Visakhapatnam: As many as 91.92 percent of the regular students, who appeared for the SSC examinations from March 17 to April 1, have cleared them.
Among girls, 91.97 percent (2,7,344 out of 2,95,031) passed, while for boys the pass percentage was 91.87 (2,88,909 out of 3,14,471).
Human Resource Development Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao released the tenth class results in YVS Murthy Auditorium in Visakhapatnam on Saturday.
On this occasion, Rao said that the pass percentage this year has slipped by about 2.6 per cent compared to the results of 2016 (94.52 per cent). And, as usual, the girls outperformed the boys in the pass percentage.
East Godavari district registered highest pass percentage of 97.97 while Chittoor stood in the last place with 80.55 pass percentage.
Rao informed that there are two schools in the state this year with a zero pass percentage.
He said that one can apply for recounting of marks or re-verification of answer books before May 20 by paying the prescribed amount per subject.
The supplementary examinations are scheduled from June 17 to June 28 from 9:30 am to 12:15 pm.
The percentage of private candidates who cleared the examinations is 63.38. Private schools secured highest percentage of passes, i.e., 97.26.
Rao said that they are fully committed to the revival of education in government schools.
