SSCE pass percentage jumps; boys outdo girls
HERALD REPORTER
PANJIM, MAY 27
Goa took a big leap in the Secondary School Certificate examination results by scoring a pass percentage of 83.50 compared to last year’s 77.11 and as usual boys (79.41%) led the girls (78.24%) in the better pass percentage table by a slight margin.
The exam was conducted from March 29 to April 10, 2010 across 23 centres in the State for which 15,824 students registered and 15,808 appeared. Of these, 13,200 passed the exam registering a pass percentage of 83.50.
The Chairman of Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Mervyn D’Souza, who declared the results on Thursday, gave full credit to the students for the performance. The students and teachers are really putting in efforts, he stated. (Restults on Pg 12,13,14)
He said the Bharatiya Jain Sanghtana had done a thorough assessment of schools and their performances over the last few years. This had made schools realise their weaknesses and work accordingly to better their performance, he stated.
Secretary of Goa Board D R Bhagat said after the initial hiccups the students and teachers too had adapted well to the National Council of Educational Research and Training syllabus and hence the good result.
SPORTS MERIT MARKS: The Chairman said the newly implemented sports merit marks had benefited 113 students (86 boys and 27 girls) and the same were also responsible for lifting the pass percentage by a small margin of 0.05%. The highest sports merit marks awarded to a single student is 48, he informed.
ATKT BENEFIT: D’Souza said 586 students were awarded ATKT (allowed to keep term) in two subjects. The ATKT in two subjects came into force from the March 2010 examination and the same was awarded to those students who managed to score an aggregate 40% in the remaining passed subjects, he stated and added, “Another 427 students were awarded ATKT in one subject.”
GOVT SCHOOLS’ 100% RESULT: The salient feature of this year’s SSC result is seven out of the 20 schools that have scored 100% result are Government-run schools. In the past too Government schools scored 100% but this year the number is significant, the Board Chairman mentioned. Out of the seven, three of the Government schools are from Quepem and the others are from Canacona, Sattari, Usgao and Sanguem, he stated.
ABOVE BOARD: He said ten centres recorded a pass percentage above the Goa Board average of 83.50. These are: Navelim (93.01%), Ponda (91.6%) Porvorim (90.32%), Mapusa (86.67%), Panjim (85.63%), Mangueshi (85.55%), Vasco (85.5%), Margao (85.23%), Marcel (85.11%) per cent and Quepem (83.61%).
TOPPERS: When media persons asked the Chairman what was the highest score or percentage at this Board exam, he mentioned they were not aware of the same. However, later in the day the three highest scorers were known and hectic activities were on at a local TV channel office in Panjim for an interaction with them.
It was learnt from the news channel, Nandan Kakode from Mahila Nutan High School, Margao, Neha da Rocha from Acdil High School, Porvorim (now renamed as Dona Leonor High School) and Aishwarya Usgaonkar from Mushtifund High School, Panjim, were the first three rankers.
PROUD PARENT: An ecstatic Dr Pramila da Rocha, Neha’s mother, who was getting set to accompany her daughter to the news TV station for the 6.30 pm interaction programme from her Porvorim home said her daughter’s teachers had full confident she would come out with a rank and she did.
Dr Pramila said her daughter had scored full marks in Social Sciences and Science and missed achieving the same in Maths by one mark.
