Odisha registered the highest pass percentage of 99.84 under Bhubaneswar region in the results for Class X examination announced by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Thursday.
More than 50,300 students appeared for the CBSE Class X examinations this year. The overall success rate in the region is 99.37 per cent. It is higher than the last year’s 98.5 per cent.
Odisha, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh come under Bhubaneswar region of CBSE. The pass rate in West Bengal is 99.58 per cent while in Chhattisgarh it is 99.14 per cent. Of 604 CBSE schools coming under the region, 240 schools are from Odisha.
Keeping up with the trend, the girls continued to outshine boys this year also. While 99.48 per cent of girls cleared the examination, 99.3 per cent of boys were successful. Around 44 per cent of the total students who appeared for the examination managed to score above 75 per cent. “Seventyfive per cent of the total students have scored above 60 per cent of marks in the examination,” said CBSE regional officer AS Verma.
Many of the CBSE schools in the city have performed spectacularly with a majority of the students managing to score cumulative grade point analysis (CGPA) of 10. This year, the Kendriya Vidyalayas (KV) and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) have performed better than private schools.
The success rate of all the JNVs taken together is 99.88 per cent and that of the KVs stands at 99.67 per cent. Similarly, the private schools scored 99.45 per cent success.
Around 40.73 per cent students of DAV Chandrasekharpur School have scored CGPA 10 and all the students scored above CGPA six. Similarly, DAV Public School Unit-VIII performed well and 68 students out of 271 scored CGPA 10. The average pass per cent of the school stands at 85 per cent.
Verma also added that this year the grades for many of the students were upgraded based on their performance in core scholastic area.
“We usually upgrade the subject grades for the students who perform exceptionally well in extra-curricular activities like athletics or performing arts. This is being done for the past two years to recognise their talents and encourage them,” said Verma.