BEST EVER STRIKE RATE IN CBSE’S CLASS 10 RESULTS
NEW DELHI: A record 99.04% of tenth graders cleared their exams, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced on Tuesday, in a trend similar to what was seen for twelfth graders after both board assessments were held on the basis of previous assessments in a pandemic year.
The pass percentage was 7.58 percentage points higher than the previous academic year, when the Class 10 exams were largely held as usual except for in a few subjects before the country entered the first lockdown due to Covid-19.
The pass percentage for Class 12 was 99.37% this year. Class 10 students were evaluated on the basis of their performances in unit tests, mid-term/half-yearly exams, and pre-board exams.
NEW DELHI: A record 99.04% of tenth graders cleared their exams, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced on Tuesday, in a trend similar to what was seen for twelfth graders after both board assessments were held on the basis of previous assessments in a pandemic year.
The pass percentage was 7.58 percentage points higher than the previous academic year, when the Class 10 exams were largely held as usual except for in a few subjects before the country entered the first lockdown due to Covid-19.
The pass percentage for Class 12 was 99.37% this year.
Class 10 students were evaluated on the basis of their performances in unit tests, midterm/half-yearly exams, and the pre-board examinations. Like last year, the board has not announced a merit list this year.
The board declared the results of 2,097,128 out of the 2,113,767 regular students who appeared for the examination this year. Of these, 99.04% cleared it.
As many as 200,962 and 57,824 students scored above 90% and 95% marks, respectively, higher than last year’s
tally of 184,358 and 41,804 students scoring in that range.
To check “inflation of marks”, CBSE had asked schools to keep their overall passing percentage in line with their best performance in Class 10 final exams in the last three years. The year they selected would be considered a reference year, and the schools were also required to ensure the overall average marks this year did not exceed the overall average marks in the reference year.
The result of around 16,639 students was yet to be processed, officials said.
CBSE controller of examinations, Sanyam Bhardwaj said, the schools of these students “either did not fulfil the required criteria or did not provide the required information in these cases”.
“The board has opened the online portal for these schools. Regional officers have started working on it. We will declare the results of these students at the earliest,” he said.
On the increase in pass percentage, he said, “The increase in the overall pass percentage is because schools moderate the marks by +2 or -2 in accordance with their best percentage in the last three years. So the best of all the schools have increased the overall pass percentage.”
The overall pass percentage of Delhi has increased to 98.27% from last year’s 85.86%. The overall pass percentage of government schools in Delhi rose to 97.52% from last year’s 82.61%. Among private schools, this number increased from 90.2% last year to 99.58% this year.
THE PASS PERCENTAGE IS 7.7 PERCENTAGE POINTS HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR, WHEN THE EXAMS WERE LARGELY HELD AS USUAL