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Handwriting Crisis In CBSE Evaluation: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has found itself at the center of an escalating controversy regarding its Class 12 post-result verification process. While the board was already drawing severe flak from students and parents nationwide over frequent portal crashes, transactional payment failures, and illegible, blurred scanned copies, a fresh allegation has completely shifted the focus toward structural flaws within the digitization system. A student has openly claimed that the system fundamentally mismatched his examination documents during processing.

The dispute gained traction after Vedant Shrivastava, a Class 12 candidate, accessed the board's verification link to download the digital photocopy of his evaluated Physics answer script. Upon opening the file uploaded under his official roll number, the student discovered that the paper did not reflect his actual exam performance. He alleged that the entire script, including the handwriting style, question selection, and overall presentation, belonged to a completely different candidate, raising critical questions about how his actual paper was evaluated.

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Discrepancies Highlighted in Social Media Revelations

In a detailed series of public posts on the social media platform X, Vedant (@VEDANTSHRIV17) shared evidence comparing his various downloaded answer scripts to highlight the processing error. He noted that while his English and Computer Science digitized copies featured identical penmanship, the Physics paper stood out as an anomaly.

"The Physics answer sheet sent by CBSE is not my answer sheet at all. I know this is not my handwriting and it did not have the questions I attempted. Not just me, my family, teachers, and everyone who knows my writing immediately noticed the difference. The handwriting style, letter formation, spacing, slant, sentence flow, everything is different. This is not a minor variation. It is completely different writing."


Severe Impact on PCM Aggregate and Academic Eligibility

This operational mix-up has caused significant distress for the student, as the marks awarded on the incorrect sheet have severely damaged his cumulative academic score. By receiving just 50% marks on a paper he claims he did not write, his overall Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics (PCM) aggregate dropped below the critical 75% threshold. This specific benchmark is mandatory for securing admissions and participating in counseling rounds for premier national-level engineering institutes, effectively putting his higher education plans on hold.

Demands for Physical Audits and System Transparency:

The incident has amplified wider complaints from Class 12 candidates regarding the integrity of the On-Screen Marking (OSM) system introduced by the board to streamline evaluation. Vedant and supporting student communities have urged CBSE to halt automated processes for disputed cases and pull the original physical answer script from regional storage. They are demanding a full administrative audit of the scanning and data-tagging pipeline to investigate whether scripts were swapped during high-volume digitisation.

The student later noted that media networks had informed him that CBSE authorities are looking into the matter to initiate necessary corrections.


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