nagpur as reported by toi the std x results of cbse were declared before its affiliated std xii schools this year embracing technology has paid dividends to the central board as digital valuation of answer sheets ensured that results could be declared a week early usually std x results are declared by cbse around may 29 under the onscreen marking osm system answer sheets are scanned and uploaded to secure servers and later teachers evaluate the papers on computer once all the answer sheets have been scanned and uploaded to servers using the special software teachers at various valuation centres can download it and start online valuation in nagpur city there were four valuation centres every teacher gets to download papers in lots of 2030 once heshe completes marking of every paper in the lot the valuator is informed and the teacher can take on the next lot what saves time and ultimately helps in faster results delivery is that all mark calculations are done automatically by the software the teacher needs to simply check the answer sheet using the model answer paper and all calculations are done instantly it is expected that next year the std x results will be declared by the second week of may itself the osm software has helped pushed cbse usher in many changes to ensure fair valuation practices however one of the unintended benefits of osm turned out to be speedy results speaking to toi last month the boards chairman vineet joshi said we are anticipating early results this year because of this technology however the osms primary goal is to ensure quality assessment we want only 25 papers to be evaluated per day per teacher the osm improves quality of evaluation as now teachers get to go through all value points within an answer and mark them also human errors like missing an answer completely have been eliminated earlier we would have to award the student marks later on for such errors