RECORD 73.11% STUDENTS PASS MATRIC EXAMINATIONS

RECORD 73.11% STUDENTS PASS MATRIC EXAMINATIONS

As many as 5, 14, 590 students out of 5, 76, 953 , who appeared at the High School Certificate (HSC-Matriculation) Examinations-2013 of the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) came out successful registering a record pass percentage of 73.11, which is said to be an all-time high. The results of the examinations that were held between February 25 and March 9 were declared on Tuesday.

State School and Mass Education Minister Rabi Narayan Nanda releasing the result booklets here at the BSE office congratulated the BSE staff and teachers of the State for making a sincere effort and declaring the results ahead of all other Boards in the country.

“The reforms made in the matriculation examinations in the State have started yielding results, and we shall continue this endeavour to ensure that the sanctity of the examinations is retained while relieving the examination pressure on students,” the Minister said.

Statistics of the results indicate that as many as 1,56,097 students passed in the first division and 1,81,263 students made it in the second division while 1,77, 230 students passed in the third division.

Besides, results of 1,175 students were withheld for some reasons and the BSE officials informed that results of these students would be made public within seven days. Similarly, results of 8,440 students were not announced on the day as they were booked under for ‘malpractice’ for adopting unfair means during the examinations.

While the BSE made a commendable effort to announce the results in record time, some students, however, complained of faulty evaluation, tabulation and uploading marks in computer as result sheets of some promising students indicated ‘zero’ mark in some subjects like Sanskrit.

When the same was brought to the notice of the BSE President DP Nanda, he acknowledged them and said all such complaints would be addressed within three days and no student would be allowed to suffer for no fault of theirs.

The result statistics further revealed that among the districts, the students of Baleswar recorded higher pass percentage (86.97) while the students of Nuapada fared poorest registering only 51.38 pass percentage.

While 5,13,474 students wrote the examinations in the Regular stream, 54, 947 appeared for the Ex-Regular stream and another 8,542 appeared in the correspondence course.

Among the regular students, the pass percentage was 75.99 of which 1,05,148 passed in first division, 1,27,209 passed in second division and 1,53,202 passed in third division.

In order to avoid unethical competitions among the schools, the BSE this year did not publish the top-hundred list of the students much to the dismay of some bright students belonging to private schools. Schools run by the RSS under Shiksha Vikash Samiti were occupying most of the slots in the top hundred.