New Delhi, Feb. 11 -- The Central Board of Secondary Education will introduce the On-Screen Marking system for evaluation of Class 12 answer books from the 2026 board examinations beginning February 17, marking a major shift to digital assessment while retaining pen-and-paper mode of examination and human evaluation. The board said the move aims to improve "efficiency and transparency" in the assessment process, with benefits such as "elimination of totalling errors," "reducing manual intervention", and "faster evaluation with wider teacher participation." Under OSM, students will continue to write exams in the same format, but answer scripts will be scanned, digitised and uploaded by CBSE to a portal where teachers will log in with their unique IDs to assess answer copies on computer screen using digital tools for marking, annotations and page navigation. P9...