At 83.75%,pass percentage best in the last 12 years

Board secretary and director (Secondary Education) Vasudev Yadav said today that the healthy pass percentage was a result of the board adopting the 70:30 ratio for evaluating students.

“The students were not burdened by theory too much,which carried weightage of 70 marks. The rest of 30 marks were awarded for project work given to the students throughout the year. They were not tense and it shows in the results,” said Yadav.

“As far as the performance in the last 10 to 12 years is concerned,this is the best. We are yet to go through records to say whether this is the best ever,” said Vinod Krishna,Additional Secretary,UP board.

The pass percentage in 2001 was only 34.61 per cent,which improved to around 40 per cent in the next two years. In 2004,it went up to 70.61 per cent,reaching a high of 74.41 per cent in 2007. However,in 2008,it dropped again to 40.07 per cent. In 2009,2010 and 2011,the pass percentage improved to 56.67 per cent,70.79 per cent and 70.82 per cent,respectively.

In order to prevent large-scale copying,the board used numbered answer papers to ensure they were not interchanged. This was done especially in 10 districts — Allahabad,Kaushambi,Hathras,Aligarh,Etah,Azamgarh,Mau,Ballia,Ghazipur and Deoria — which had become notorious for mass copying.

Overall,37,41,380 students registered for the examinations,while 35,59,196 students took the tests. The pass percentage for boys was 79.61 per cent,while that of girls was 88.95 per cent. Last year,a total of 22,93,804 students passed the test.

The results of 2,915 students have been withheld after they were found allegedly using unfair means like cheating. Last year,this number was 9,205. At least 475 prisoners participated in the examinations,of which 387 passed,with a pass percentage of 81.5.

There were a total of 112 schools,including eight government schools,where the results were less than 20 per cent.

Subject-wise,anthropology and Persian had 100 per cent results. Urdu,with a total of 1,02,553 students appearing,had 92.47 per cent result.