Thiruvananthapuram: The pass percentage of this year’s Plus-Two examinations would have come down by at least one percent without moderation. The pass percentage is 80.94, while it was 83.96 last year. The moderation was a total of 10 marks for all students. Higher secondary director K.V. Mohankumar declined to reveal the exact moderation marks as it was the decision of the higher secondary examination board. Moderation was given in the previous years also, he said.
Eligibility for higher studies is D-plus or above grade for all subjects with 30 percent scores in theory alone and an aggregate of 30 percent in theory, practical evaluation and continuous evaluation taken together. Double valuation was done for the answer scripts of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. The tabulations of all subjects were done online.
In addition to 3,61,683 school-going regular students, those from the technical and art streams also appeared for higher secondary examination. In the technical stream, 1,782 candidates took the Higher Secondary Examination this year from 15 technical schools. As many as 1,397 candidates became eligible for higher studies, the pass percentage being 78.40. Last year it was 78.67. Among the technical stream students, 56 secured A-plus in all subjects.
The art stream is conducted in the Kalamandalam Art School. This year 69 students appeared for the higher secondary examination and 55 qualified for higher studies. The pass percentage is 79.71. As many as 67,027 candidates appeared for the higher secondary examination, March 2016 in various streams through the State Council for Open and Life Long Education (SCOLE) and 23,533 qualified for higher studies. The percentage of results is 35.11. Last year it was 36.95.
Among the students presented by the SCOLE, 52 students secured A-plus in all subjects. The candidates of March 2010 to March 2015 higher secondary Examinations who failed to attain D-plus or above grades for all subjects and who had attended the first year higher secondary improvement examination in September 2015 also registered for March 2016 examination as old syllabus candidates. Out of 22,893 students in this category, 8,339 students qualified for higher studies (36.43percent).
Aided schools perform better
Aided schools registered a better pass percentage than government schools in the sector-wise results of the Plus-Two. The pass percentage of aided schools is 83.21. Out of the 1, 75,572 candidates who appeared for the examinations from the aided sector, 1,46,094 qualified for higher studies.
In the government sector, the pass percentage is 79.66 percent. As many as 1, 21,635 candidates out of 1,52,512 became eligible for higher studies from government schools. In the unaided sector, the pass percentage is 74.76. As many as 24,841 candidates qualified for higher studies out of 33,227.
The schools from the Gulf had better results than that of the state. The pass percentage of Gulf schools is 96.56 while that of Kerala is 80.94. Lakshadweep recorded only 65.15 percent. Mahe which is part of Puducherry recorded 80.28 percent pass.
Girls perform better than boys
Girls performed better than boys in the Plus-Two pass percentage. Of the 1,90,536 girls who took the exam, 1,67,167 (87.74 percent) became eligible for higher studies, while out of 1,71,147 boys, 1,25,586 (73.38 percent) qualified for higher studies. In the science stream, 1,48,744 (81.65 pc) candidates qualified for higher studies out of 1,82,180 who took the examination.
In the humanities stream, 56,008 (77.25 pc) out of 72,500 and in the commerce stream 88,001 (82.24 pc) out of 1,07,003 qualified for higher studies. Caste wise, the pass percentage is 61.07 percent of the scheduled caste students (23,132), 61.42 percent of scheduled tribes (3,101), 70.23 percent of OEC students (9,225), 82.45 percent of OBC students (1, 0,004) and 88.53 percent of other category students (77,290) .
The total number of seats in higher secondary in the state is sufficient to admit all students who passed the SSLC exam. There are 3,56,730 seats for higher secondary including, 1,40,950 in government, 1,64,850 in aided, and 50,930 in unaided, residential, special and technical schools put together.
Moreover, schools have the option to admit 25 percent extra students each year. There are 33,000 seats in vocational higher secondary schools and 25,000 in ITC and ITI put together. As many as 4,57,654 have been declared eligible for higher studies in SSLC this year.
‘SAY’ examination from June 2 to 8
The Save A Year (SAY) and improvement examination for higher secondary students will be conducted from June 2 to June 8. The notification will be issued on May 10 and students should submit the application in the schools in which they appeared for the March 2016 examination.
Students who registered and appeared for the first time in the higher
secondary examinations and who failed to obtain sufficient grade for a
pass in any subject can apply for the examination to obtain D-plus in such
subjects. D-plus is the minimum grade needed for eligibility for higher studies.
Those who appeared as old syllabus candidates and obtained D-plus or above in five subjects and remained ineligible in one subject can also appear for the SAY examination to become eligible for higher studies. Old syllabus candidates who remain ineligible for more than one subject cannot apply for SAY.
Those who appeared for the examination for the first time in March 2016 and obtained D-plus or above in all subjects can also appear for any one subject at the improvement examination.
