The Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB) declared the Class 10 board results on May 12. The examination held in April this year has broken the record of past years’ results. The students who took the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) exams have recorded a pass percentage of 81.82 percent. The KSEEB has never witnessed such a high pass percentage in almost 50 years, since it started conducting state level examinations.
There is an increment of 0.62 percent from last year’s results, which stood at 81.20 percent. This year, a total of 8.5 lakh candidates appeared for the SSLC examination, out of which about seven lakh have managed to clear their exams.
The first rank is held by Vishwajith Prakash Hedge from Sirsi, who scored 623 marks out of 625. Five students share the second rank, with 622 marks; and the third rank is shared by 15 students who scored 621 marks. A total of 27,389 students have scored above the 90 percent mark, up from 19,914 students in 2014.
The districts with the top results were Udupi and Chikkodi, with a pass percentage of 93.37 percent and 93.32 percent, respectively. Udupi has jumped directly from the 10th position last year to the first position this time.
The number of schools recording 100 percent pass percentage has also increased, with 2,511 schools reporting that each of their students’ has passed the SSLC examination. Last year, this statistic stood at 2,000 schools. Also, once again the girl students have beat the boy students in their results- the girls achieved a pass percentage of 86.23 percent while the boys were at 77.85 percent.
This year, the SSLC exams were conducted through the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) pattern, where 20 percent marks are from internal assessment and the rest 80 percent are on the basis of the board exams.
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