Salem registers 91.75 pass percentage
Salem district registered a pass percentage of 91.75 and Namakkal district registered 93.51% in the Class X public examination results that were released on Friday.
In Salem district, Chief Educational Ocer M. Kabeer released the results at the CEO oce.
From Salem district, 42,351 students (21,474 boys and 20,877 girls) from 525 schools wrote the exams. Of those, 38,859 students (19,066 boys and 19,793 girls) passed the exam. The pass percentage was 91.75 that is 0.62 higher than last year’s pass percentage.
From the 296 government schools in Salem district, 24,683 students (11,917 boys and 12,766 girls) wrote the exams, and of those, 22,126 (10,226 boys and 11,900 girls) passed the exams.
The pass percentage of government schools was 89.64%, which is 1.33 higher than last year’s pass percentage.
In Salem district, a total of 136 schools (44 government, three governmentaided, 88 private and one Anglo-Indian school) registered 100% pass. Likewise, from Salem Central Prison, all the 23 prisoners who wrote class X public exams passed. A convict, Dheenadayalan, scored 342 marks. Prison superintendent (incharge) G. Vinoth gifted pens to high scorers.
In Namakkal district, 19,759 students (10,147 boys and 9,612 girls), wrote the exams from 296 schools. Of those, 19,759 students (9,318 boys and 9,159 girls) passed.
The pass percentage was 93.51, which is 0.53 higher than last year’s pass percentage.
Of the 11,626 students from 163 government schools who wrote the exams, 10,563 students passed.
The pass percentage of government schools was 90.86, which is 0.62 higher than last year’s pass percentage. This year, 104 schools registered 100% pass in the district, including 34 government schools, one Adi Dravidar Welfare School, and one government-aided school.
Twin sisters R. Akshaya (15) and R. Akalya (15) from Rasipuram scored the same marks, 463 out of 500, in the public exams. They scored centum in mathematics.