Around half of the students in Class X in Haryana have failed to pass the examination, results for which were declared by the Board of School Education, Haryana (BSEH) on Monday. The overall pass percentage in the secondary examination was 50.49 including pass percentage of girls at 55.30 and boys stood at 46.52 percent.
The students in the State have fared little better than the last year when the total pass percentage in class X stood at only 48.88 per cent.
Yudhvir, a student of VN Senior Secondary School, Rania in Sirsa has topped in HSBE Class X exam scoring pass percentage of 99.8 while Sumit, a student of Saraswati Senior Secondary School, Danoda Kalan in Jind, stood second scoring 99.2 percent.
In all, 3,15,900 candidates appeared for the examination out of which 1,59,490 have passed this year. As many as 1,73,193 boys took the examination out of which 80,572 passed while 78,918 out of the 1,42, 707 girls have passed.
The pass percentage of government schools was only 43.50, private schools recorded pass percentage at a high 58.13 and private aided schools registered 51.18 pass percentage. Apart from this, the students in rural areas of Haryana performed better than urban areas as the pass percentage of students in the rural areas stood at 52.58 against 48.38 percent in the urban areas.
Among districts, Jhajjar stood high in the tally by achieving 65.47 pass percentage followed by Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma’s constituency Mohindergarh which recorded 64.71 pass percentage in Class X. Faridabad district performed worst registering pass percentage of only 38.80 percent followed by Yamunanagar which recorded 38.83 percent pass percentage.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar’s constituency Karnal registered pass percentage of 41.35 percent in the secondary exams.
In the recently announced senior secondary exams (class XII) results, the total pass percentage was recorded at 64.50 percent. The girls had recorded pass percentage of 73.44 while the pass percentage of boys stood at 64.50 percent.
Jagbir Singh, chairman, Board of School Education Haryana(BSEH), while talking to the mediaperons in Bhiwani said that scoring a margin of 8.78 per cent, 55.30 per cent girls passed the examination as compared to 46.52 per cent boys in Class X.
He added that the students can access their result online on the Board’s website www.bseh.org.in and the mobile application prepared by the Board. This application could be downloaded from the Google Play store after searching for the keywords ‘Education Board Bhiwani Haryana’, said he.
Earlier, the Board of School Education Haryana (BSEH) had withdrawn the results of the Class X over releasing the incorrect toppers list.
The topper list was released later Monday evening and the Board also suspended two employees for negligence in making the final list.