At 93.12%, the overall percentage of students passing the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 10 exam, the results of which were announced on Friday, decreased by 1.28 percentage points compared to last year’s 94.40%.
This was the first time after 2019 that the exam was conducted in annual mode. However, the pass percentage increased by 2.02 percentage points as compared to the pre-pandemic year 2019 (91.10%).
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Explaining the trend, CBSE’s Controller of Examinations, Sanyam Bhardwaj said, “For both class 12 and 10, the results are comparable only to 2019, when the exams were last conducted for all subjects in the annual mode. Last year, the exam was conducted in two terms with a different evaluation system and hence the pass percentage was higher.”
Amidst the boom of the Omicron wave and to avoid the repetition of the last two years, CBSE decided to conduct the exams in two sessions in 2022 for the first time. The first session was conducted in objective format and the second in subjective format. All subjects, with a gap of several months between two terms. The board gave a weightage of 30:70 to the term one and term two exam performance of the students to arrive at the final result.
In both 2020 and 2021, the exams either could not be conducted or had to be canceled midway due to the intensity of the COVID waves, and an alternate evaluation mechanism was used instead. Classes were not held and learning was lacking due to the prolonged Covid-induced lockdown.
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According to CBSE, a total of 21,84,117 registered for the exam while 21,65,805 appeared for the exam out of which 20,16,779 took the exam this year. The exam was conducted between February 15 to March 21. Last year, 21,09,208 students had registered of which 20,93,978 appeared for it and 19,76,668 passed successfully.
Keeping up with this trend, girls have again outperformed boys by 1.98% this year. The overall pass percentage of girls is 94.25%, while it is 92.27% for boys. For transgender students, the pass percentage stood at 90%.
In the national capital, the overall pass percentage was 89.48%, a marginal increase from last year’s 89.24%.
The data shows that private schools across the country have performed better in both class 10 and 12 exam performance than government and government-aided schools. Like previous years, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JKV) performed best among all schools.
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Why dip?
According to teachers, the slight decline is due to the change in the mode of evaluation, as both class 10 and 12 took the exam in full annual mode, unlike last year. Also, another important factor is the Common University Entrance Test (CUET), on the basis of which admission to all undergraduate courses is done, unlike the earlier cut-off system. CUET was implemented in all Central Universities for the first time last year.
Jyoti Arora, principal of Mount Abu Public School in Delhi, said, “During the last two-three years, the Covid-19 pandemic induced a lot of learning loss for students across the spectrum. Private schools have performed better than government schools. Also, for class 10, it was the first time she wrote full board exams and her writing practice was very less. Furthermore, their learning gap was greater because, in the years of the pandemic, they were in classes 7-9, which are the base years for preparation.”
He said that one of the major factors for the slight drop in class 12 results is that nowadays students are focusing more on clearing CUET, as class 12 results have no significance for admission to undergraduate courses.
“Students are very clear that they have to clear CUET to get admission in the college. So many coaching centers have also come up which offer complete programs to crack the entrance exams. So, Class 12 marks do not matter much to them now.”