95.53% students pass class XI exams

A TOTAL OF 3,46,504 STUDENTS HAD ENROLLED FOR THE CLASS 11 BOARD EXAMINATION

RANCHI: Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) on Saturday declared the results of class XI examinations with 95.53% students clearing them. JAC chairman Arvind Prasad Singh announced the results at the JAC office.

A total of 3,46,504 students had enrolled for the class 11 examination, of which 3,39,061 took the examination and 3,23,924 students cleared them . As many as 1,70,372 boys and 1,68,689 girl students had appeared for the examinations. The boys’ pass percentage was 95.45%, while 95.61% girls have passed the Jharkhand board class 11 exams.

JAC officials said the examinations were conducted between March 5 and 7 and the examinations were conducted for five subjects.

The examinations were conducted on OMR sheets and the evaluation was computerized.

Students of Jharkhand’s Bokaro district topped the exam with the district registering a 97.47% pass percentage, followed by Simdega and Hazaribag with 97.43% and 97.08% pass percentages respectively.

Chatra recorded the poorest pass percentage at 92.88%.

JAC had declared the results of classes 8 and 9 in June.

Notably, over 15 lakh students studying in classes5 to 7 have been promoted to higher classes without any examinations.

The final examinations of these classes, which were scheduled from March 30, had been cancelled in wake of the Covid-19-triggered lockdown.