A majority of students in Class X and XII in Haryana have failed to pass the first semester examinations, for which the results were declared on Thursday by Board of School Education, Haryana (BSEH).
At the time, when the BJP led Haryana Government is making tall claims of providing quality education in schools, the overall pass percentage in the first semester of secondary exam was only 35.24 %, whereas that of the senior secondary exam was 56.75%.
According to the Board, out of 3,31,225 students, who had appeared for the secondary exam(regular), only 1,16,728 passed and out of 2,47,877 students who took the senior secondary exam (regular), 1,40,662 passed the exam.
The girls have outshined boys in the first semester examinations of the secondary and senior secondary exams.
In the secondary exam (class X), the pass percentage of boys was only 32.52 against 38.51% of girls. The private schools registered 46.44 percent overall pass percentage against 26.07 pass percentage in government schools. In rural areas, the pass percentage was 35.12 while it was 35.53 percent in urban Haryana.
Similarly, the pass percentage of girls in the senior secondary exam stood at 65.78% against 49.66% of boys. In class XII, the government schools witnessed overall pass percentage of 53.93 while it was 59.43 percent in private schools.
Among districts, Sonepat stood high in the tally by achieving 58.83 pass percentage followed by Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma’s constituency Mohindergarh which recorded 57.95 pass percentage in class X. Mewat district performed worst registering pass percentage of only 19.95 percent while Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar’s constituency Karnal registered pass percentage of 27.57 only in the secondary exams.
In senior secondary exams, Sirsa registered highest pass percentage of 64.42 percent followed by Mohindergarh achieving 63.90 pass percentage. Here also, Mewat stood lowest in the tally with only 26.99 pass percentage in XII exams.
Meanwhile, following the poor performance of students in class X and XII, Haryana Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma said that State Government is committed to provide value based education to the students besides formal education. The Government is working on improving the quality of education in the state, he said.
The Board of School Education, Haryana (BSEH) continued to witness poor results this year. Notably, the overall pass percentage was just 41.28 for class X and 53.96% in the senior secondary (class XII) examinations, results for which were declared in May. At that time also, the girl candidates had fared better than their boy counterparts.
In May, the pass percentage for girls in the secondary examination was 64.5 percent, while the boys had recorded a pass percentage of 45.88 percent. In the senior secondary examination, the girls recorded a pass percentage of 44.6 percent and the boys managed to get a pass percentage of 38.4 percent.
The examinations are conducted twice in a year for class VIII, X, XII in the state. The first semester exams are held in September while second semester exams are conducted in March. The results are declared within one to two months.