Your board’s paper, not somebody else’s.

There is no such thing as a generic state-board paper. MP Board, Bihar Board, UP Board, Maharashtra, Rajasthan — different patterns, different weightings, and often a different language on the page.

Why the scheme has to come from the paper

Tools built around a fixed CBSE-shaped template quietly force every paper into that shape. For a state-board centre that is the wrong answer twice over: the question pattern is not CBSE’s, and the marking conventions are not either.

We derive the marking scheme from your question paper — what each question carries and what a full answer needs — so a Bihar Board paper is marked as a Bihar Board paper. You correct anything read wrong, once, and it applies to the whole batch.

Hindi-medium handwriting

Handwritten Devanagari is read, not transliterated and guessed at. This matters in practice more than it sounds: a large share of state-board centres run Hindi-medium sections alongside English-medium ones, often with the same teacher marking both, and a tool that handles only one of them solves half a problem.

Mixed answers — a Hindi explanation with English technical terms, which is how most students actually write science — are normal input, not an edge case.

This page is also available in Hindi.

Volume, which is usually the real constraint

State-board centres tend to run larger sections than CBSE coaching batches, and that changes the practical advice rather than the software. Forty students photographing their own sheets works. Two hundred students writing a full-length paper needs a sheet-feed scanner and a staff member for an hour, and we would rather say that up front than sell you a workflow that collapses in week two.

What stays the same whatever the board

• Step marks on derivations and numericals, with error carried forward.
• Every mark quotes the words on the sheet that earned it.
• Anything unreadable is handed back with the page named, never marked around.
• Nothing reaches a student until the teacher approves it.