(i) The Board may use multiple sets of question papers for the same examination at the samecentre / examination hall if so considered desirable.

(ii) The Paper setters, Moderators, Secrecy Officers, Head Examiners, Examiners etc. shall be appointed by the Chairman in accordance with the provisions contained in the Regulations and these bye-laws; provided that, notwithstanding anything contained in byelaws 47 to 55, the Chairman shall have the power to appoint persons in relaxation of the provisions of these byelaws for reasons to be recorded.

(iii) No person shall be appointed to act as a Paper setter, Moderator, Chief Secrecy Officer,Secrecy Officer, Head Examiner and Coordinator whose 'NEAR RELATION' is appearing or has appeared at an examination conducted by the Board in that year. For this purpose 'NEAR RELATION' shall mean and include wife/husband, sons and daughters and members of their family; nephew, niece or similar relations of wife/husband.

(I)  A paper setter shall :

(i) have a post graduate degree in the concerned subject or allied subject.

(ii) have a minimum of ten years' experience of teaching the concerned subject at Secondary/Senior Secondary/higher education level; or persons working in the State/National level education agencies set up by the Govt. and are actually involved in the organisation of inservice training programme or research/development of study materials for the Secondary/Senior Secondary students/teachers.

Provided that the Chairman may also appoint other persons in the profession related to the subject as Paper setter in that subject if in the opinion of the Chairman such appointment is desirable.

(iii) Every person appointed as Paper Setter shall be required to furnish a declaration in the form as may be prescribed by the Chairman, inter alia, stating that:

(a) he/she has not written or revised a guide-book, help-book, key or similar other matter, with whatsoever name, relating to the subject;

(b) he/she has not been engaging himself/herself in private tuitions and/or coaching at private institutions or carrying out similar other work;

(c) none of his/her relations mentioned in these bye-laws is appearing in the Board's examinations in that year.

II)    Qualifications of Moderators :

The persons appointed as Moderators:

(a) shall be a person, other than the Paper setter; and

(b) shall possess the qualifications prescribed for Paper setters under bye-laws
48 (A) (I) (i) to (iii).

(i) Moderation of question papers may be undertaken by a team of Moderators or individual Moderator as may be decided by the Chairman.

(ii) Paper setters while setting the question papers and Moderators while moderating the question papers, shall ensure that all sets of question papers are comparable, as far as possible, with regard to the concepts tested, cognitive operation required, the scope of the answer, difficulty level, time limit and conformity with the syllabus.

(iii) The Moderator/team of Moderators may also be required to prepare additional sets of question papers as per instructions/directions given by the Board.

(iv) The Paper setters as well as Moderators shall :

(a) ensure that each question paper has been set according to the syllabus of the subject, blue print, design and text books/recommended books;

(b) prepare a comprehensive marking scheme for each question paper, giving expected answers, value points and distribution of marks;

(c) workout themselves the solution to the questions particularly the numerical questions;

(d) mention against each question approximate time that may be required for answering the question by an average student who has carefully studied the course and has prepared for the examination methodically;

(e) ensure that no question is erroneously or ambiguously worded, leading to an interpretation different from the question intends to convey. (Each question should linguistically be unambiguous, clear, accurate and free from all limitations);

(f) respectively set and moderate the question paper strictly in accordance with the unit wise weightage given in a curriculum of the subject, keeping the variations of the marks, if any, under different sub-units at the minimum;

(g) furnish a certificate that the provisions of sub-clauses (ii) and (iv) have been complied with.

(a) No person shall be appointed as a Paper setter/Moderator:

(i) if he/she has written a guide-book, help-book, key or any similar matter, with whatsoever name, relating to the subject;

(ii) if he/she has been or is engaging himself/herself in private tuitions and is coaching at private institutions or carrying out similar other activity.

(b) Where the Chairman is satisfied that a Paper Setter/Moderator/Head Examiner/ Examiner/ Coordinator :

(i) is unable to perform the work or has not performed the work of the desired standard/quality; or

(ii) has not been able to conform to the directions of the Board; or

(iii) is suspected to have engaged himself/herself in the activities defying the trust reposed (such as leakage of question papers etc.) and/or in such activities which are unethical, unacademic or undesirable; or

(iv) has furnished false declaration or has concealed facts.

(a) cancel his/her appointment as Paper setter/Moderator/Head Examiner/Examiner/Coordinator;
and/or

(b) disqualify him/her from all or some of the remunerative work of the Board for a specified period or permanently; and/or

(c) forfeit/reduce remuneration payable to him/her; or

(d) take any other action;

as deemed appropriate by him/her in the circumstances of the case.

The Controller of Examinations, with the approval of the Chairman, shall issue detailed instructions for all examinations work (including Paper setters/Moderators/Head Examiners/ Examiners/Coordinators) in conformity with these bye-laws;

Provided that if any emergency arises out of the administrative business or otherwise, which, in the opinion of the  Chairman require instructions/directions in deviation of these bye-laws, the Chairman may order issuance of such instructions/directions as he/she may deem necessary but the same shall be reported to the appropriate Committees/Governing Body in their next meeting.

(E) (i) All question papers shall be in the exclusive custody of the Controller of Examinations and other officers as may be identified by the Chairman.

(ii) All copy rights in respect of Question Paper set by the Paper Setter and subsequently moderated by the Moderator(s) shall vest with the Board.

(i) All answer books from examination centres shall be reecived by the concerned RegionalOfficer or by an officer identified and recommended by the Controller of Examinations and approved by the Chairman.

(ii) All answer books shall be deemed as confidential document and no person(s) other than identified by the Controller of Examinations/Chairman shall be permitted to handle the same.

(iii) All the answer books received from the examination centres in real roll numbers of the candidate shall be converted into fictitious numbers.

(iv) The conversion of real numbers to fictitious numbers will be carried out by a team of Secrecy Officers with the overall control of a Chief Secrecy Officer.

(i) The Chairman shall appoint a Professor or a Principal of a College or Reader/Senior Lecturer of a college or such other person of integrity, honesty and experience as Chief Secrecy Officer for an examination of the Board at Delhi and at Regional levels.

(ii) Each Chief Secrecy Officer will identify his/her own team of persons who will carry out the work under his/her guidance. Such persons shall not be below the rank of lecturer in Colleges.

(iii) The Chief Secrecy Officer and his/her team shall undertake to maintain the confidentiality of the assignment given to them.

(iv) No person whose ward or near relative is appearing in any given examination of the Board shall work as a Secrecy Officer.

(v) Each Chief Secrecy Officer and Secrecy Officer shall be paid remuneration for their work on such rates as approved by Board from time to time.

(i) All answer books bearing fictitious roll numbers shall be evaluated by approved examiners.

(ii) The Board, under normal conditions, shall get the answer books evaluated at such cities and centres, identified by the Chairman from time to time.

(iii) Normally the spot evaluation centres shall be situated in schools affiliated to the Board.

(iv) Under special circumstances the answer books may be evaluated by examiners at their
residences.

(i) A detailed marking scheme shall be prepared for each question paper by the paper setter alongwith the question paper.

(ii) The marking scheme shall indicate value points in respect of each answer and the award to be assigned for each of the value points.

(iii) The original marking scheme may be amended/modified by a group of Head Examiners on the basis of evaluation of sample answer scripts.

(i) The Chairman shall appoint a senior person in the rank of Principal, Vice-Principal, Post Graduate Teacher of an affiliated school or a lecturer in a college as Head Examiner for a subject/paper.

(ii) The Head Examiner shall be responsible for ensuring uniform evaluation of answer books as per the final marking scheme. The Head Examiner shall monitor the evaluation and ensure strict implementation of the marking scheme.

(iii) The Head Examiner shall bring to the notice of the Controller of Examinations, discrepancies, anomalies and suspected use of unfairmeans identified during the course of evaluation.

(iv) The Head Examiner shall report to the Controller of Examinations in writing the names of such examiners who have not carried out the instructions of the Board or have not maintained punctuality or have not observed the code of conduct for such actions as may be deemed fit by the Board.

(v) No person whose ward or relation or the ward of whose near relation is appearing in the
examination shall be appointed as Head Examiner.

(vi) The Head Examiner shall be the custodian of all answer books entrusted to him/her for
evaluation at the evaluation centre and shall provide such physical and administrative facilities
as are necessary to ensure quick, smooth and fair conduct of evaluation.

(vii) The Head Examiner shall treat all information provided to him/her and all materials supplied to
him /her as strictly confidential, and at no stage divulge directly or indirectly any such information
to any person other than those authorised by the Board.

(viii) One Head Examiner shall be appointed for each set of ten to fifteen examiners.

(i) Additional Head Examiner shall be appointed by the Head Examiner if the approved number of examiners is more than five on any day of evaluation. He /she shall assist the Head Examiner in discharging his/her duties and shall also discharge duties as assigned by the Board from time to time.

(ii) A PGT in the same subject with not less than five years experience is eligible to be appointed as AHE for class XII and a TGT having not less that five years experience in the same subject is eligible to be appointed as AHE for class X.

(iii) Not with standing anything contained in the rule 54(i) and (ii), the Chairman shall have the powers to appoint Additional Head Examiner(s) in relaxation of the provisions of these Bye Laws for reasons to be recorded.

(i) The Head of the affiliated institutions shall recommend, every year, the names of teachers in their respective institutions, eligible for appointment as an Examiner in accordance with the provisions of these bye-laws