Panaji: The Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education may have seen the number of applications for reevaluation nearly double this year, but data released by the board reveal very few discrepancies in the reevaluated answersheets.In most cases, the marks improved by only one mark, and the maximum marks earned after reevaluation by any Class X or XII student were four.In 2017, the board used Live Ink Character Recognition Technology (LICRT) for the tabulation of the results of its public exams. The board did away with the computer-assisted paper corrections it had introduced on a pilot basis in 2016. In LICRT, teachers carry out corrections manually. The marks allotted by teachers are fed into the system through character recognition, and the tabulation of the results takes place electronically.A majority of the students that had sought reevaluation this year were those who scored below the minimum requirement to clear a subject. In comparison, the number of those with high scores who sought reevaluation in the hope of further improving scores was low.The board this year was flooded with an unprecedented number of applications seeking re-evaluation, especially students who appeared for the Class XII board examinations in 2017. While around 600 students had sought reevaluation in 2016, the number nearly doubled this year.Despite the steep costs involved in the re-evaluation process (Rs 700 per subject), students remain undeterred, with some seeking re-evaluation in all subjects.Students who appeared for the state board exams this year could have sought re-evaluation in large numbers after several students in 2016 saw their Class XII marks go up by 10 to 22 in a single subject after reevaluation.In 2016, the commerce stream even saw a new top scorer emerging, after Manmeet Timble earned 17 more marks after reevaluation.

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