Record 82.29 % pass SSLC examinations

Setting an all-time record, 82.29 per cent of the total 4,58,763 candidates who appeared for the SSLC examinations held last March qualified made the grade.

Announcing the results, Education Minister MA Baby told newsmen that this year's qualifying level surpassed the previous best pass percentage of 70.06 in 2004.In the new private scheme, 52.43 per cent candidates qualified and in the old scheme the percentage of qualifying candidates was 35.83.

Unlike the previous years, only grades will be recorded in the SSLC certificate this time.
In the regular scheme, 4,269 candidates scored A-plus grade, 20,208 A, 50,441 B-plus, 95,979 B, 1,62,167 C-plus, 2,54,650 C, 3,76,386 D-plus, 71,924 D and 6,076 E.

The performance of 104 schools, identified for special attention in view of their poor showing last year, had scored impressive results this year.Five of them produced cent per cent results at the qualifying level, 13 schools 90 per cent and 47 schools 70. They included seven schools from Lakshadweep . There are no schools where the percentage of qualifying students is below ten.
For these schools, the Government had made a special budgetary provision of Rs 5 crore. The role of teachers, local bodies and parents were also significant in lifting these schools.
The Education Minister said the schools in the State were able to set an all-time record as the 104 schools, which were backward in education, were brought under a special scheme by the Government. Introduction of this scheme in other schools was under consideration too, said the Minister.

Baby said that the SAY (save a year) examinations would be held in June and the students of the old scheme, who had failed to achieve qualifying grades, would get a last chance to write the examinations nest September .

Kannur district registered the best performance in the State with 90.75 percent of all the students who appeared for examination attaining the qualifying grades. Kottayam district stood second in the list with 88.26 percent with Thrissur coming third with 87.83 percent. Kozhikode district, where 86.30 percent of the students qualifying for higher studies and Ernakulam came in the fifth position with 86.05 percent pass. Palakkad district stood at the bottom of the list in performance with 72.36 percent of the students qualifying for higher studies.

The percentage of students who qualified for higher studies from Waynad district was 75.50, 76.62 for Malapppuram, 77.36 for Kollam and 78.25 percent of the students qualified for higher studies in Thiruvananthapuram district.

Only five schools have registered less than 33 percent qualifying level, and of these three are in Lakshadweep and two in Kerala. The two schools in the State where less than 33 percent students qualified for higher studies are Government PTM High Scholl in Velloor, Kottayam and Government Higher Secondary School , Vellamanal in Kollam.

Girls proved their supremacy over boys in the SSLC examinations. They outscored the boys in the percentage of students qualifying for higher studies in the State and district levels as well as in attaining the top score, A-plus. The number of girls who scored A-plus was almost double the number of boys. In Thrissur district, out of the total 538 students, who scored A-plus, only 138 boys made it to the category.