Mum division: Number of students scoring 90% and above has dipped
MUMBAI: The announcement of Secondary School Certificate (Ssc-class 10) results on Friday marked celebrations for schools across the state, especially in the Mumbai division, which has recorded a success rate of 96.12% (fresh and repeat candidates), making it the second-best success rate recorded by the division.
Despite high pass percentage in the Mumbai division, the overall number of students scoring 90% and above has dipped this year with 10,764 students achieving this feat, compared to 14,756 students who managed the same score in 2020. Principals feel some students struggled with scoring high marks in languages this year, which could have affected individual scores of students.
A vice-principal of a south
Mumbai school, whose school scored 100% results, said, “We were worried about our current batch’s performance in the exams, as in the last two years due to online lectures, students couldn’t hone their writing skills, which is essential in the board exams. However, what made them calmly and confidently write their papers was the fact that they were in the familiar surroundings of their schools while appearing for boards. It also seems like the assessment this year was lenient, considering students were appearing for a physical exam after a break of nearly two years.”
In 2021, class 10 board exams across several school education boards had to be scrapped due to rising Covid-19 cases. Results for the class 10 batch was instead based on students’ performance in classes 9 and 10 combined, where class 10 performance was focussed on internal marks. This decision helped boost the marks of students across boards. While the overall success rate of SSC students was 99.5% last year, ICSE students in Maharashtra and CBSE students from the Pune region (which includes Mumbai) boasted of a 100% success rate. A large number of schools have recorded 100 percent results in the Mumbai division this year and many have witnessed an increase in the number of students scoring distinction this year. “Almost 80% of our students have scored 75% and above in both the English and Marathi medium batches. We are once again proud of 100 percent results and we attribute it to a team effort of the entire staff and the students as it was a very challenging year for them with online education but offline examinations,” said Snigdha Roy, Principal, Father Agnel Multipurpose School, Vashi. The highest scorer from the school is 16-year-old Radha Rasam (99.6%).