TCS i ON Digital Scoring OMR Sheets A

TCS i. ON Digital Scoring OMR Sheets A Re-imaginati. ON Copyright © 2016 Tata Consultancy Services Limited

Traditional OMR based Exam

Traditional OMR based Exam OMR Sheet Designing, Printing & Dispatch Design of OMR Sheets Result Processing and Merit List Printing of OMR Sheets Data comparison & Mismatch rectification Logistics Risk • Printing and packing of OMR sheets • Huge Logistics effort in transportation of filled in OMR sheets, from TC Common location Scanning Center • Damage/loss of filled OMR sheet 3 Packing OMR Sheets Double OMR Scanning Question Paper Printing Dispatch OMR Sheets Absentee Punching Scanning Risk • Dual scanning of OMR sheets by 2 vendors to extract responses • Image scanning of OMR sheets Question Bank Packing & Transfer of Test Materials Proof Reading & Finalizing Conduct of Examination Result Processing • Lack of formal and secured process for comparison of responses and scoring • Risk of matching keys to incorrect sets • Delay in processing & publishing results QP Printing & Packing Supervisor/Invigilator Deployment QP Delivery to centers Center Booking & Seat Arrangement RTI Handling • Lack of systematic house keeping of records • Lack of audit trail • Delay in addressing RTI queries

TCS i. ON Digital Scoring Re-imaginati. ON of OMR Scoring

TCS i. ON Digital Scoring process flow Test Centre Booking Candidate Learning Analytics Online Application Form [Client] Day of Exam Scanning of OMR Image Processing Question Paper Authoring Publish Results (Detailed Reports) Content Authoring Engine Question Bank For all formats of exams [Supports Secured Distribution and Printing of Question Papers in case of Paper-Pen Assessments] QP Publish 5 OMR Configuration OMR Publish Result Processing

2. 2 TCS i. ON Digital Scoring – Process Flow Infrastructure Set Up OMR Configuration Command Centre At Test Centre Distribution of OMR sheets ASM QP QP Creation At Test Centre Collection of OMR sheets CAE Result Processing ADC Result Housekeeping ADC Answer Key Upload At City Level ADC Report Generation ADC Scanning Utility OMR Image Processing QP/OMR Publishing to Candidate OMR Utility ADC Upload Utility ASM= Assmt Mgmt 6 CAE = Content Authoring Engine ADC= Assmt Data Centre OMR = Optical Mark Recognition

TCS i. ON Digital Scoring Key Benefits

Key Benefits • Timeline With zero/minimal exceptions, results can be processed & published on the next day of receiving scanned OMR sheets Timeline dependent on exceptions • • Results Security OMR Sheets 8 Candidate QP set along with candidate’s response, correct response and obtained marks can be displayed Candidate’s OMR sheet image along with the responses and evaluation can be published Addressing RTI Queries • • • Highly secured upload of scanned OMR sheets to data center Immediate scanning to avoid manipulation System based House keeping to manage exceptions Audit Trail of key activities as part of housekeeping • • OMR sheets can be printed in the Test Center OMR sheet can be printed in regular A 4 sheet of paper

OMR – QP Publishing Post Exam - Publishing of Candidate’s QP with response 9

Publishing OMR Sheet Post Exam - Publishing of OMR Sheet 10

TCS i. ON Digital Scoring – Our Experience Customers No of Candidates Total No of Days Total No of Exam of exam Shifts of exam centers Total No of Cities Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) 1887 1 2 6 1 Allahabad High Court (AHC) 1, 02, 304 1 1 115 13 36, 000 1 1 89 8 3, 700 1 1 15 1 2, 65, 000 4 4 230 12 Rajasthan Police OSSC Allahabad High Court (AHC) 11 Total candidates assessed as on : 408891

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