About 75.61 per cent candidates in the State passed this year’s annual High School Certificate (HSC) examinations, the results of which were announced on Wednesday.
Announcing the results at a Press briefing at the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) office here, BSE president Dakshya Prasad Nanda said out of a total of 6,01,882 candidates, 4,55,094 cleared the examinations. The BSE president said 79.69 per cent of boys and 77.78 per cent of girls passed the examinations.
Stating that the BSE from this year had introduced gradation system, Nanda said a total of 387 candidates secured A-1 grade with about 90 per cent marks in aggregate.
While 7,046 students passed in A-2 grade, 20,417 passed in B1, 64,786 in B2, 1,03,837 in C, 1,34,735 in D and 89,103 in E grade, he said.
Earlier, in her address, School and Mass Education Secretary Usha Padhee congratulated the BSE staff, police and media for smooth conduct of the examinations. She also praised the students for successfully adapting themselves with the new examination format.
Giving accounts of district-wise results, the BSE president said while Deogarh district topped the pass rate with 80.03 per cent, Malkangiri district had the lowest pass rate with 34.4 per cent results.
Giving a district-wise pass percentage, Nanda said Angul recorded 57.48 per cent pass rate followed by Nayagarh 56.82 per cent, Puri 57.10 per cent, Khordha 59.32 per cent, Gajapati 66.13 per cent, Kandhamal 59.09 per cent, Koraput 58.23 per cent, Rayagada 48.53 per cent, Nabarangpur 65.07 per cent, Jeypore 70.36 per cent, Kendrapara 59.63 per cent, Bhadrak 59.84 per cent, Ganjam 54.72 per cent, Boudh 62.92 per cent, Baleswar 77.94 per cent, Nuapada 72.86 per cent, Bargarh 54.59 per cent, Sambalpur 47.63 per cent, Bolangir 67.70 per cent, Jharsuguda 48.43 per cent, Cuttack 67.65 per cent, Subarnapur 51.97 per cent, Kalahandi 71.10 per cent, Sundargarh 64.63 per cent, Dhenkanal 68.14 per cent, Keonjhar 62.92 per cent and Jagatsinghpur 59.15 per cent.
He also informed that while 434 schools achieved 100 per cent results, there was nil result in 25 schools. In the Regular stream, 4,28,347 out of a total of 5, 44, 240 students passed the examinations with the pass percentage of 78.95. In the Ex-Regular stream, out of a total of 48,338 candidates, 23,827 cleared the examinations with a pass percentage of 50.09.
Similarly, in the Correspondence Course (CC) Regular stream, 2,407 out of a total of 8,196 passed the examinations with a pass percentage of 29.54. And, in the CC Ex-Regular stream, 519 out of a total of 1,108 candidates passed the examinations with the pass percentage of 48.01, Nanda informed.
Students from 8,439 high schools across the State had appeared in 2,737 examination centres. 3,327 students were booked for malpractice during the examinations. None of the examination centres was cancelled as the examinations went on smoothly, Nanda said. He said the BSE had decided to conduct supplementary examinations on May 30 and announce the results by the first week of July to ensure that the students do not lose a whole academic year.