Goemkarponn desk
PANAJI: Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (GBSHE) today declared that 99.72% of the SSC students passed in the results declared on Monday evening, much higher than the 92.69 who passed the previous year.
Out of the 23, 937 students that were for the SSC, 23,900 passed. A mere 67 students failed.
“This time the SSC exams were canceled and the results were declared based on objective criteria. This time the pass percentage of 99.72 percent is the highest as compared to 92.69 percent last year,” said GBSHE Chairman Bhagirath Shetye
As per information, from the 13,011 boys, 12.946 passed taking the pass percentage to 95.5 percent. In terms of 10,956 girls 10,954 passed taking the total percentage to 99.98 percent.
Shetye further said that of the 67 students that failed are eligible for supplementary examination. Also 6.744 applications have been received to the board from aspirants of diploma and science stream for conduct of entrance examinations.
The schools were directed to submit the marks based on internal assessment by June 26 to the Board,” he said.
Shetye had said that the students will be assessed out of maximum 100 marks for each subject and as the policy of the Board, 20 marks are for Internal Assessment and the same is been submitted by the schools till May 15.
“Any students who are not happy with their marks can approach the board and they will be given permission to appear for offline examination,” Shetye added
Shetye said that the schools will conduct an objective type offline/online Supplementary Examination based on the Sample Question papers provided by the Board for those students whose overall result is with the remark ‘need improvement’. He said that all unsuccessful regular candidates and regular candidates who were unable to appear for main examination are also eligible for supplementary examination.
The board said that 4.392 students got above 80 percent marks while, 10,000 students got marks between the range of 60 to 80.
The Goa education board, which cancelled its Class 10 final exams this year, had formulated a scheme for finalising the results of students based on their internal assessment conducted by schools during the academic year and an objective criterion developed by the board.
The board, in view of the increasing COVID-19 cases in Goa, the Class 10 examinations, which were supposed to be held from May 13 to June 4 this year were cancelled.
Any candidate who is not satisfied with the marks allotted will be given an opportunity to appear in an exam as and when conditions are conducive to hold the exam, according to the scheme.
