Girls continued to outshine boys in SSLC-2010

Girls continued to outshine boys in SSLC-2010


The score card reads 619 out of 625—that’s the top score in this year’s SSLC exam, Karnataka. Three students, two from Bangalore South and one from Mysore, have cracked this score. An overall pass percentage of many students has been 63.56% in this exam.
The new model introduced by the Karnataka Secondary Examinations Evaluation Board (KSEEB) gives more weightage to descriptive answers than to multiple choice questions. The results have been satisfactory this year.Of the total of 8,20,778 candidates who had appeared for the SSLC examinations held last month, 5,21,658 candidates passed.
There’s been a rise and dip in the pass percentage in the previous years. In 2008, it fell to 66.37% and in 2009, it crossed the 70% mark with 70.22%. The students taking the exam this year were under pressure owing to the new exam pattern. Till 2009, students could score 60% marks in multiple choice questions, an easy scoring option versus the new pattern, which reserved 75% marks for descriptive answers. As compared to last year’s overall pass percentage of 75.77, this year only 68.77 per cent of the 8, 20,778 students who had appeared for the exams passed. The success rate is the lowest in the last four years.However, girls continued to outshine boys this year, too, with their pass percentage standing at 70.97 per cent as compared to 66.67 per cent among boys.
SSLC examinations were held at 2,895 centres across the state. The Evaluation started on 15 April 2010 with 39,000 evaluators.


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