BENGALURU: The Karnataka School Examination and Assessment Board (KSEAB) announced the results of PU II Exam-1 on Tuesday, with overall pass percentage of 69.16, a drop of 11.99 compared to last year’s 81.15. The pass percentage of students writing exams for the first time is 73.45.
“Of the 6,37,805 students who appeared for the exam, 4,68,439 passed, with over one lakh of them with distinction. Once again, girls outperformed boys in the three streams,” Minister for Primary Education and Literacy Madhu Bangarappa said.
He attributed the dip in this year’s overall pass percentage to web streaming, which, he said, allowed for stricter monitoring during the exam. He said the real-time surveillance helped in curbing unfair practices, leading to a more realistic reflection of students’ performance.
In all, 2,08,794 students appeared for the exam in Kannada medium. Of them, 1,17,703 passed — a pass percentage of 56.37. While in English medium, of the 4,29,011 students, 3,50,736 passed, registering a pass percentage of 81.75.
The results will be available in respective colleges through the KSEAB PU Exam portal. Students may apply for the scanned copies of their answer scripts till April 13. The copies can be downloaded between April 12 and April 16. The application window for revaluation and retotalling will be open from April 12 to April 17 only for those students who had applied for the scanned copies.
Don’t wait for revaluation results to apply for Exam-2
The fee to obtain a scanned copy is Rs 530 per subject.
Revaluation fee is Rs 1,670 per subject, while retotalling will be done free of charge. Students need not wait for revaluation results to apply for Exam-2. Revaluation marks will be considered final for Exam-1. The revaluation committee’s decision will be binding, with no provision for appeals. Revaluation and retotalling results will be declared on the KSEAB website.
SCORE CARD
Top 3 performing dists
Udupi 93.90%
Dakshina Kannada 93.57%
Bengaluru South 85.36%
lowest pass percentage
Raichur 58.75%
Kalaburagi 55.70%
Yadgir 48.45%
Registration for II PU Exam-2 begins
The board also announced the timetable for II PU Exam-2 and it will be held between April 24 and May 8. For Exam-3, the timetable will be announced later. However, the exam will be held between June 9 and 21.
Students can register for Exam-2 at their colleges between April 8 and April 15, and between April 16 and April 17 with fine. Colleges must remit the fees on April 16 (without fine) or April 19 (with fine) and submit application forms to the DDPU office on the same dates.
There is no exam fee for those appearing for the second or third attempt this year, the minister said. Students who failed in 2023 can register their names based on the result sheets issued by KSEAB, while those who failed in 2022 or earlier must register using the Marks Card Authority (MCA) issued by the board.
Students who could not write
Exam-1 due to shortage of attendance can also register for Exam-2 or Exam-3 as private candidates.
Timetable for Exam-2
April 24: Kannada, Arabic
April 25: Political Science, Statistics, Biology
April 26: History, Physics
April 28: Geography, Psychology, Chemistry, Basic Maths
April 29: English
May 2: Logic, Business Studies, Mathematics, Education, Home Science
May 3: Sociology, Geology, Electronics, Computer Science
May 5: Economics
May 6: Optional Kannada, Accountancy
May 7: Hindi
May 8: Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Urdu, Sanskrit, French.
