This May, CBSE’s Class 12 board results arrived like a bad smell in an already scorching summer – hard to ignore, unwelcome, and somehow spreading everywhere.
For lakhs of students and parents, what should have been the usual annual anxiety around board exams quickly turned into missing answer sheets, blurred scans, inexplicable marks, collapsing portals, and a growing sense that the institutions running some of the country’s most consequential examinations no longer fully understand the systems they are rolling out.
