Hyderabad: Class X students from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh made stupendous performance by scoring 99.99 percent and 100 percent success respectively in the final evaluation, as per results declared by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday.
The CBSE said of the 31,607 students who registered for the 2020-21 Class X final exam from Telangana, 21,605 passed, while in the case of Andhra Pradesh, 24,012 students registered for the exam and 24,011 were declared passed. One girl and one boy from Telangana did not make the grades to pass, while in Andhra Pradesh, the lone student who failed to make the cut was a boy.
The overall pass percentage in the country was 99.48 percent, the CBSE said. Of the 31,607 students in Telangana, 17,503 were boys and 14,104 were girls. In Andhra Pradesh, 13,722 were boys and 10,290 were girls.
Nationwide, the CBSE recorded the highest ever pass percentage of 99.04, with girls outshining boys by a slender margin of 0.35 per cent. The pass percentage increased by over seven percentage points against last year's 91.46 percent.
The number of candidates scoring above 95 percent has increased from 41,804 last year to 57,824 this time. The number of students scoring between 90 and 95 per cent has increased from 1,84,358 to 2,00,962. The board announced the results on the basis of an alternative assessment policy after the exams were cancelled in view of the Covid-19 second wave.
Over 21.13 lakh regular candidates registered for the class X exam this year. The results of 16,639 students were not declared as their marks tabulation is still under process. The CBSE has not yet given any timeline for the announcement of these results. Another 17,636 candidates have been placed under compartment as against over 1.5 lakh students last year.
The compartment examination will be conducted between August 16 and September 15.
In Hyderabad, the Army Public School, Bolarum, reported 100 percent pass percentage for its Class X results. With an achievement of 97.6 percent, Shreyas Anand is the school topper, followed by Aastha Shukla who scored 97.2 percent, and Muskan at 96.4 percent.
Smitha Govind, the school principal, congratulating all Class X students said, “In a year where most schools grappled with multiple challenges, APS Bolaram’s Class X teachers and students overcame every obstacle and paved the way to achieve yet another remarkable result.” Of the 255 students who appeared from the school, 22 scored above 95 percent and 64 students scored in a range of 90 to 94.9 percent, she said.
The CBSE said any student who was not satisfied with the marks allocated to them, would have an opportunity to appear for an exam as and when conditions became right for such an event. With all schools shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the CBSE declared the results taking into consideration the students’ period test/unit test (max 10 marks), half-yearly/mid-term exams (30 marks) and pre-board examinations (40 marks).
