64.6% students clear GSHSEB Class 10 exam

The Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) on Thursday declared 64.62% result, marginally lesser than the previous year.

While there was no major dip in the pass percentage as compared to the last year, the long shadow of Covid on school education reflected in the result as the number of students who got A1 grades dropped sharply by 50%.

In 2022, 12,090 students had got A1 grade while only 6,111 students got the coveted grade this year. More girls -- 70.62%cleared the exam as compared to 59.58% boys.

Science, mathematics and even languages played spoilsport for lakhs of Class X students this year.

The highest number of failures, 2.37 lakh, was reported in science followed by 1.97 lakh flunking standard and basic maths.

The results of the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) Class 10 exams were declared on Thursday, and showed that pandemic continues to hurt students' academic performances.

The success rate of Class 10 students this year was 64.62%, which is 0.56 of a percentage point than in 2022.

The number of students scoring over 90% marks or getting the A1 grade fell drastically.

This year, 6,111 students got the A1 grade by scoring 90%, which was half the number in 2022. A total 12,090 students had got the A1 grade in 2022.

Experts said that as seen in the Class 12 science stream results, the worse showing was the effect of learning loss due to online education during the Covid lockdowns.

Of the 7.35 lakh regular students who took the SSC examination, 4.75 lakh or 64.62% passed.