Sindh boards to get e-marking, scanning, and QR code software for 2026 exams

Sindh’s educational boards are set to recieve e-marking, scanning, and QR code software for matriculation and intermediate examinations.

The official launch of e-marking system will take place on December 4 in Karachi, where heads of 29 educational boards from across the country and officials from the Inter-Board Committee of Chairmen (IBCC) will be in attendance.

The Federal Education Board will provide the Sindh educational boards with software related to e-marking, scanning, barcode, QR codes, and marking criteria, which will be used in the 2026 examinations.

A high-level committee, titled Digitization and Technology Implementation in Education Boards, has also been formed to oversee the digitalisation of results and the e-marking process for matriculation and intermediate levels in Sindh. The notification for the committee was issued by Secretary of the Department of Universities and Boards, Abbas Baloch.

The committee will include the chairman of the Karachi Intermediate Board, the chairman of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Shaheed Benazirabad, the chairman of the Sukkur Educational Board, and the additional secretary of the Department of Universities and Boards.

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The committee's convener, Fakir Muhammad Lakho, Chairman of the Karachi Higher Secondary Education Board, informed the The Express Tribune about the initiative, saying, "We convinced the federal government that if it can fund PhD scholarships for universities nationwide, why can't we be entrusted with the e-marking mechanism?"

Following this agreement, the IBCC will share the full e-marking mechanism with the Sindh educational boards. The introduction of e-marking will begin in the 2026 annual examinations for intermediate students in pre-engineering and pre-medical streams. Each exam paper will feature a QR code, which will be scanned, with different teachers responsible for marking different sections of the same paper.

"No teacher will mark more than one question from the same paper," Lakho added, ensuring that each paper undergoes multiple assessments by different educators.

Moreover, the committee, as per its terms of reference, will liaise with IBCC to implement systems for online enrolment, digital results processing, e-marking, and certificate verification. The committee is expected to present its proposals on these systems to the government to enable smooth integration into the education framework.

Executive Director of IBCC, Dr Ghulam Ali Mallah, confirmed that teams from each of Sindh’s educational boards will attend training sessions in Islamabad next week, focusing on e-marking and capacity building. Following this training, the necessary e-marking software will be provided to Sindh’s boards for implementation of the digitalisation process.