Of the 9,48,153 students who appeared for the intermediate first year and second year examinations across Telangana, 5,93,291 passed.
Minister for Education P. Sabitha Indra Reddy announced the results here on Tuesday with Commissioner Collegiate Education Navin Mittal in attendance.
While 4,82,675 students appeared from both general and vocational colleges for the Intermediate first year examinations, as many as 2,97,741 passed, pegging the total pass percentage to 61.68%. Girls outperformed boys as 68.68% of those who appeared passed, as against the boys’ pass percentage of 54.66%.
Similarly, 4,65,478 students appeared for the Intermediate second year examinations out of which 2,95,550 passed. The total pass percentage stood at 63.49%. As was the trend seen among first year students, the pass percentage of girl students was higher than that of boys. While girls’ pass percentage was 71.57%, that of boys was 55.60%.
Drop in percentage
As compared to last year, the pass percentage for the general stream for first year students saw a drop — from 64.85% to 62.85%. The drop in the pass percentage for second year students was from 68.68% recorded last to to this year’s 67.27%.
The Minister congratulated all those who passed. She urged students who could not make it through to not despair and make use of the advanced supplementary examinations which begin on June 4 in two sessions. Students can pay the fee from May 10 to May 16 at their respective colleges.
Govt. colleges fare better
Sharing data, she pointed out that students studying in government-run junior colleges have fared better than those studying in private junior colleges. While the pass percentage of those studying in private junior colleges was around 63%, the pass percentage of those studying in government residential junior colleges was 92%, in social welfare junior colleges was 89%, backward classes welfare junior colleges was 87%, tribal welfare junior colleges was 84% and minorities residential junior colleges was 83%.
Tele-MANAS initiative
Mr. Mittal said that trained psychologists and psychiatrist are available as a part of the Tele-MANAS initiative which seeks to provide counselling to students round-the-clock in case they feel stress, strain or anxiety. These professionals can be contacted on a toll free number – 14416.
Results can be accessed at the following websites: https://tsbie.cgg.gov.in and https://results.cgg.gov.in. Principals of junior colleges can access results at https://tsbie.cgg.gov.in. They are required to enter the ID and password provided by the board.
Principals can also access and download online memorandum of marks and tabulation registers using their college login. Meanwhile, students have been advised to download and take a coloured printout the online memorandum of marks from tsbie.cgg.gov.in.
Students wanting to apply for recounting, reverification have been instructed to pay online an amount of ₹100 per paper. Those who are desirous of getting their papers scanned copy-cum-reverification of answer books are required to pay ₹600 per paper. Payment should be from May 10 to May 16 at https://tsbie.cgg.gov.in.
The intermediate examinations were conducted in 1,473 centres across Telangana. As many as 26,000 invigilators were pressed into service and 13,000 persons evaluated answer scripts at 15 spot valuation centres.
