The result of Annual Secondary School Examination of 2014 conducted by Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC), apart from a manifestation of trends in education sector, also reveals subjects where institutions need to concentrate to achieve a better overall result.
Even as Mathematics turned out to the subject where maximum students scored A+ grades, English and Social Science turned out to be their worst nightmare with English figuring at the bottom of the ladder of regular subjects and Social Science with tad better than English.
Around 21 per cent of pass students scored A+ Grade in Mathematics followed by 5 per cent in Science and 2 per cent students scored A+ Grade in Social Science where as meager 2 per cent students managed to score the highest grade in the examination.
Surprisingly, among the compulsory subjects majority of students figured either in the column of Grade-A or B+ signifying around average performance not only by students but also by the teachers.
However, languages including few regional ones also appeared loosing charm among students as exhibited by the results. While there were no student in the highest bracket in Nagpuri and Oriya, Kurmali, Khortha and Oraon featured too low counts on A+ grade score.
While an advocate of tribal culture would be disappointed with the performance of students in the aforementioned languages, Santhali would provide some respite to those who want to preserve tribal culture and language.
Santhali emerged top among the regional languages in terms of absolute number for students scoring A+ grade which is 241. Significantly, poor performance in grades made the JAC Chairman Anand Bhushan put some valid question on the efforts put by teachers in imparting quality education to students since last year.
The result this year exhibited an upward trend but the increase of 2.15 per cent appeared too small compared to the jump in 2013 over 2012. “We are only an examining body. It is for the teachers to think how they are teaching. How can they sleep so peacefully after this resultIJ” said the JAC Chairman.
Interestingly, Giridih topped among districts with 85.84 per cent where as Saraikela sit at the bottom of the table with 65.62 per cent. Notably, the result this year maintained the upward trend since 2012 when the pass percentage stood at 67.35 per cent. Nonetheless, as many as nine districts performed poor than previous result and the margin of decline over previous result is between 7 to less than one per cent.
