With DU's examination system being criticised for errors and delay, this is an initiative to put things in place. ``Over 70,000 students taking up exams in three regular bachelors and honours programmes in all three streams would need to fill in the OMR sheets in coordination with the specific subject codes we have provided to each of the papers,'' said ML Singla, dean (examinations).

Eventually, students will receive computerised marksheets. ``Introducing OMR sheets is one of the first steps in making the examination system simple and technology oriented. Looking at how this process goes, we will get the computerised marksheets, either this year or next year. These marksheets would also be redesigned as the abbreviations would be replaced by the expanded nomenclatures of the course,'' said Singla. This year, marksheets of over 2000 School of Open Learning (SOL) students got laser printed.