How handwriting is marked
Most AI evaluation runs your photographed copy through OCR and marks the text that comes out the other side. That step throws away everything a real examiner reacts to: the margin you kept or didn't, the keywords you underlined, the headings that made your structure findable, the flowchart that saved you sixty words — and how legible any of it was at the end of three hours.
We don't transcribe your copy. The pages go to the examiner as pages, and presentation is scored from what is actually on them.
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OCR preserves words. It discards layout, emphasis, spatial structure and every non-text mark you made. In Mains those are worth real marks: presentation is one of the six parameters a human examiner carries, and diagrams, maps and flowcharts earn credit in geography, disaster management and economy that no transcription can represent. An evaluator that only ever sees your text cannot tell a well-presented script from a wall of words with the same content.
Where a passage genuinely cannot be read, we say so and mark it unread rather than inventing a plausible sentence. That is the honest behaviour and the useful one: an examiner in the hall would do exactly the same, and knowing which passages failed to survive your own handwriting is feedback you can act on before the exam.
If the pages are too dark, blurred or cropped to mark fairly, the submission is stopped before any credit is spent — there is deliberately no override. Marking what we cannot read would produce a number with nothing behind it.
How strictly we mark
Bands are anchored to real outcomes — the All-India topper scored 86/250 in a GS paper. A platform that hands you 8/10 is selling comfort and costing you a year.
Questions asked straight
Yes, where the subject rewards them. A labelled sketch in a geography or disaster-management answer earns credit; a decorative map in a polity answer costs you time and reads as padding. The evaluation judges which one you drew.
Nobody is failed for untidy handwriting, but an answer that is expensive to read loses the benefit of the doubt — an examiner spends about ninety seconds on it. Legibility, margins and paragraphing are scored under presentation, and you are told specifically what made your page harder to read.
Up to twelve, in page order, compressed on your device before they leave it. PDFs work too. A typed answer is also fine — presentation is then scored on paragraphing and organisation only, and the feedback says so.