The Controversy Surrounding CBSE's OSM Marking System Rollout
A social media toolkit. that’s what the regional offices of the CBSE circulated this week. it went out to the school principals. they were asked to defend the board’s marking system online. it felt instantly controversial.
The document itself, they called it “Material for Principals.” it wasn’t just a dry memo. it included scripts. things to read out. a kind of mandated narrative.
They were supposed to frame the board as something proactive. empathetic. communicative about these teething issues. a lot of spin, maybe.
Then the videos started popping up. hundreds of schools, including those government schools—Kendriya Vidyalayas and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas—they posted things. they amplified that prescribed messaging. it spread fast.
One of the read-outs they used, it was pretty neat. something like, “As with rolling out any technology on this scale, I know there are some implementation bumps causing concern… please, don’t panic. I want to reassure every student and parent that no child will suffer because of a technical error.”
That kind of reassurance. you could see it in the posts.
But not everyone bought in. not all principals followed the direction.
I saw this one thing. a principal from a private school in Delhi. he spoke to the Hindustan Times. he said something completely different. he felt the need to voice the students’ actual stress, their agony. he felt their careers were on the line. so he didn’t make a video supporting the CBSE’s OSM process. he just said, “I felt we should voice the concerns.”
That kind of pushback. it’s real.
Meanwhile, the official narrative was being spun elsewhere.
In another video, from a Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Jajpur, the principal-in-charge, Abhimanyu Bhatt, stepped up. he defended the CBSE. he talked about how OSM was a good initiative. proper evaluation. teachers got time. he even suggested that Class 10 students should benefit from it moving forward.
“OSM is a very good initiative by CBSE…” Bhatt said. “proper evaluation of answers has been done…”
Delhi Public School Siliguri principal, Anisha Sharma, did something different in her video. she matched the document exactly. she said the OSM was introduced with a positive outlook. evaluation would be fair. accurate. faster. transparent. that was the language they handed out.
It was all about framing.
The document itself laid out the justification. it stated that from an academic standpoint, the OSM system fundamentally improved assessment structure. it freed evaluators up to focus on content, not just arithmetic. it was supposed to be standardized. eco-friendly. aligned with the NEP.
But the real friction started much earlier. the controversy wasn’t just about the messaging. it was about the actual system.
It kicked off after thousands of students reported problems. they couldn't access the scanned copies of their evaluated answer sheets.
Some students claimed the documents were blurred. others said some responses were just left unchecked. there were complaints about payment glitches. repeated crashes during peak times. the whole portal seemed unstable.
And the response? CBSE extended the deadline for requesting those sheets. they issued a statement. they told students not to feel anxious. they promised subject experts would look into all legitimate complaints.
It felt like a massive disconnect. the board pushing a narrative of smooth progress while students were dealing with tangible, frustrating failures behind the scenes.
The system was supposed to be streamlined. but for a lot of people, it just felt like a headache. a complicated mess. and the principal’s job, it seemed, was caught right in the middle of that mess. defending the process while students were asking why it was broken.
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