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How to Check OMR Answer Sheet with OMR Software Technology

Updated: Jun 8, 2019

With digital revolution, schools, colleges and other educational institutes are enhancing their systems and reducing the efforts required to work manually. Earlier bundles of sheets were checked manually and lots of time was devoted. Therefore, manually evaluation resulted to error and the students had to suffer a lot and had to wait long for result. In order to reduce the human error occurred while checking the answer sheet OMR technology was introduced.


OMR software technology has proven boon to the educational sector as teachers and faculties got relief of huge number of bundles to be evaluated manually. And they are now able to focus on the other works and can focus delivering the class in best way. With the help of OMR software, the answer sheet is evaluated within a minutes. But before evaluating the OMR sheet, collect the answer sheet first from the students and then place it in the scanner. To complete the scanning process a scanner is required; and the best thing of this software is that it supports any scanner. May it either be ADF scanner or flatbed scanner. Other scanners like cannon scanner, fujitsu scanner can also be used with this software. These scanners scan thousands of sheet and save it in the folder.

Once the scanning process is completed, the software is directed the path as to where the scanned OMR answer sheet is stored. The software pulls the scanned sheet from the specified folder as directed and then reads the sheet. The software reads either the bubble marked or lines or tick marked or shaded mark from the answer sheet. And then compare the answers of the student with the answer key. The software after completion of reading each and every answer sheet provides a consolidated result.


OMR sheet is designed for conducting objective exams and the sheet contains index point on all the four corners that makes the software read the sheet easily. But while filling the answer sheet special care must be taken in order to avoid any rejection. In case, if the sheet is not completely filled or half-filled it will not be read by the software. Also it is very important to follow the instruction like one must use blue or black ballpoint pen. Do not use pencil unless specified.


The result generated consists of total scores, rank, and section – wise report as well as percentage of the student. In order to generate the result, there is an option available to select the desired field which one want to reflect in the result or various fields can be clubbed under one header. Another significant feature is that report can be generated in any format.


Conclusion

Optical mark reader software is useful for various competitive exams too where a large number of candidates appear for the examination. The software holds the capacity to read the thousands of answer sheet in a minute and provides accurate result. It is the fastest and efficient way of checking the answer sheet. The student no longer has to wait a month for the results. The result generated through this software is error free.



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