Sunday, June 4, 2017

Jun 04 2017 : The Times of India (Chennai)
9% students fail in CBSE Class X
New Delhi:
TNN


The Central Board of Secondary Education declared the results of the Class X board exams on Saturday , announcing a pass percentage of 90.95%, a significant drop of 5.26% from last year.However, the figures released by the board, which show significant discrepancies in number of candidates and success percentages, had not been clarified till night. The 16.59 lakh candidates had to wait till late evening to access their results, with the central board claiming glitches in the online system due to the “magnitude of the data“.
The 2017 dual exam process had 8.12 lakh students opting to sit for the board exams, while 7.77 lakh chose the schoolbased exams, though the bo ard claimed a higher 16.6 lakh total appearance. According to CBSE, 93.4% of the boys cleared the hurdle against 92.5% of girl students. The pass percentage of differently abled students was 89.4%. Thiruvananthapuram region recorded the highest pass percentage of 99.85%, repeating its success of last year. It was followed by Chennai at 99.62% and Allahabad at 98.23%. The pass percentage for Delhi dropped steeply to 78.1% from 91.76% last year.
This year was the last board-and-school-based dual exam process after the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) scheme came into being in 2009 and evaluation became the responsibility of schools. The first dual exam system was held in 2011.
The Class X exam will revert to being an exclusively board-based system from next year. This year's pass percentage was almost the same (89.04%) as the pre-CCE days of 2010.
Among Kendriya Vidyalayas, Jawahar Navodya Vidyalayas and private schools, KVS logged the highest pass percentage of 99.73% (not including the results as yet undeclared of 74 students), followed by JNV with 99.66%. Private schools returned a 97.43% figure this year. KVS not only outscored its peers in pass percentage institution-wise, but it also put up an impressive show with 14,897 of its 96,652 students toting up the highest cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 10.
While the overall number of students scoring a CGPA of 10 crossed two lakh, 25,000 more students sitting for the board exams hit the grade than those appearing for the school exams, proving incorrect the claims that it is easier to get high marks in the school system than in the board-based exam. Among girls, 17,775 more than last year earned the perfect score, while 19,872 more boys achieved a similar level.
Chaos ruled on result day on Saturday as thousands of students were made to wait till late evening to end their suspense.Bhubaneswar region, like on May 28 when the Class XII results were announced, suffered the worst. An “underprivi leged“ CBSE released the results in a staggered manner, unlike in previous years when it opted for a simultaneous announcement of the results for all regions. At 6.10 pm, CBSE spokesperson said, “Schools in all regions have received results. The data being huge, the rest will also be uploaded soon.“
However, many schools across the country complained that they were unable to access the results.
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan officials slammed CBSE after it did not declare the results of nearly 100 of its students.
“While announcing the data to the media, while including the names of these students in the `appeared' list, their results were not included in the pass percentage calculations. This was similar to the Class XII result announcement, when nearly 1,000 students were left out,“ said a senior KVS official.

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