PANJIM: A record 92.69 per cent students cleared the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination 2019-20, which is marginally higher than the pass percentage of 2019 that had stood at 92.47. While 18,939 students appeared for the examination conducted by the Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (GBSHSE), 17,554 cleared it.
In view of the COVID outbreak, the SSC examinations, annually held in April, were delayed and were conducted from May 21 to June 6, at a time when new coronavirus cases were increasing in the State. The exams were held across 23 centres and 173 sub-centres, of which four were in Maharashtra and two bordering Karnataka.
As an annual trend, the results saw girls outshine boys with an overall passing percentage of 93.27. Boys were at 92.08 per cent. The results saw cent per cent marks being scored by students in mathematics, science and social science.
The result saw almost 118 schools, including 35 government-run, securing cent per cent result for Class X. Last year 98 schools had scored 100 per cent results.
While 21.08 per cent students managed to score between 75 and 100 percent overall marks, 33.51 per cent students scored first class with pass percentage between 60 and 74, and 35.79 per cent candidates obtained second class and range between 45 and 59 per cent. Only 8.82 per cent students are in the pass class division scoring between 33 and 44 per cent marks.
Announcing the results, GBSHSE chairman Ramakrishna Samant said that for the academic year 2019-20, the total pass percentage is 92.69 per cent, which is almost the same to 2019.
Samant said that of the 9620 girl students, who answered the exams, 8973 cleared it with a pass percentage of 93.27, and 8581 boys cleared the exams out of 9319 who appeared with a pass percentage of 92.08.
“Since the last five years, the pass percentage has seen an increasing trend, which can be attributed to students’ performance along with benefits of grace, sports and internal marks,” Samant said.
Though, 7073 students had applied to avail sports marks, only 273 candidates passed using the sports merit marks. The percentage of students passing with sports merit marks is just 1.56.
Mangueshi centre (98.06 per cent) recorded the highest passing percentage, while Quepem centre recorded the lowest (86.85percent).
