The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Friday issued a major update on the launch of its new portal for the verification and re-evaluation of Class 12 answer sheets.
The board confirmed that Post-Result Activities portal will now be launched on June 1, after previous reports claimed that it would be out on May 29.
"This is to ensure the highest standards and protocols of evaluation," it wrote in a post on X, adding that students with queries could contact the CBSE Tele-Counseling Helpline at 1800 11 8004 or mail them at resultcbse2026@cbseshiksha.in.
"It will open on June 1 because we are still strengthening the website," a CBSE official told Hindustan Times.
This comes as the board's On-Screen Marking (OSM) system faces massive backlash from students across the country over blurred answer sheets, missing pages, and marking errors.
Did CBSE defend the OSM amid the backlash?
On top of the backlash it received for flaws in OSM, the CBSE is facing fresh fire for allegedly circulating a social media toolkit to school principals this week instructing them on how to defend the system.
The report claimed that it was this toolkit, titled 'Material for Principals', that was used by faculty members in recent videos in which they described the board as “highly proactive, empathetic, and communicative regarding these teething issues".
While most videos posted by principals online amid the OSM row featured close variations of the script, a few refused to follow it at all.
“I saw that Instagram has been flooded with principals supporting CBSE and the OSM process despite knowing very well about the problems it caused to students ... However, I feel we should voice students’ concern, stress, and agony as their careers are at stake. Hence, I did not make any video in CBSE’s OSM favour,” the principal of a Delhi-based private school said, as per the report.
Notably, it was the sudden wave of scripted videos, in response to the backlash over students and parents complaining about the OSM system, that sparked controversy.
The earlier complaints, which alleged major issues with the answer sheets that affected the futures of thousands of teenagers, had also paved way for questions of whether the system itself was tested before its nationwide rollout.
