Chandigarh, May 6:The UT witnessed a jump of 17.84 per cent in the pass percentage as 84.05 per cent students cleared the Class X CBSE exam, results of which were declared today.
Last year, 34 per cent students failed and the city had to content with 66.21pass percentage. There was a fall by 30 per cent in the pass percentage last year — from 96.27 per cent in 2016-17 to 66.21 per cent in 2017-18.As many as 17,338 students had taken the exams out of which, 14,573 have passed.
The overall pass percentage of the Panchkula region — J&K, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana — improved by 6.07 per cent — from 87.65 last year to 93.72 now. A total of 2,54,259 candidates — 1,47,858 boys and 1,06,401 girls — appeared for exams out of which, 2,38,283 made their way through the exams.
UT at bottom again
Jammu and Kashmir topped the Panchkula region with a pass percentage of 98.51, followed by Himachal Pradesh (97.28), Haryana (94.18), Punjab (93.85) and Chandigarh with 84.05 pass percentage.
Improvement
J&K pass percentage improved by 2.23 per cent whereas Himachal Preadesh results jumped by 2.83 per cent. A major improvement was witnessed in Chandigarh region — 17.84 per cent — followed by 5.64 per cent in Haryana, 4.9 per cent in Punjab.
