Same-day evaluation of ICSE and ISC answer scripts

KOLKATA: Answer scripts of ICSE and ISC will be evaluated by examiners at the venue of the exams on the day of the exam itself in the first semester. The marks will then be uploaded and submitted to the Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE).
A circular to this effect from the Council reached school heads on Friday evening. Details of how the evaluation will be done have been provided in the circular. ISC examination starts on Monday and ICSE on November 29. This is the first time that an MCQ pattern test will happen and a question paper-cum answer-booklet will be provided that will have to be submitted at the end of the test. Students will not be able to carry the question paper home.
The external examiners will visit the respective exam centres to evaluate the booklets and then upload and submit the marks within the given time limit after the exams are over. For ISC, the marks will be submitted by 6.30 pm and for ICSE they will need to be submitted by 6 pm, the circular stated. All examiners are external and will be visiting host schools to evaluate answer scripts. The Council will be choosing examiners from among teachers whose details schools have submitted.
A teacher who is appointed as the supervising examiner at an exam centre will be supervising the conduct of the exam and will also evaluate answer scripts.
“We are ready with the evaluation room and all other facilities that the Council has asked us to provide. It is a completely new system and the Council is guiding us in every step,” said John Stephen, acting principal of La Martiniere for Boys.