NEET to CBSE, in the summer of exam discontent, Gen Z investigators are asking the most difficult questions
It didn’t take Mythos, the supercoding AI that India got access to this week, to find flaws that the whole govt machinery apparently could not. That job was done by a bunch of bright, tenacious teenagers, whose searing audits of CBSE’s new on-screen marking (OSM) system led to the top two bureaucrats in India’s largest national education board — chairman Rahul Singh and secretary Himanshu Gupta — being transferred this week as an embarrassed govt sought to fix accountability.
The audits didn’t stop at CBSE’s OSM — a botched attempt by the board to embrace the right technology — and re-evaluation blunders. They also exposed technical frailties of National Testing Agency (NTA), which is already battling an ineptitude perception with medical entrance NEET headed for a retest after a paper leak, and around 3,700 candidates being forced to take CUET, the national exam for undergraduate admissions, again after they encountered glitches the first time.
The audits didn’t stop at CBSE’s OSM — a botched attempt by the board to embrace the right technology — and re-evaluation blunders. They also exposed technical frailties of National Testing Agency (NTA), which is already battling an ineptitude perception with medical entrance NEET headed for a retest after a paper leak, and around 3,700 candidates being forced to take CUET, the national exam for undergraduate admissions, again after they encountered glitches the first time.