CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu saw a slight dip in this year's Class 12 board exams, which the School education minister KA Sengottaiyan termed as "beneficial in the long run".
According to the data released by the school education department, this year 91.1 per cent of students who appeared for the board exam passed it. This is a 1.1 per cent reduction from last year's pass per cent. In view of the Tamil Nadu students finding the National Eligibility and Entrance Test difficult, it was widely felt that the State must revamp it's school syllabus.
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"Though, some might have found the question papers tough compared to the previous year, it will help the students in the longer run," said Sengottaiyan adding that action will be taken against schools which try to promote admissions by publishing rank lists. The state had abolished ranking system earlier.
Though this batch of the students took exams in the old syllabus, the evaluation and the question papers are said to be made a little difficult this year.
The performance of female students have been consistent with the last two years. The total number of girls who appeared for the HSC +2 exams this year is 4,60,255, of which 94.1 students cleared the exam. The total number of male students who appeared for the exam is 4,00,179, of which 87.7 per cent cleared. Last year the pas per cent among boys was 89.3 per cent.
Tamil Nadu Board Class 12 result Analysis
While there is total of 6,754 higher secondary schools in the State, only 1,907 schools recorded 100 per cent pass per cent i.e. less than a third of schools recorded a full pass rate. Out of 2,574 government high schools, only 238 schools recorded a perfect pass per cent. That is less than a tenth of schools.
Among the 33 districts, Virudhunagar has performed best in terms of pass percentage with over 97 per cent students clearing the exam. The district recorded a pass per cent of 97.85 last year. Erode (96.35 per cent) and Tiruppur (96.18 per cent) stand next on the list. Villipuram recorded the least pass per cent with a little over 83 per cent of students clearing the exam. The figure last year however stood at 86.36 per cent. Cuddalore which had the least pass per cent last improved from 84.99 per cent last year to 86.69 per cent this year.
Among streams, science stream students performed best with over 94 per cent of students clearing the exam followed by commerce stream students among whom over 87 per cent cleared. Roughly 80 per cent of students from arts and vocational streams cleared the exam.
Tamil Nadu saw its best pass percentage in 2017 with an outstanding 92.2 per cent among 8,93,262 students. The girls have achieved a pass percentage of 94.5 per cent and boys secured 89.3 per cent.