PRAYAGRAJ, March 9 -- The Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UP Board) has instructed High School and Intermediate examiners to adopt step marking while evaluating Mathematics and Science answer sheets and to ensure that answers written on the left-hand pages are also properly assessed.

UP Board secretary Bhagwati Singh has also directed examiners to check language errors only in language subjects and adopt a lenient approach while evaluating other subjects.

Step marking is an evaluation method commonly used by CBSE and several other boards, in which partial credit is awarded for each correct step, formula, or method used in solving a problem, rather than assessing only the final answer. The system encourages accuracy in problem-...