India, May 29 -- Videos of principals from different schools went viral on Friday morning, after the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)'s regional offices circulated toolkits for them to defend the On-Screen Marking (OSM)system, an evaluation process for Class 12 board exams that recently sparked a controversy.

What caught the eye of the social media was the almost identical language used by the principals in their video messages.

As stated in an earlier HT report, the CBSE's regional offices' document, titled "Material for Principals", directed principals to defend the marking system, included scripts of what to read out.

Several of the principals used strikingly similar language - describing the OSM system as "transparent", ...