BHUBANESWAR: A whopping 98.58% students cleared the higher secondary (Plus II) exam in humanities, the result of which was announced by the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) on Saturday. This was a massive jump of 27.58% compared to last year’s pass percentage of 71.
“All those students who took admission in higher secondary have passed the exam successfully,” CHSE chairman Gangadhar Sahoo said. A total of 1,89,363 students had registered for the higher secondary examination of whom 1,86,685 passed.
The government had to cancel the Plus II board exam in the wake of an aggressive second wave and students were assessed as per an alternative assessment system. The few students who were unsuccessful were due to some anomaly found in the results submitted by their respective schools, an official source said.
Announcing the results, school and mass education minister Samir Ranjan Dash, said, “The results were declared amid the pandemic for which the council had to face many challenges. In the absence of internal examination and marks, students have been assessed through an alternative assessment system based on their Class X marks. Those students who are not happy with their marks can appear in the offline examination later. The council will announce the dates for offline examination on August 21.”
Girls outshone boys in humanities, registering a pass percentage of 92.34% against 85.98 among boys. As many as 30,510 students cleared the exam in first division while 46,101 got second division and 1,10,074 in third division. This year, 95 students have scored above 90% marks while last year there was only one student in this category.
The pass percentage of ex-regular students in humanities is 26 as only 7,161 cleared the exam while 27,595 had registered for it. “We faced difficulty in assessment of ex-regular candidates as many of them did not appear in any examination under the CHSE in the last few years. The council searched for the marks they had secured in their last examination,” the minister said. Dissatisfied or unsuccessful ex-regular students can also apply for the offline examination.
In vocational studies, 99.16% students cleared the examination. Girls registered a pass percentage of 88.4 against 83.85 among boys. Among them, 1076 got first division, 1836 second and 2219 students in third division.
In the Mahir exam (higher secondary level) conducted by the State Madrasa Board, 96.7% cleared the exam.
