The overall pass percentage for the division rose to 92.9%
Mumbai : The pass percentage for the Mumbai division of the SSC examination rose to 92.9 per cent and the Mumbai division was ranked the fourth top division in the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE). Officials said that the Mumbai division’s result is more significant than the Konkan division, which ranked first in pass percentage.
A Mumbai division officer who wished not to be named said, “Mumbai division’s HSC and SSC results in general are low as compared to the Konkan division due to multiple reasons. The prominent reason is that the number of students appearing from the Mumbai division is many times more than that of the Konkan division.”
In the March 2015 SSC examinations, only 39,787 students had appeared from the Konkan division. But in the Mumbai division, an estimated 3,26,275 students had appeared for the examinations, which is eight times more than that of the Konkan division.
Education officials said, “Normally, students who cannot go to regular schools prefer to appear for the examination privately. Since they don’t attend regular schools or classes, naturally, their performance in the examination is poor. So the pass percentage of private students is usually the lowest.”
This time, an estimated 39,063 students out of a total of 59,355 students who had appeared privately for the SSC examination were from the Mumbai division. Out of these 39,063 children, only 48.82 per cent students passed, which, naturally, had affected the overall pass percentage of the division.
According to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) education officials, an estimated 10,781 municipal school students had appeared for the SSC examination, out of which only 7,820 students passed the examination. Overall, the municipal school’s pass percentage was 72.54 per cent, which is almost 20 per cent below the average result of the board.
And in one particular school in the Mumbai division, the pass percentage was zero — not a single student of this school passed the examination.
Students who fail in two subjects to be admitted into class XI
The state education board had announced a facility of allowing a term (ATKT) to be kept for SSC students who had failed in two subjects in the March 2015 examination. These students will be allowed to take admission into class XI. These students have to clear the remaining subjects in the October examinations of the latest batch. If a student fails to clear the remaining subjects, then his or her admission for class XI will stand cancelled.
Hospitalised student scores 90.4 per cent
Kavya Prasad, a student of Swami Vivekanand High School and Junior College Chembur, who has been medically unfit since class IX, scored 90.4 per cent in the SSC examination. During her academic year, she was admitted to hospital on several occasions. School authorities said that even on the day of the result on Monday, she was in hospital.
