Odisha notched up top honours

CBSE Class X: Odisha tops eastern region

  Express News Service , The New Indian Express

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BHUBANESWAR: Odisha notched up top honours in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class X examination by securing a whopping 99.48 pass percentage, highest in the eastern zone. Also in keeping with the trend, girls outshone boys.

� The results were announced on Thursday afternoon after keeping students on their toes as the online declaration took two more hours. Due to technical glitch, the results, expected at 4 pm, were available only after 6 pm.

As many as 13,644 students had appeared in CBSE examination in the State out of which 13,573 students passed, taking the pass percentage close to 99.5 per cent.

�The students performed exceedingly well not only in comparison to the previous year but also in the Bhubaneswar region which includes two neighbouring states. The pass percentage of Chhattisgarh was 99.13 and West Bengal stood at 98.95.

�“This year, the performance of the students form Odisha has been better than the two other states in the zone. Another good news is that the girls have yet again outshone the boys in terms of quality,” said CBSE joint secretary and regional officer MVV Prasada Rao.

�At least 18,884 girls in the Eastern Zone had appeared for the CBSE examination this year. The percentage of girls scoring 75 per cent and above was 47.36, whereas it was 41.92 for boys.

�The Board has done away with the percentage scoring pattern beginning this year and has brought in the grade system in its place. Most of the students scored grade A or A+. After CBSE changed the evaluation format to Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE), the trend of toppers has vanished.

�“We got rid of the marking system as it was the major reason for stress among the students. It did not matter if the students scored 98 per cent, just securing one mark less than the topper was always discouraging, not celebrated because he failed to be the topper,” explained Rao. The CCE format of evaluation eliminates any such discrimination.

�It was also found that the students from the Jawaharlal Navodaya Vidyalaya in the State performed better than other schools with around 66.48 per cent students scoring distinction and above.

�They were followed by the students of Kendriya Vidyalaya where around 41.76 per cent students scored above 75 per cent. Around 43.28 per cent of the students of the independent schools combined have scored more than distinction.

�It was also found out that this year more students preferred to take the examinations conducted and evaluated by the schools instead of the CBSE as compared to the last year.