CBSE sees highest-ever pass percentage in Class 12
NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) recorded the highest ever pass percentage of 99.37 in this year’s class 12 results, declared on Friday, with girls outshining boys by a slender margin of 0.54%.
The pass percentage increased by over 10 percentage points against last year’s 88.78%. The difference between the pass percentage of girls and boys was nearly 6% last year.
The board has announced the results on basis of an alternate assessment policy after the exams were cancelled in view of the aggressive second wave of Covid-19.
According to the policy decided by a 13-member panel of the board, the theory paper evaluation formula is 30% weightage to Class 10 marks, another 30% to Class 11 marks and 40% weightage to marks obtained in Class 12 unit test, mid-term, pre-board exams.
However, the wait is not over for nearly 65,000 class 12 students whose results were yet to be declared. “The result of about 1,060 new schools is still under process as there was no reference year. Hence, the board is looking into the interest of these candidates and their result will be declared latest by
August 5,” said Sanyam Bhardwaj, controller of examinations.
Congratulating the students who passed their Class 12 CBSE exams, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the batch that appeared for the boards this year did so under unprecedented circumstances caused by the Covid pandemic .” Congratulations to my young friends who have successfully passed their Class XII CBSE examinations.
Best wishes for a bright, happy and healthy future,” he tweeted.
Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan also congratulated the students. “Happy to learn that CBSE has achieved a record-high pass percentage. Compliment teachers and parents for their hard work,” Pradhan tweeted.
Only 6,149 students have been placed under compartment.
NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) recorded the highest ever pass percentage of 99.37 in this year’s class 12 results, declared on Friday, with girls outshining boys by a slender margin of 0.54 per cent.
The pass percentage increased by over 10 percentage points against last year’s 88.78%. The difference between the pass percentage of girls and boys was nearly 6% last year.
The board has announced the results on basis of an alternate assessment policy after the exams were cancelled in view of the aggressive second wave of Covid-19.
According to the policy decided by a 13-member panel of the board, the theory paper evaluation formula is 30% weightage to Class 10 marks, another 30% to Class 11 marks and 40% weightage to marks obtained in Class 12 unit test, mid-term, pre-board exams.
“For the implementation of tabulation policy successfully and in the given time frame, it was considered important to facilitate the work to be done by teachers. So, in order to facilitate schools and help them in compilation and moderation of results and reduce any inadvertent errors on their part, a comprehensive and feature-rich system was developed by IT team of the CBSE,” said CBSE Examinations Controller Sanyam Bhardwaj. Bhardwaj noted that there were about a 100,000 students who were from boards other than CBSE.
“The schools were requested to verify their roll numbers, name of candidates and name of the Board so that their data could be taken from the Boards concerned.
“The system also calculated class 10 component based on data taken from various Boards. It also facilitated schools in uploading of class 10 marks for non-CBSE candidates whose data could not be received from board concerned and calculation of its 30 per cent component,” he said.
The number of candidates scoring above 95% has increased from 38,686 last year to 70,004 this year.
However, the number of candidates scoring between 90-95% has gone down from 1,57,934 to 1,50,152.
The number of Children with Special Needs scoring above 95 per cent is 129 while 400 students in the category have scored above 90 per cent. In CBSE-affiliated schools abroad, 99.92% students have passed class 12.
Kendriya Vidalayas and the schools under the Central Tibetan Schools Administration have achieved a 100 % pass percentage as against 98.62 % and 98.23 % respectively last year.
The Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas have improved their pass percentage from 98.70 to 99.94 this year.
The pass percentage of government and government-aided schools have increased by 4.78 % and 7.92% respectively.
The pass percentage of private schools has increased by over 11 per cent since last year.
Only 6,149 students have been placed under compartment as against 87,650 students last year.
“The compartment examination will be conducted between August 16 to September 15. The exact dates will be announced in some time,” Bhardwaj said.