This year, 91.55% of students have registered a pass in the Class X State board exams, according to the results released by the Directorate of Government Examination (DGE), on Friday. Ariyalur district tops the list at 97.3%, while Sivaganga district is second at 97% and Ramanathapuram district third at 96.3%.
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This year’s pass percentage has surpassed last year’s 91.39% by a small margin. However, the total number of students who took the exam this year has fallen from last year’s 9,14,320 to 8,94,260 students this year.
As many as 4,22,591 girls and 3,96,152 boys wrote the exams from a total of 12,616 schools. Girls outperformed boys with 94.53% while the boys were at 88.58%. This shows a 5.85% difference in the pass percentage.
Taking to the X social media platform, School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi congratulated the students and urged those who scored less marks to write the upcoming supplementary exams.
Out of the 12,625 schools in the State, 4,105 schools and 1,364 government schools recorded a 100% pass. As many as 20,691 students scored a centum in Mathematics while 5,104 students scored a centum in science. In Tamil, only eight centums were recorded while English saw 415 centums.
This year private schools have outperformed others with 97.43% with girls-only schools coming second at 93.8%.
Meanwhile, 13,510 disabled candidates wrote the exams with 12,491 clearing the exam at 92.45% pass rate. As many as 228 prison inmates in the State passed the exam out of the total 260 who wrote the exam.
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin also congratulated the students in a post on X platform and said, “To pursue higher education in vocational or others, there are platforms like the Naan Mudhalvan scheme which the students should take advantage of.”
Supplementary exam
The Directorate of Government Examinations in a press release stated that students can take up the Class X supplementary exams from July 2 and those who pass it would be eligible for higher education from this academic year itself.
Students can apply to download a scanned copy of their answer paper from their schools from May 20. Further, schools can download the provisional certificate from May 13 from the website, the press release added.
