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| Saturday, May 31, 2008
Marginal rise in pass percentage
Girls again outshine boys in SSLC examination
Chennai: Class X students of the SSLC stream recorded a marginal
increase in pass percentage this year, with 80.9 percent of
the nearly 8 lakh candidates passing the public examination
held in March.
Girls secured a pass percentage of 83.9, once again outshining
boys who scored 77.8 per cent.
As many as 11,605 students of the SSLC stream secured centum
in Mathematics this year, a big leap from last year’s
2,512. The number of centum in Science and Social Science also
increased significantly, to 1,591 and 272.
In the Matriculation stream, over 2,000 students scored centum
in Mathematics.
Queried on the marking scheme adopted for candidates whose answer
sheets (English II) got burnt in a fire in Vellore on April
24, Director of Government Examinations Vasanthi Jeevanandam
said their marks in English I and the average mark of the four
remaining subjects were compared and they were awarded the higher
score of the two..
Top scorers
R. Ram Ambigai of St. Ignatius Convent Higher Secondary School,
Palayamkottai, topped the State in the S.S.L.C. stream with
a total of 496.
V. Abhirami of S.S.M. Lakshmiammal Matriculation Higher Secondary
School, Komarapalayam, emerged topper in the Matriculation stream
with 489.
This year’s Class X results are significant as the State
Government has decided to maintain the maximum total marks of
all streams (SSLC, Matriculation, O.S.L.C. and Anglo Indian)
at 500.
Before the results were compiled, the marks of students from
Matriculation and Anglo Indian streams were converted to percentages
in every subject, enabling the Department to declare the results
with 500 as the maximum total marks for all four streams.
Explaining the methodology of conversion while declaring the
results here on Friday, Ms. Jeevanandam said a candidate in
the Matriculation stream would have taken Language (parts I
and II), English (I and II), Mathematics (I and II), Social
Science (I and II), and Science (I, II and practicals) papers.
The individual marks obtained in part I and II of papers other
than Science were averaged to obtain a percentage. For the science
paper, the marks out of 200 and the score in the practical component
out of 100 were added and divided by three.
For students in the Anglo Indian stream, who took each paper
for 200 marks, individual subject marks were converted to percentages,
for a total of 500.
For the O.S.L.C students, who took their Language paper in three
parts for 100 marks each, their total language score out of
300 was converted to scores out of 200, enabling their total
of 600 till last year to be changed to 500 now.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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