CUTTACK: The overall pass rate in the annual high school certificate (HSC) examinations- 2025 dipped by 1.14 per cent from last year as 94.93 per cent students have emerged successful this year. The pass rate was 96.07 per cent in 2024.
As per the results announced by the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) on Friday, 4,84,863 of the 5,02,417 students who had appeared the exams this year have passed.
While 1,812 students have achieved A1 grade securing more than 90 per cent marks, 12,200 have obtained A2 grade ( 80 to 89 per cent). As many as 38,831 students secured B1 (70 to 79 per cent), 84,971 got B2 (60 to 69 per cent), 1,33,882 C (50 to 59 per cent), 1,46,154 D (40 to 49 per cent) and 67,013 students obtained E ( 30 to 39 per cent). Around 17,384 students have failed to succeed in the examination.
Congratulating the students for the performance, School and Mass Education Minister Nityananda Gond said, the exams this year had passed off smoothly and results published on time as the government had taken all measures to ensure foolproof test and evaluation process. Girls continued to retain their supremacy over boys this year.
While 96 per cent girls passed the exam, the rate among boys was 94 per cent. Among the districts, Gajapati posted the highest 99.35 per cent pass rate while lowest 92.83 per cent was reported from Koraput.
Like last year, there was no NIL result in any high school of the state. While schools posted 100 per cent result this year, the number was 2,644 last year.
The BSE has also announced Madhyama and State Open School Certificate(SOSC) examinations which were conducted simultaneously with annual HSC examination. The result of the Sanskrit Madhyama has shown a decline in pass per cent by 12.33. As many as 2,917 students had appeared the exam of whom 2,868 have succeeded by registering 85.79 pass rate. Last year, the pass percentage was 98.12.
However, there has been an increase in the pass percentage in the (SOSC) examination. While 74.88 per cent of 5,591 candidates have passed this year, the rate was 59.88 last year.
BSE president Srikant Tarai said, the students will immediately get their digitized certificate online while hard copies of the certificates will also be provided to them.
A control room has been set up which will be operational till May 9. Candidates can make any query relating to their results over phone number-0671-2412059, 2412060 and 8763088890 in between 10.30 am to 5 pm on the working days, informed vice-president Nihar Ranjan Mohanty.
Mohanty said candidates dissatisfied with their result can apply for rechecking or addition of marks from May 5 to May 16.