AIBE 2016 results delayed nth time: 'There are 40,000 sheets, It takes time,' shouts official bar exam hotline

Tuesday, 17 May 2016 By Legally India Bar, Bench & Litigation

![“Too many answer sheets!!!” shouts bar exam hotline to justify result delay](https://www.legallyindia.com/images/prachishrivastava/o2bt2vxc_thumb.jpg “Too many answer sheets!!!” shouts bar exam hotlines to justify result delay”)The results to the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) 9 will be out on or before 20 May, as each candidate’s answer sheet now finally stands evaluated, assured the Bar Council of India (BCI) today following two missed official deadlines.

The BCI official in charge of the bar exam department told Legally India today that now that all of the answer sheets have been evaluated there is no reason for delaying the results beyond this week.

Legally India contacted the official bar exam hotline earlier today. On being asked for the timeline of the AIBE IX results an official said that because around 40,000 answer sheets were to be evaluated, the result was taking time.

The BCI official Legally India spoke to said that the official hotline (as available on the AIBE website) connects to the BCI’s AIBE contractor ITES Horizon.

AIBE answer sheets are not evaluated manually because they are in the Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) form. Computers evaluate whether the one option marked on the sheet, as an answer, out of four options, matches with the correct option fed into the system.

The wait for the AIBE IX results is in its eleventh week. It took six weeks for the BCI to publish the AIBE VIII results.

The date of this AIBE was postponed by 83 days to 6 March due to a website malfunction by AIBE contractor ITES Horizon Pvt Ltd, whose contract was extended quietly late last year despite consistent delays and underperformance by the contractor (as well as serious question marks surrounding the allocation of the contract to the company in light of more qualified and more competitively priced bidders).

Full disclosure: BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has sent a defamation legal notice to Legally India regarding stories published pointing out the problems with the AIBE Legally India in its response had denied defaming the BCI or its chairman since all reports were based on facts.

Comments

not rocket science 17 May 2016, 09:03

+6 -0

It has taken ITES 72 days to evaluate 40,000 sheets. OMR scanners typically correct at a rate of 500 sheets in 10 minutes. It should have taken ITES 800 minutes to evaluate all the sheets. I wonder what is amiss !

FYI 17 May 2016, 10:54

+3 -0

BCI is run by a bunch of clowns and it should be disbanded. AIBE should be scrapped.

Legalwin 17 May 2016, 11:29

+5 -0

Hi
As of date Certificate of Practice for AIBE VIII has not been issued.
It is close to 12 months since AIBE VIII was conducted and there is no sight of Certificate of Practice being issued.
Sad State of Affairs.
We have noticed that AIBE has the practice of delaying Certificate of Practice almost consistently ever since AIBE was announced.
It shows the scant regard for AIBE by BCI

Babaji 17 May 2016, 11:37

+4 -0

AIBE and BCI folks, if you are reading this, you people are an anathema to the legal profession and absolutely incompetent to even conduct an exam, leave alone alleviating the quality of the legal profession.

Guest 17 May 2016, 14:00

+2 -0

As bar examination officer's comment stated above is not acceptable because it is absolutely baseless and unjustified. UPSC,SSC and other educational board conduct many exam in which large amount of student appeared and they declared the result on time. Hence 40,000 answer sheets of objective type question whose answer key is already available to the governing body of examination. If AIBE is not capable to conduct examination timely and properly as well as the result is not declared at given time , so why they are conducting the unnecessary and illegal examination .This examination is not faced or appeared by all earlier advocate and judge in India, so why this examination is necessary to judge the ability of any advocate
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By KIRAN RAi

Rinku 18 May 2016, 12:10

they are shame for the country. they are not picking the phone and 2nd official deadline missed by them. they should be sacked for harassing the candidates

Guest 19 May 2016, 10:08

+1 -0

I THINK BCI IS NOT CAPABLE TO MANAGE THINGS....GOVERNMENT SHOULD THINK ALTERNATE OF BCI. THEY ARE INCAPABLE...

Guest 19 May 2016, 12:51

+0 -0

Are the results coming out tomorrow?

Anonymous L 19 May 2016, 13:48

What will solve this is a petition to the Law Minister through change.org !

Please create one ! 20 May 2016, 07:04

We will of course support you - I hope the law minister gives a damn. Would this be a deficiency of service under consumer law ? If so perhaps we can all get our fees back too ?

New 20 May 2016, 07:52

It's a joke. Incompetency can't be hidden with such frivolous reasons.

Confused Zeus Says . . 20 May 2016, 10:28

I think the BCI Chairman is individually correcting each answer sheet. There are 40,000 answer sheets!! Give him some time.

Babaji 20 May 2016, 13:07

Check the website. There is a column for IX AIBE Result. Not working again

The results are out ! 20 May 2016, 13:18

....and we are all fools

Guest 20 May 2016, 13:23

Yes. Now that the link is finally up for AIBE IX results, it direct to you AIBE VIII results. ITES Horizon and BCI, brilliantly done. The least you can do with all the money you guys are making, is return our fees, because clearly this exams means nothing to you.

ITes over the horizon 20 May 2016, 13:55

Kian, perhaps getting a the coverage to focus more on ITES might help pressure them into speeding things up ? They seem to be most unconcerned by reports that only highlight the BCI's failings.

ppp 20 May 2016, 13:56

RESULT Aibe 9 .. but when you click it is Result aibe 8.. Please dont play with students... BCI is a complete Disaster.

GLC Mumbai 20 May 2016, 14:38

Manan Kumar Mishra is either corrupt or stupid in giving the contract to ncompetent ITES Horizon systems. Clearly, the computer programmers at ITES are incompetent and don't know how to properly link an SQL database to a website portal. This was observed during the registration stage, and now at the results stage as well. Mishra has taken kickbacks in the award of the Exam Contract to incompetent ITES Horizon. He and the staff at ITES should be fortwith arrested for corruption.

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