NIC has been successfully publishing various examination results on the Internet for many years now. With the proliferation of Internet into Indian homes, it has been made possible for the students to check out their results in the convenience of their homes or the nearby cyber cafes. The website 'http://results.nic.in' has become a household name with the students, parents and teachers alike who are keen on checking the exam results for various education boards (CBSE, State education boards), professional entrance examinations (engineering/ medical), specialized exams like those of the CA foundation/ inter and Staff Selection Commission etc.
Like previous years, this year too, NIC had set up dedicated infrastructure to cater to the needs of anxious students. A number of dedicated servers were set-up exclusively for publishing the results. Web servers at the front end were powered with state-of-the-art software and database servers at the backend. The technology of content switching was utilized to ensure effective Load Balancing to cater to peak traffic on the servers. Staging servers were also set up to enable the various NIC state centers to upload and test the results data before they were finally published.
Results through multiple channels : WWW, IVRS, SMS, Email…!!
Interactive Voice Response System In IVRS, the caller dials a given telephone number and the computer plays the part of an operator giving out the information requested, in recorded or synthesized voice. The computer is configured to accept calls with the help of dedicated CTI (computer telephony interface) software and hardware required on the CTI server computer for their application. The calls can be placed from any standard telephone instrument.
Results through IVRS
The results of CBSE X and XII examinations were made available to the students through the IVRS facility. Results could be accessed globally by dialing phone numbers 91 - 11 - 4392800 or 91 - 11 - 4308600. There were no special charges for the service and the users had to pay the normal telephone call charges. Results (subject wise marks) were conveyed in about 30 seconds through IVRS.
Short Message Service The Short Message Service (SMS) is the technology to send and receive short text messages from one mobile phone to another mobile phone or pager. SMS was conceived as part of the Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) digital standard.
Results through SMS
Results of Class X CBSE were provided to the students through the SMS facility on the mobile phones. Although this year, the facility was given to the users of Dolphin (MTNL) mobile service, it is planned to extend it to other mobile services in future. The user had to type 'RES' followed by the Roll No. and send the message to '2001' to obtain the results. Over 25,000 students received their CBSE results through the SMS mode this year. Besides, some state level results were also provided by NIC on the SMS facility.
Results through E-mail
The anxious students were also able to receive their results in their individual mailboxes, for which they had to pre-register with our result portal. NIC provided this facility for CBSE results, CA results and some other state level results. Apart from this, complete school wise results were also sent to the various schools through email on entering the school code.
This year, NIC released over 100 results of various Academic, Entrance and Recruitment examinations on its website http://results.nic.in. The site regularly receives a huge number of hits from students all over the Country and even abroad. The CBSE results alone received over 30 million hits in a matter of few days. The rave reviews in the media and the large number of 'Thank You' messages from satisfied students bear ample testimony to NIC's successful efforts in providing fast and efficient IT services.