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Secondary Exam Results In India Mean An SMS Flood

syrinje writes "The Times of India reported that Indian high-school seniors who took the exams conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education sent more than a Million SMS messages within a 11 hour period to query the result database and receive detailed examination results. In addition making the results available to cellphone users, the CBSE has also published the results online at a dedicated web-site . Since the results were announced on the weekend, students would otherwise have had to wait for Monday to get their results from their schools. A spokesperson for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited , one of the operators involved in setting up the SMS result system estimated that they handled 100,000 messages per hour during the day on Sunday and said that "There was no problem in the network due to the heavy SMS traffic and we were able to give subjectwise marks to the students"."

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  1. Just imagine the traffic... by Advocadus+Diaboli · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...if you could get the answers for the exam by SMS during the exam. :-)

  2. Can your Indian beat my Indian? by Vertex+Operator · · Score: 5, Funny

    Go to

    http://cbseresults.nic.in/class12/cbse12.htm

    Enter 1200003

    GRADE
    301 ENGLISH CORE 087 A1
    041 MATHEMATICS 095 A1
    042 PHYSICS 097 A1
    043 CHEMISTRY 095 A1
    044 BIOLOGY 097 A1
    500 WORK EXPERIENCE --- A2
    502 PHY & HEALTH EDUCA --- A2
    503 GENERAL STUDIES --- A2

    Can anyone find another Indian that beats my
    Indian?

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