CBSE results : NE pass percentage drops
Source: The Sangai Express / Courtesy The Hindu
Guwahati, May 26 2015 :
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced the Class XII board examination results on Monday and the pass percentage of the Guwahati zone dropped by about 6 pc.
From 75.80 pc last year, the figure dropped to 70.38 pc this year.
Board officials attributed the decline to a modification of the question paper pattern this year.
"The number of difficult questions increased this year.
From 20 to 30 pc, the difficulty level of the papers increased to around 40-60 pc.
This affected the overall percentage," said Sanjib Das, regional officer of the Guwahati zone.
A large number of students from Govt-run schools in Sikkim and Arunachal appears in the CBSE board examination and this also accounts for the lower pass percentage of the Guwahati zone, Das said.
Arunachal and Sikkim do not have State education boards and all Government schools, some with poor infrastructure, are affiliated to CBSE.
Overall, the Thiruvananthapuram region recorded the highest pass percentage � 95.41 pc.
Girls outshone boys this year in the Guwahati zone with a pass percentage of 73 pc.
The pass percentage of boys was 68 pc.
The Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas produced the best results in the zone with 94.30 pc pass percentage.
The Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) came second with a pass percentage of 93.74 pc.
Other private and public schools showed a pass percentage of 71.82 pc, while the pass percentage of Govt schools was 59.42 pc.
Among city schools, Don Bosco School, Panbazar, and MVM Senior Secondary School, Barsajai, recorded 100 pc pass pc.
The pass percentage of KV Khanapara, was 94 pc, while South Point School, Guwahati, recorded 99.6 pc pass percentage.
While the topper from Don Bosco scored an aggregate of 97.6 pc two students from MVM, Barsajai, got 97.4 pc.
A total of 47,480 students appeared in the examination from the Guwahati zone this year.