PSEB Class 12 results: Nearly 91% students pass, govt schools shine
Girls outshine boys again; Rupnagar district is top performer
MOHALI: Punjab School Education Board’s (PSEB) Class 12 result that was declared on Tuesday is one for the annals as 90.98% students cleared the exam, the highest since the board’s inception in 1970.
Keeping up with the trend, this year too girls outshone boys with an average pass percentage of 94.83% while the latter scored 90.99%.
Board chairperson Krishan Kumar said it is for the first time that the board has recorded a pass percentage of 90.98%.
“Even government schools have boasted of a high pass percentage of 94.32% in the last five decades,” he said.
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the board conducted 76 exams out of 149 exams, while 73 exams were cancelled.
School education minister Vijay Inder Singla said this year’s results were based on the best performing subjects formula.
Rupnagar topped the state with a pass percentage of 96.93%, while Barnala came in last with an 84.69% pass percentage.
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS PERFORMED BETTER
The minister said for the second consecutive year, government schools had performed better than affiliated and associated schools in the terms of pass percentage as 94.32% students of government schools cleared the exams, while 91.84% and 87.04%
students of affiliated and associated schools managed to get promoted for higher studies.
He said 92.77% regular students had excelled in the exams.
In 2017, the pass percentage of
Class 12 was below 63%. A slight improvement of 65.97% was witnessed in 2018.
In 2019, 86.41% students passed, which was notably higher than previous years. Also, the pass percentage of students belonging to rural areas was higher than those in urban areas at 93.39% and 91.96%, respectively.
This year, 68.26% students of the open-school category also passed the Class 12 exams.
‘BEST PERFORMING SUBJECTS’ FORMULA
Due to the cancellation of exams, PSEB adopted ‘best-performing subjects’ formula.
If a student appeared in exams for four subjects, then the average of the best three subjects will be awarded to him in the subjects, for which exams were cancelled.
The same formula has been implemented for those students who had appeared in exams for division improvement in more than one subject.
The last chance compartment students have been promoted on the basis of average of already passed subjects.
The minister said the results of those students who had applied for improvement or additional subject in only one subject has not been declared as they will be given another chance to appear once the situation becomes normal.