Cuttack, April 18: The evaluation of answer sheets of students, who appeared the annual high school certificate (HSC) examination, began at 70 centres across the state from today. A two-tier “scrutiny system” has been introduced by officials of the Board of Secondary Education (BSE), Orissa to ensure an error free evaluation this year.

“Elaborate measures have been taken by the board to eliminate possible errors during evaluation process that is likely to continue for 10 to 12 days,” said BSE president Dr Satyakam Mishra.

A total of 4,85,586 students including 4,20,687 regular, 48,498 ex-regular and 14,212 regular correspondence and 2,189 ex-regular correspondence course had appeared in this year’s matriculation examination that began on March 16.

Around 18,120 examiners have been appointed for the evaluation of the answer sheets. A special team headed by one chief examiner, 18 assistant and three deputy chief examiners have been constituted for the valuation of copies.The deputy chief examiners will crosscheck the copies of those students who have secured less or higher marks. These will rechecked by respective chief examiners before the marks are sent for tabulation. This is likely to solve the problem of wrong evaluation and other minor mistakes.