The Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE) on Friday announced the results for Madhyamik (Class 10) examination where 87.54 per cent of 33,729 students qualified for higher studies while 79.27 per cent of 25,350 Class 12 students cleared the Higher Secondary examination.
Students can check their results at the official TBSE website — tbse.tripura.gov.in.
Though the results slightly improved in the Madhyamik category compared to last year, it was rather underwhelming in the higher secondary segment that had scored 83.24 pass percentage.
TBSE president Dhananjoy Gan Choudhury told reporters at Gorkhabasti here that 310 of the 1,083 schools recorded 100 per cent pass, while 16 schools saw zero pass in Class 10.
“We had 86 per cent pass rate in Madhyamik segment last year and the figures have improved over 1 per cent this year. So, the results were a bit better this time,” he said.
Schools in Gomati district has topped the Madhyamik exams with 92.96 percent pass rate, Choudhury added.
In the Higher Secondary segment, out of the 12,015 boys and 13,334 girls who wrote the exam from 408 schools 20,095 passed.
“We had 83.52 per cent pass rate in the Higher Secondary examinations last year. This year the pass rate was a bit low,” Choudhury admitted.
The state board’s pass rate has been in a downward trend since the last two academic years in the Higher Secondary segment.
Besides, only 39 out of 408 schools recorded 100 per cent pass in Class 12 examination, while 13 schools saw zero pass rate in this category this year.
Sepahijala district, which includes a long stretch of Indo-Bangla international border and has often hit the headlines during the government’s crackdown on illegal drugs and human trafficking, emerged topper in the Higher Secondary examination results with 84.25 percent pass rate.
In the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) areas, 85.01 per cent candidates passed Class 10, while 70.57 percent passed the Higher Secondary exams.
‘Bochor Bachao’ option for students
TBSE secretary Dulal Dey said 3,213 out of 4,205 candidates who failed in the Madhyamik examinations, have qualified for the state government’s ‘Bochor Bachao’ scheme, and would be able to sit in a betterment examination in the next two months, and would be certified ‘Madhyamik passed’ if they clear the examination.
A total of 4,235 students who failed in Class 12 have qualified for Bochor Bachao examinations and would get a chance at resetting their board results in two months time.
The board secretary said that mark-sheets would be sent to schools at the earliest, following which review, self inspection and subsequent Bochor Bachao examination dates would be announced.
According to ‘Bochor Bachao’ (save year) scheme introduced by the state government from 2020, students would be guaranteed entry into colleges or into the next class even if they fail in two subjects in board examinations, provided they secure a minimum of 150 marks. They would have to clear a re-test within 75 days of results though to continue higher education.
In the Higher Secondary segment, 98.70 per cent of students passed in the science stream, 83.60 percent students passed in the commerce stream, while 76.42 percent of humanities students passed their school finals.
The Class 10 examinations in Tripura were held between March 2 and March 23 in 145 venues at 69 centers, while the Higher Secondary examinations were held between on March 1 and continued till March 30 in 60 centers in 98 venues.
The evaluation of answer scripts ended on May 12.
Madrasa Alim examination results
In the Madrasa Alim examination conducted as part of the Madhyamik examinations, 99 out of 130 candidates emerged as passed. In the Class 12 category, all 22 students who appeared in the Madrasa arts examination cleared the exams while 48 out of 49 who appeared in the Madrasa theology examination passed.
A candidate who appeared in his Madhyamik examinations from correctional center at Dhalai district also qualified for higher studies.
Stating that the results were better than expected, Dhananjoy Gan Choudhury said, “We were pained to see that our results weren’t as expected when the CBSE results were announced earlier this year and we figured that the effect would be seen on TBSE results as well since 125 top grade schools that used to be under the state education board earlier were shifted to CBSE. We thought the results of the second tier schools might not be that good but the results weren’t such”.
A total of 125 schools under the state board were brought under the affiliation of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to improve the quality education in 2022 as part of the Vidyajyoti project. With a vast number of students showing poor results, protests sparked across the state in the past few days over the government’s policy.
Kokborok controversy
The Tripura state board examinations also had its share of controversies as the state board chief went back on his words thrice over the choice of script for writing Kokborok examinations. The state government finally stepped in and said the examinations for Kokborok, the lingua franca of majority of the state’s tribal population, would be conducted in both Bangla and Roman scripts.
The controversy started after the board president said it would not allow students to write their Kokborok paper answers in Roman script, citing lack of sufficient qualified evaluators.
After an indefinite strike across the state, the board finally announced that it would allow both Roman and Bengali script for writing the answers of Kokborok paper.
Class 12 students cleared the Higher Secondary examination. (Representational image) 
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