Only 57% students pass PSEB Class X exam

Tribune News Service 

Chandigarh, May 22 

No grace marks awarded, every second boy and every third girl appearing for the Class X Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) exam has failed to make it. The result was declared today. 

As in the case of Class XII  exams, the pass percentage this year has fallen from 72.25 to 57.50. A total of 3,30,437 students had appeared in the exam.  Shruti Vohra of Ropar topped with 98.7 per cent.

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About 28.53 per cent students have failed in one or more subjects (compartment). Of the 1,83,979 boys and 1 46,458 girls, only 96,315 (52.35 per cent) and 93,686 (63.97 per cent), have passed. 

It is clear the board had in the past inflated the pass percentage by awarding grace marks, placing 15-20 per cent students in the “pass” category. “Had we given grace marks, most pupils with compartment would have passed,” the board chairman said.