u/No_Cauliflower7923

Got 1570 SAT. Got into Rutgers. Embry-Riddle. Clemson. WPI. RIT.

And I'm still sitting and thinking about my life, which is getting F*** over by CBSE coz they can't do a proper checking, can't make a proper website, and after f***** lakhs of students' future, no one is accountable for anything.

CBSE opened its answer sheet portal. It crashed. Scans were blurry. Maintenance for hours. Traffic, they had MONTHS to prepare for.

BLUNDER by CBSE is delaying my loan, my visa, my entire Fall 2026 plan.

We students get zero tolerance if they miss deadlines, 75% attendance, 75% marks. When you do all still somehow, you need to fight with this broken system, and CBSE gets zero consequences for failing us.

We think marks are enough? Nah. We also need to fight a system that genuinely does not care if you make it or not.

The system isn't broken by accident. It's just never been fixed because nobody faces consequences for failing us.

SORRY but all this makes me feel somewhere i was loser, but maybe not.

FAAH CBSE

I decided to inspect the source code of CBSE’s official website today. This is the portal that serves 40 lakh students every year.

What I saw wasn’t just outdated it was archaeological.

The DOCTYPE is <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> that’s HTML 4.01 from 1999. Most students using the site weren’t even born then.
Right below it: <meta name="description" content="Online Education template Based on HTML5."> they never even bothered to change the template placeholder text.
Keywords meta still says: “online cources” (yes, spelled wrong), “edulab”, and “best education template”. This is clearly a cheap ThemeForest template they bought years ago and never cleaned up. Google has been indexing this garbage for a decade.

There’s a JavaScript function called showSlides() defined in the <head> with 20+ lines of slideshow code… that is never called anywhere on the page. Dead code sitting there for years.

There’s an entire section wrapped in <div style="width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; height: 0px;"> — completely invisible and pointless.

The entire navigation menu (30+ tiles) is copy-pasted twice once for desktop, once for mobile because proper responsive design was apparently too much work. The two versions are already out of sync (different award years).

This isn’t a website. This is sedimentary rock. You can literally date the layers:

1999: HTML 4.01
~2001: language="javascript" attribute
~2015: Cheap template with typos still intact
Later years: Bootstrap slapped on top, multiple jQuery versions, endless appended notices, commented-out code everywhere because nobody dares delete anything.

And this is the same organization running OSM (On-Screen Marking), handling answer sheet scanning, re-evaluation, and the futures of millions of students.

Since results came out, we’ve seen:

Portals crashing under the expected load
Payment gateways failing during re-evaluation windows
Blurry/unreadable scanned answer sheets that students paid for
Last-minute “extensions” via circulars

The terrible public website isn’t the disease. It’s a symptom of zero accountability, no proper ownership, and a “jitna bhi kaam chalega” culture.

Students aren’t wrong to be furious. You studied for months under immense pressure, and now you’re fighting with broken systems and blurry PDFs while deadlines tick.

If you're a student going through this right now, you’re not alone.

If you're a developer, journalist, or policymaker, this deserves real scrutiny.

This is how a national education board treats the students it’s supposed to serve.

Marks won't save you. The system will still find a way to screw you.

I looked at CBSE’s official website source code. What I found is embarrassing and actually concerning.