Over all 55.55% pass class 12 general, commerce and sanskrit exams of Gujarat board

Gandhinagar:

Overall 55.55% of the more than 4.74 lakh examines of class 12 General (including Sanskrit) and commerce stream exam of Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board have passed the exam conducted in March this year.

The board today announced the results which has also been published on the website of the board www.gseb.org.

The pass percentage this year was 1.27% less than that of last year. However the number of schools with 100% result has seen more than double-fold increase this time with 206 from 81. Like was the A 1 and A 2 graders have also seen an increase at 451 (only 257 last year) and 8245 (7054 last year) respectively.

Dang in South Gujarat has emerged as the best result giver district with the highest pass percentage of 77.32% while Chhota Udepur was the worst performer at the lowest 31.54%. Nanpur Blind center in Surat district with 100% result has emerged as the best center while Lunawada in Mahisagar the worst at 11.74%.

Girls with 74.78% have again outperformed the boys whose pass percentage was lower at 63.71%.

Pass percentage for Gujarati medium students is 54.03 while that of English medium was 77.37%.

Board Chairman Ajay Shah and Exam Secretary of the board R J Junakiya said that a total of 4,74,507 students including 3,35825 regular ones, 56,578 repeat examines and 67,403 private/external students over 4.49 lakh had appeared in the exam. The pass percentage for regular students was 68.96% which last year was 76.31%. The general streams pass % was 55.52.

In the commerce and Sanskrit (Uchchatar Uttar Buniyadi) stream the pass percentage is 52.29% (62.62% last year) and 61.27% (60.10% last year). Overall the pass % is 55.55. In commerce stream a little over 1100 students while in Sanskrit stream 3000 students had appeared in the exam.
The mark-sheets would be distributed at various centers made for the purpose across the state from 1100 hrs to 1600 hrs today.

The board had on May 28 declared its SSC (matriculation) 2018 exam results while on May 10 results of class 12 Science stream exam were announced.

District-wise result is as follows –

AHMEDABAD(CITY) 61.79 AHMEDABAD(RURAL) 61.14 AMRELI 52.84 KUTCHH 67.39 KHEDA 56.37 JAMNAGAR 59.52 JUNAGADH 50.61 DANG 77.32 PANCHMAHAL 48.61 BANASKANTHA 63.28 BHARUCH 61.42 BHAVNAGAR 55.69 MAHESANA 59.70 RAJKOT 60.84 VADODARA 57.19 VALSAD 52.11 SABARKANTHA 46.15 SURAT 67.42 SURENDRANAGAR 51.44 CENTRAL ADMN 45.85 ANAND 50.53 PATAN 52.23 NAVSARI 65.04 DAHOD 37.51 PORBANDAR 44.44 NARMADA 38.57 GANDHINAGAR 55.08 TAPI 56.11 ARAVALLI 49.60 BOTAD 52.55 CHHOTAUDEPUR 31.54 DEVBHUMIDWARKA 51.11 GIRSOMNATH 47.86 MAHISAGAR 32.69 MORBI 56.40 DIV 55.79.

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