99.7% clear SSC, 67 students in Goa fail school assessment

PANAJI: Barring only 67 students across the state, 99.7% or 23,900 of the students in Class X of the Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education cleared the year. The board declared the results on Monday based on the tabulation of marks carried out by individual school result committees.
“Of the 67 students, only two were girls,” Goa Board chairman Bhagirath Shetye said. The result saw nearly every school achieve a cent percent pass percentage.
The 67 students have been allowed to keep terms (ATKT) and will get an opportunity to clear their Class X at a supplementary exam to be held by their schools this year for which the board will provide the sample question papers.
The 2021 pass percentage is almost six percent higher than last year’s pass percentage of 92.7%, when a public exam was held. The Class X public exam for 2021 was cancelled due to the pandemic.
“These 67 students did not clear the year because they had not appeared for some or the other internal assessment so their result could not add up to 33%. There are nearly no cases where students appeared for all assessments conducted, but did not clear,” Shetye said.
The board chairman said that almost all could clear Class X this year as internal evaluations carried out by schools were taken into account. He, however, said that it was ensured that the scores were in line with the schools’ past performance.
“Schools have evaluated students based on internal assessments, which were focused on certain topics so students have done well. We had given schools their last three years’ historical score and it has been ensured that students have retained their subject average as per the institute’s past performance. All schools have retained their subject average. It was a well-thought model adopted after research,” Shetye said.
As per the formula for tabulation of marks provided by the board to schools, students’ score at the formative I, formative II, and other internal tests, besides preliminary exams conducted by schools, were taken into account. Some weightage was also given to the students’ performance in Class IX.
This year, Class X saw the highest enrolment at 23,967 and for the first time, more boys (3,011) than girls (10,956) had registered.
Board statistics showed that it was not just a case of students clearing the exam in bulk, they also scored well. The maximum number of nearly 10,300 students scored a first class with nearly 4,400 securing a distinction. Across all 12 talukas, the number of students who scored first class was higher.
For the first time, mathematics was split for Class X students into maths level 1 and 2. Mathematics level 2 was for students wanting to pursue the science stream. The average marks scored by students at Class X was the lowest in mathematics level 2 (45.5) and science (40.4), among all subjects.
Students, who opted for the easier mathematics level 1, scored 63.5 out of 100 on an average, indicating that the option could have helped a higher number of students score better at Class X.
The highest number of 5,085 candidates registered for Class X in Salcete taluka and the lowest of 415 in Dharbandora taluka.
Most of the 67 students who could not clear Class X were from Tiswadi and Quepem talukas.