hard copy question papers ready. These question papers, according to CBSE sources, were different from that if the encrypted ones. And no hard copy question papers were used on Monday.
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