Secondary Exam Results In India Mean An SMS Flood

syrinje writes "The Times of India reported that Indian high-school seniors who took the exams conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education sent more than a Million SMS messages within a 11 hour period to query the result database and receive detailed examination results. In addition making the results available to cellphone users, the CBSE has also published the results online at a dedicated web-site . Since the results were announced on the weekend, students would otherwise have had to wait for Monday to get their results from their schools. A spokesperson for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited , one of the operators involved in setting up the SMS result system estimated that they handled 100,000 messages per hour during the day on Sunday and said that "There was no problem in the network due to the heavy SMS traffic and we were able to give subjectwise marks to the students"."

Just imagine the traffic...

[Advocadus Diaboli]

...if you could get the answers for the exam by SMS during the exam. :-)

I want it.

[mphase]

I would love a service like this for US Colleges. Currently I have to go through various problems with postcards and other bull trying to get grades sooner then a month after the semester ends. Though currently there are some online grade services but not many teachers use them so maybe I should be complaining about the lazy luddite professors.

India...

[Viceice]

There seems to be a lot of talk about India on SlashDot lately. Are the editors being outsourced there too?

Re:Results viewable by anyone...

[cujo_1111]

1234567 is the guy who will take your job...

Can your Indian beat my Indian?

[Vertex Operator]

Go to

http://cbseresults.nic.in/class12/cbse12.htm

Enter 1200003

GRADE
301 ENGLISH CORE 087 A1
041 MATHEMATICS 095 A1
042 PHYSICS 097 A1
043 CHEMISTRY 095 A1
044 BIOLOGY 097 A1
500 WORK EXPERIENCE --- A2
502 PHY & HEALTH EDUCA --- A2
503 GENERAL STUDIES --- A2

Can anyone find another Indian that beats my
Indian?

Bad mistakes

[s0ny]

According to the Herald Sun, one 17 year old student killed herself after the computers sent her the wrong sms telling her that'd she'd failed while she'd in fact past [news.com.au]. (sorry a repost because my a href didnt work properly)