OdishaPlus Bureau
Board of secondary Education (BSE), Odisha has declared 2019 Matric results from its office today at 9AM. The aggregate pass percentage is 70.78% which is 5% lower as compared to last year’s 76.23%.
A total of 5, 62, 213 students including ex-regular and cc regular had appeared for the annual examinations out of which 3, 97,125 have passed. Following the last year’s trend, this year too girls outshone boys in the Matric results. 2, 05,470 female students have passed in compare to 1, 91,655 males.
1,181 students have been awarded A1 grade while 9938 students secured A2 grade. 24,991 and 46,319 students bagged B1 and B2 grades respectively. While 76,139 students were under C grade, 1, 63,954 students carried F grade in the Annual HSC examinations.
CM Naveen Pattnaik through his official twitter handle congratulated the students who successfully matriculated today.
On asking about the dipping pass percentage, BSE exam controller Nihar Ranjan Mohanty said “teachers should focus on quality education on those schools where results are not up to mark. This year parallel set of questions have been set and strict monitoring has been done which may be the probable reason for lower pass percentage.”
“BSE is planning to install CCTV cameras in all 2900 centres from next year which will result in more transparent examinations”, said Pradipta Mohapatra, Principal Secretary, School and Mass Education, Govt. of Odisha. “Application process for re-checking and addition will start from 24th May through online mode and would continue for 10 days” added BSE President Jahan Ara Begum. While 289 schools have recorded 100% results, 82 schools record nil results.
District wise analysis shows Jharsuguda has recorded highest pass percentage with 85.48% while Koraput the least with 50.61%. The BSE Annual examinations had commenced from February 22 and continued upto March 8.