LUCKNOW, May 21 -- Lucknow University (LU) on Thursday announced a number of steps aimed at ensuring smooth, fair, and error-free evaluation of answer sheets of the university's upcoming and ongoing examinations.

The reforms include step marking, appointments head deputy head examiners and re-checking at least 5% of the copies. During a meeting of evaluation in-charges, vice chancellor Prof JP Saini said due to the large number of answer sheets evaluated at the university level, a lack of uniformity in marking has often been observed.

This occurs because the same question paper is checked by multiple examiners. Keeping the larger interests of students in mind, the university administration has introduced reforms in the evaluation system...