66.97% results for Gujarat board 10th exam

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSEB) today declared its results of class 10 exam held in March this year with an overall pass percentage of 66.97% which was slightly below that of 67.50% of last year.

Girl students with 72.64% of pass percentage have left the boys (62.83%) way behind.

Surat district has again become the district with best results with 79.63% while Chhota Udepur was at the lowest rung again in this regard with just 46.38%. Center-wise Supasi in Gir Somnath district has topped in percentage tally with 95.96% while Tad in the same district has become the worst performing center with mere 17.63%.

The pass percentage for English medium was 88.11% while that for Gujarat medium was 64.58% which was much below that of Hindi medium result of 72.66%.

Board Chairman A J Shah said that of the total 822823 regular candidates appearing in the exam 551023 have passed.

366 schools have given 100% result while in 63 schools it was nil ie no student has passed.

Pass percentage among the repeat candidates was 17.23% while that for privately appeared candidates was 10.13%.

The results have also been put on the board’s web site www.gseb.org for viewing online.

District wise result percentage is as follows –
AHMEDABAD CITY 72.45%, AHMEDABAD RURAL 70.24%, AMRELI 61.65%,ANAND 59.81%, ARAVALI 66.97%,BANASKANTHA 68.59%,BHARUCH 66.24%, BHAVNAGAR 66.19%, BOTAD 63.84%,CHHOTA UDEPUR 46.38%, DAHOD 49.18%, DANGS 68.72%, DEVBHUMI DWARKA 70.32%, GANDHINAGAR 71.98%, GIR SOMNATH 70.28%, JAMNAGAR 70.61%, JUNAGADH 70.81%, KHEDA 57.37%, KUTCH 65.46%, MAHISAGAR 53.06%, MEHSANA 67.92%, MORBI 74.09%, NARMADA 66.56%, NAVSARI 67.40%, PANCHMAHAL 51.81%, PATAN 59.53%, PORBANDAR 62.61%, RAJKOT 73.92%, SABARKANTHA 63.04%, SURAT 79.63%, SURENDRANAGAR 69.26%, TAPI 62.79%, VADODARA 67.03%,VALSAD 62.98%, DIV 58.48%, DAMAN 77.41%, DADARA NAGAR HAVELI 52.69%.