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On August 21, 2026, the Union government informed the Supreme Court that it would not consider providing grace marks to students who encountered issues with the Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) On-Screen Marking (OSM) of Class 12 answer sheets in 2026, as reported by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta. The CBSE had opened a one-week window for re-evaluation, and 1.68 lakh students had requested changes in their marks.

However, Mehta stated that granting grace marks was not feasible. Advocate Laxmikant Matadan Shukla, representing petitioner Rakesh Binjola, argued that affected students had managed to pass other entrance exams but were now facing difficulties due to insufficient marks in the Class 12 exams. Shukla expressed frustration over the short time frame of the re-evaluation window and the numerous students who did not receive their revised answer sheets.

The Supreme Court instructed the government to file an affidavit outlining the corrective actions taken after the detection of irregularities in the OSM-valued answer sheets. The petitioners were also asked to provide additional information about cases where students faced infrastructural barriers and those who completed the re-evaluation process but did not receive updated answer sheets.

The court had earlier requested a status report from the one-member probe committee led by retired IAS officer S. Radha Chauhan to identify the reasons behind the technical defects. Binjola demanded a thorough investigation into the "clear-cut irregularities" in the OSM evaluation system, which had impacted over 17 lakh students during the May 2026 Class 12 examinations.

The petition highlighted irregularities such as illegible scanning and unchecked answers, expressing concern over the decline in overall pass percentage to 85.2%, a 3.19 percentage point drop from the previous year, marking the lowest level in seven years.