Slight dip in pass percentage, decline in number of students who got highest grades

Of the total 100 marks, students appeared for a 80-mark paper, along with internal assessment of 20 marks conducted by the respective schools. The overall pass mark is 33. While a student can clear the internal assessment by getting 7 marks, one has to get 26 to clear the 80-mark paper.

“Hardly any school fails a student in internal evaluation, where on an average, a student is awarded 12 to 20 marks. The students were awarded nine grace marks against last year’s five in the 80-mark external paper conducted by the Board,” an official from GSHSEB said.

Though there was not a drastic difference in the overall pass percentage, students who secured the highest grades declined considerably this year. For instance, the highest A1 grade halved from the 12,090 last year to 6,111 this year. The A2 grade, too, saw the figure declining from 52,992 last year to 44,480. While students getting B1 grade decreased from 93,602 to 86,611, for B2, the number dipped from 1,30,097 to 1,27,652.

Among the 7,34,898 regular students, 4,74,893 cleared the Class X examinations held in March. Also, the number of students who failed in two subjects increased by 15,165 since 2022.

Moreover, once again girls outshone boys with a pass percentage of 70.62 against 59.58. The number of schools with 100 per cent result declined from 294 last year to 272 while at the same time, schools where no student managed to clear the exam increased from 121 to 157.

Of the 958 examination centres, Kumbhariya centre in Banaskantha district recorded the highest pass percentage of 95.92 per cent. Utavali centre in Narmada recorded the lowest at 11.94 per cent.

While Sindhi medium schools with total five students secured 100 per cent results, among the three major mediums – Gujarati, English and Hindi – English medium schools recorded the highest pass percentage of 81.9, followed by Hindi at 64.67 and Gujarati at 62.11.

According to subject-wise results, students with English as first language recorded a pass percentage of 95.06, followed by standard maths (94.99) and Sanskrit as second language (90.89). Students secured the lowest pass percentage of 67.72 in Science.

Mathematics, meanwhile, saw the highest number of top scorers. The highest number of students (671) secured 100 marks in basic maths, followed by standard maths (197).

Dahod district, which saw the lowest pass percentage district-wise at 40.75, also witnessed the highest number of schools (22) with 0 per cent result – an increase of 12 when compared to last year.