71.90% clear HSC science Gujarat Board examination

AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) on Thursday declared 71.90% HSC science stream result. The result is around 1.09% less as compared to last year, where 72.99% students had passed the exam.

This was the second result where the students were judged on the class XII results only. In March 2017, it was the last semester IV examination conducted by the board. The Gujarat Government had from June 2017 scrapped the semester system and had decided to have only one examination and that is of class XII.

A total of 89,069 students out of 1,23,860 students who appeared for the class 12th (science) examination were declared pass by the board.

Students in A group with mathematics posted 78.92% result while the result of B group students with biology was 67.26%.

The girls have once again outnumbered the boys and have performed better than the boys. The pass out percentage of the girls was more than that of the boys. While the pass out percentage was 72.01% for the girls, it was 71.83% for the boys.

English-medium students once again fared better than their Gujarati medium counterparts posting 75.13% pass our percentage. The same for Gujarati medium was 71.09%.

Out of total nearly 139 centres where the examination was conducted, the result of Dhrol in Jamnagar was the highest at 91.60% while that of Bodeli centre in Chhota Udepur was the lowest at 27.19 per cent, GSEB said. This is the second consecutive year that Dhrol has topped the centre chart while Bodeli was as the bottom of the chart.

Among districts, Rajkot secured the highest pass percentage at 84.47% per cent while tribal-dominated Chhota Udepur district recorded the lowest percentage at 29.81%.

A total of 35 schools recorded 100 per cent results, down from 42 in 29018 and 117 such schools in 2017. The number of schools securing 10 per cent or lower pass percentage also increased to 49 compared to 29 schools last year, the GSEB said.