Results spring many surprises

By Sanjay R Murty

Bengaluru: The Secondary School Leaving Examination results, which were announced on Thursday, threw up a lot of surprises. Here is a comparison of this year’s results with that of 2020.

Top scorers increase
This year 145 students scored 100 percent marks (625 out of 625). Out of these, 21 students are from government schools, eight are from aided schools and 116 are from unaided schools.

Only 11 students scored cent percent in 2020
Full scorers more in social science The number of students scoring maximum marks in languages has doubled this year, as compared to 2020. The increase is even more drastic for mathematics, science and social science. In 2020, 4,250 students had secured full marks (100) in Social Science. The number stands at 50,782 this year. In mathematics, 13,683 scored full marks this year (1,817 students in 2020). In science, 6,592 got cent percent (924 in 2020).

Girls’s show continues
This year too, girls have fared better than boys with pass percentages of 92.44% and 86.34%, respectively. In 2020, the percentages were 71.95 and 80.51 for boys and girls, respectively.

Govt schools fare well
88% of Government-school students have passed this year while the percentage is 87.84 among aided and 92.29 among unaided schools of the state.

Kannada medium on top
The pass percentage among Kannada medium students increased from 71.15 in 2020 to 87.65 in 2022. Hindi medium has seen the sharpest increase of 32% between 2020 and 2022 with 105 students passing the exam this year. Tamil medium, however, fared badly with the pass percentage decreasing from 60.32 in 20202 to 50 in 2022.

Category 3A reigns supreme
1,40,035 students(86.80) from Scheduled Castes and 55,492 (88.96%) from Scheduled Tribes passed SSLC this year. Category 3A has recorded the highest pass percentage (94.86) among the various social categories of the state.

More schools in 100 percent club
The number of schools securing 100% results has doubled between 2020 and 2022. In 2020, 1,790 schools recorded a 100% pass percentage. This year, the number stood at 3,920. The number of all-fail schools decreased to just 20 this year, compared to 61 in 2020.

A-Plus winners soar
1,18,875 students (16.48 percent) scored A-Plus grade (between 90 percent and 100 percent marks). This is a huge jump compared to 2020 when only 6.79 percent of students got A-Plus grade.

1,82,600 got A-grade (between 80 percent and 89 percent) while 1,73,528 students got B-Plus grade (between 70 and 79 percent) Other grades: B (60-69 percent): 1,43,900; C-Plus (50-59 percent): 87,801; C (35-49 percent): 14,627.

Bengaluru South gets B Grade
KSEEB also graded the state’s 34 educational districts based on their performance. 32 districts have been given the A grade (75-100%) and 2 have been given B (60-75%).

Surprisingly, Bengaluru South Educational District is one of the two districts (the other being Yadgiri) which have secured a B grade.

Good show by differentlyabled
80.61% of differently-abled candidates have passed SSLC this year. 500 children with Specific learning disability, 486 mentally challenged, 577 visually impaired, 799 hearing impaired, 955 physically challenged, 27 spastic and 9 dyslexic children have passed the exam.