The Class 10th or matric exam 2019 result of Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) was announced on Saturday in which 80.73% students have passed.

The pass percentage is 11.84% higher than last year’s pass percentage of 68.89%. This year 16,35, 070 candidates appeared in the examination, out of which 8,08,736 were boys and 8,26,334 were girls.

In the matric result announced on Saturday, 2,90,666 students secured first division, 5,56,131 second division and 4, 54, 450 got third division . The number of students who failed in the BSEB Matric examination this year is 3,14,813. The number of students who were expelled from the examination is 221.

A total of 13,20,036 passed the exam in which 6,83,990 are boys and 6,36,046 girls.

BSEB chairman Anand Kishor and additional chief secretary of Bihar Education Department RK Mahajan Jointly declared the BSEB Class 10 results.

The Bihar board matric examination was held between February 21 and 28, 2019 at 1418 examination Centres in the state.

This year 16,60,609 students registered for the BSEB matric examination in the state, out of which 8,37,075 were girls and 8,23,534 were boys.

After grand increase in the pass percentage and first divisions in the intermediate examinations, 2019 of the Bihar school examination board (BSEB), expectations were high about a repeat in the class 10 board exam results.

With nearly 25-lakh students failing in class 10 and 12 board exams in 2017-18 in the State, the teachers, the board as well as the government were under relentless attack from the opposition over quality of education in schools.

Last year also, there was increase in the pass percentage, which reached 68.89 % from an abysmal 50.12% in 2017 and 53.33% in 2016. However, in 2015, the pass percentage was 75%.

First Published: Apr 06, 2019 13:08 IST