Girls also outshone boys in this year’s High School Certificate (HSC) Examinations, the results of which were published by the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) on Wednesday.
The pass percentage was 78.76% against the last year’s 72.35%.
While 1,279 students passed in Grade A against the last year’s 1,180, 8,458 passed in Grade A2 and 18,188 passed in B1.
Besides, 31, 328 students passed in Grade B2, 49,153 in Grade C, 89,556 in Grade D and 2,23,195 students passed in Grade E.
School and Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Dash released the results through a videoconferencing. He also announced the results of State Open School Certificate Examination and Madhyama (Sanskrit) Examination, which are also conducted by the State Board and treated equivalent to matriculation.
The Minister claimed that evaluation and tabulation of answer sheets have been done flawlessly despite challenges put by the Covid pandemic and Cyclone Amphan.
While a total 5,34,843 students had appeared for the examination, 4,21,256 emerged victorious in different grades.
Of the 2,72,738 girls who appeared, 2,15,367 succeeded, registering 81.88% results.
Similarly, 2,47,451 boys had sat for the test and of them, 1,92,501 passed, registering 77.8% results.
This year, as many as 678 high schools achieved 100% results against the last year’s 289. The number of schools doing nil results also declined this year. While 82 schools had done nil results last year, the number declined to 31 this year.
Students have been given one-month time from August 6 to apply for rechecking of their answer sheets.
In the Open School category, 3,653 students cleared the test from among 9,126 appeared; In the Madhyama examination, 4,135 students passed, registering a pass percentage of 97.18.