The Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) on Saturday announced the results of this year’s Plus Two Arts and Commerce streams.
The overall pass in Arts was 68.79 per cent against 70.71 per cent in 2017. Similarly, 74.91 per cent students cleared the examination in Commerce against the last year’s figure of 71.43 per cent, informed School and Mass Education Minister Badri Narayan Patra.
A total of 1, 58,378 students passed the examination in Arts. Girls outshone boys as 94,619 of them cleared the examinations whereas 63,759 boys were successful.
A total of 19,993 students secured first division, 26,076 second division and 1,12,143 third division.
Puri district recorded the highest pass rate of 79.87 per cent while Nabarangpur district had the lowest of 47.58 per cent in Arts, informed Patra.
The Arts pass rate was 71.55 per cent and the Commerce pass rate 70.39 per cent.
In Commerce, a total of 26,984 students had appeared at the examinations out of which 20,216 candidates have passed.
The number of students passed in first division was 4,006, in second division 3,734 and in third division 12,470. The number of successful boys was 13,089 and that of girls 7,127.
Nayagarh district recorded the highest pass percentage of 95. 59 and Deogarh recoded the lowest pass percentage of 45.07 per cent.