91% pass Class 10 boards, girls do better than boys once again
NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Wednesday released Class 10 examination results with an overall pass percentage of 91.46%, recording a marginal improvement over last year’s figure, even as the board did not announce a merit list due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Out of the 1,873,015 students who appeared for the Class 10 examination this year, 1,713,121 students cleared the test across 20,837 schools in the country, with the overall pass percentage 0.36 percentage points higher than last year. Of these, 150,198 students received “compartment” this year compared to 138,705 last year.
Girls performed better than boys, with 93.31% of them being promoted as compared to 90.14% boys across the country.
About 184,358 students scored above 90% and 41,804 above 95% -- 18% and 26.98% lower than last year’s figures.
CBSE’s controller of examination Sanyam Bhardwaj said the increase in the number of ‘compartments’ could be due to the increase in the number of students who took the test this year. “There seems to be no specific reason behind the dip, Bhardwaj said, adding: “One possible reason could be the stress due to the Covid-19 pandemic...”
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, CBSE postponed all Class 10 and Class 12 exams scheduled between March 19 and March 21 earlier this year.
THE CBSE DID NOT ANNOUNCE A MERIT LIST THIS YEAR DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS DISEASE PANDEMIC
PANCHKULA: The Panchkula region comprising the states of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh has bagged the 6th position in the country in terms of pass percentage at 94.3% in Class 10 Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) exams, the result of which were declared on Wednesday. The Chandigarh region comprising UT Ladakh, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, is at 9th position with 91.8%.
In 2019, when the two regions – Panchkula and Chandigarh – were combined, the pass percentage was 93.7%. This year, both the regions have scored better than the national overall pass percentage (full subjects) of 91.4%. Eight cases of cheating and unfair means were caught from the Panchkula region and seven from the Chandigarh region.
The Chandigarh region also recorded higher number of compartments at 7.7% (9,601) over 5.3% (7,872) in the Panchkula region. Just like the Class 12 results, girls continued to perform better in CBSE Class 10 results. In Panchkula region, 97% girls passed against the pass percentage of 93% of boys. In Chandigarh 95% girls passed against 90% of boys.
J&K TOP PERFORMER
In the two regions, Jammu and Kashmir scored the maximum pass percentage of 98.3%, followed by Himachal Pradesh 96.9%. Haryana and Punjab got 3rd and 4th positions with 94% and 92.1% respectively. In UT Chandigarh, 86.2% of candidates passes. UT Ladakh had the lowest pass percentage in the region at 86%.
In Panchkula region, KVS schools performed better with 99.7 pass percentage. It was followed by Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) with 98.7%. Then come other independent schools. In Chandigarh region, again KVS were ahead with 99.1% pass percentage, and it was followed by JNV with 98.9 %. Independent schools came at third position with 92.8% and it was followed by 87.9% pass percentage of government-aided institutes. The pass percentage of government schools was 77.3%.