A total of 37.96 per cent of students passed in the Supplementary High School Certificate Examination-2013 conducted by the Board of Secondary Education, Odisha, the results of which were declared on Friday.
School and Mass Education Minister Rabi Narayan Nanda released the results at the State Secretariat. Of the total pass rate, while the regular pass percentage stood at 41.68, it was 33.57 per cent in ex-regular category, 20.49 for correspondence course (CC) regular and 28.78 CC ex-regular candidates. A total of 22,152 of the 58,361 candidates who appeared at the examination passed while only 194 students secured first division, 1,726 second division and 17,135 candidates passed in third division.
The results of only three students were withheld and the results of 1,901 students were not published on the ground of malpractice. In all, 40,962 students had appeared at the examination in the regular stream and 15,664 in the ex-regular stream. A district-wise analysis of the results in the regular stream revealed that educationally backward Nuapada district stole the limelight securing the top rank with 67.15 pass percentage while Keonjhar stood the lowest with only 28.21 per cent. Interestingly, in the last year’s supplementary examination Nuapada had stood the lowest with 8.24 pass percentage.
As per the sex-wise pass data, boys shone in the overall rate with 57.02 per cent while 42.98 per cent of girls came out successful. The numbers are 12,632 boys and 9,520 are girls. Minister Nanda said the certificates and mark-sheets would be made available to the students by August 3 in their respective schools.