Sindh’s education boards will soon start using e-marking, scanning, and QR code software for matric and intermediate exams.

The heads of 29 educational boards from around the nation, together with representatives from the Inter-Board Committee of Chairmen (IBCC), will be present during the official introduction of the e-marking system on December 4 in Karachi.

Software pertaining to e-marking, scanning, barcodes, QR codes, and marking criteria will be sent to the Sindh educational boards by the Federal Education Board for use in the 2026 exams.

To supervise the digitization of results and the e-marking procedure for matriculation and intermediate levels in Sindh, a high-level committee called Digitization and Technology Implementation in Education Boards has also been established. Abbas Baloch, the secretary of the Department of Universities and Boards, sent out the committee's notification.

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

Fakir Muhammad Lakho, head of the Karachi Higher Secondary Education Board, told The Express Tribune that they urged the federal government to support e-marking, arguing that if it can fund PhD scholarships, it can also trust them with this system.

Following this agreement, the Sindh educational boards will receive access to the complete e-marking system from the IBCC. The 2026 yearly exams for intermediate students in the pre-engineering and pre-medical disciplines will mark the start of e-marking. Every exam paper will have a QR code that can be scanned, and various teachers will be in charge of marking different portions of the same paper.

Lakho continued, "No teacher will mark more than one question from the same paper," guaranteeing that every paper is evaluated by several teachers.

In addition, the committee will work with IBCC to establish online enrollment, digital results processing, e-marking, and certificate verification systems in accordance with its mandate. In order to facilitate seamless integration into the educational environment, the committee is required to submit its recommendations on these systems to the government.

Teams from each of Sindh's educational boards will attend training sessions in Islamabad next week with an emphasis on e-marking and capacity building, according to Dr. Ghulam Ali Mallah, Executive Director of IBCC. Sindh's boards will receive the e-marking software required to carry out the digitalization process after this training.