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CBSE 2008 Results

Its the later half of May, and its time for lakhs of students of 10th and 12th standard to start worrying about how they would fare in the soon-to-be-announced CBSE results. The official result website of CBSE currently doesn’t list any official date, but we all know that the result is to be expected soon; first for XIIth class, then Xth.

Talking about the CBSE website, as a usual feature they have their ‘register by email‘ service which allows you to register your roll number beforehand with CBSE, and they promise to send you your result on time if their website is down due to heavy traffic (which is usually the case).

Now those people who have used this service would know that their emails reach them a day or two late, usually when everything is over, people (read relatives) have called you asking about your result, and you are either partying - or sulking alone in the dark on a rocking chair. The reason for this delay in delivery is that usually spammers registered thousands of fake email ids for result delivery on the CBSE website, and this effect coupled with the load on their server resulted in the time delay.

NIC (National Informatics Centre), the Indian government’s biggest IT organisation, is responsible for maintaining this result website. What surprises me is that they never noticed this problem for so many years. This year, however, they seem to have got a sane person on their crew, who asked them to add the simplest way to combat spam and flooding to their website - CAPTCHA.

What does this mean to you? Obviously, you can expect to get your results earlier than usual this time.

UPDATE: CBSE has announced the dates for the CBSE 2008 Board Examination results for Class XII. Read more here- CBSE Board Exams 2008 Dates Announced

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