TS fares far better in SSC : 92.43% All-time high pass percentage

Hyderabad: Once again, girls registered a pass percentage of 2.5 per cent more than the boys. Boys secured a pass percentage of 91.18 while girls got 93.68 in the SSC results that were announced here on Monday.

The total pass percentage stood at 92.43 per cent (an all-time high in Telangana state), nearly 9 per cent higher than 83.78 per cent figure registered in 2018.

Among the districts, it was hat-trick for Jagtial which stood at the top with the highest pass percentage of 99.73 while Hyderabad was at the bottom (83.09).

Education Secretary Dr B Janardhan Reddy, Commissioner and Director (School Education) T Vijay Kumar, Director of Government Examinations wing B Sudhakar and senior officers of the department released the results in Secretariat around noon.

The exams were held from March 16 to April 3.

A total of nearly 5.47 lakh students appeared for the tenth exams, of which 5.06 lakh students were regular ones while 40, 526 appeared as private candidates. The pass percentage of private candidates was at 56.53.

In the pass percentage for Regular candidates (92.43), girls outperformed boys by securing 93.68 percent as against the 91.18 percent achieved by the latter.

Of the total 11,026 high schools (across the State) from which students wrote these exams, 100 per cent pass percentage was registered in 4,374 schools.

Nine schools, including five private schools registered zero pass percentage meaning not even a single student cleared the exam.

Among schools, BC Welfare schools secured the highest pass percentage (98.78) while the government schools secured the lowest pass per cent ( 84.38).

BC-Welfare, KGBV, Residential, Model, Social Welfare, Tribal Welfare and private schools secured more pass percentage that state average.

While Zilla Parishad, Minority Residential, Ashram, Aided Schools and government schools secured less pass percentage that state average of 92.43.

Failed candidates have another opportunity to give their best shot at the exams as Advanced Supplementary Exams are scheduled to be held from June 10 to June 24.

The last date for remittance of exam fee is May 27. However, students can pay with a late fee of Rs 50 until June 8, which is two days before the start of the exams.

Since the time available for the conduct of supplementary exams is less, failed candidates were advised to remit the exam fee without waiting for results of recounting or re-verification.

School Education Commissioner T Vijay Kumar attributed the high pass percentage (of 92.43) seen this year to students' hardwork and preparation, parents' support, special classes taken by teachers in respective schools and efforts of district administration for better results.

When asked if there was any effect of Intermediate results goof-up episode as the pass percentage shot up to above 90 per cent this time, he said it had no bearing at all.

Of the 38,000 students who failed in exams, nearly 5,000 students failed by one mark, the senior IAS officer pointed out.

He explained that SSC valuation (Paper-1 and Paper-2) was done by different examiners and they would not have any idea of marks in other paper while correcting it.

Totalling of marks was done through a computer database without the intervention of examiners, Vijay Kumar stressed. He, however, agreed that special focus was given for the correction process.

Verification of scripts was done again in case any student got very high or very low marks to ascertain the score, he said.