Arindam Ganguly, OP
Bhubaneswar: School and Mass Education Minister Badri Narayan Patra Saturday announced the results of Plus II arts, commerce and vocational examinations conducted by the Odisha Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) in 2018 in which four students had scored above 90 per cent mark. Patra attributed the delay in publication of results to teachers’ boycott of evaluation process.
Girls outshone boys and the overall pass percentage stood at 68.79 in Arts stream, 74.91 in Commerce stream and 52.61 in the Vocational stream. The Science stream results were declared May 19.
Of the total 2,30,206 students in the Arts stream, 1,58,378 students have cleared the examination, of whom 63,759 are boys (60.88 per cent) and 94,619 are girls (75.39 per cent). Among the Arts students who have cleared the examination, 19,993 have secured first division, 26,076 students passed in the second division and 1,12,143 in the third division.
Abheepsa Mishra of Ravenshaw Junior College, Cuttack topped in Arts stream with 90.16 per cent marks, while Anish Patnaik of Shiksha College Berhampur and Sai Pravin Patnaik of Khalikote College Berhampur jointly secured top position in Commerce with 90.66 per cent, followed by B Leelarani of Khailkote College 90.33.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik congratulated all the successful students of Plus II exams and extended his wishes for their future. Through a tweet, Patnaik advised the students to pursue for excellence while embracing knowledge at every step of life.
While Puri has topped the district chart in the Arts stream with the highest pass percentage at 79.87, tribal dominated Nabarangpur district has the lowest pass percentage at 47.58. In the Commerce stream, the pass percentage is 74.91 as against last year’s 71.43 per cent.
Of the total 26,984 Commerce students, 20,216 students have cleared the examination of whom 13,089 are boys (73.11 per cent) and 7,127 are girls (78.48 per cent). As many as 4,006 students have secured first division, 3,734 got second division and 12,470 passed in the third division.
Nayagarh has topped the district chart in the Commerce stream with the highest pass percentage at 95.59, while Deogarh has the lowest pass percentage at 45.07.
In the Vocational Education stream, the pass percentage is 52.61 as against 61.22 per cent of the previous year. Of the total 7966 students in the Vocational Education, 4,191 students have cleared the examination, of whom 2,080 are boys (48.71 per cent) and 2,111 are girls (57.11 per cent).
Among the students who have cleared the examination, 299 have secured first division, 1,692 have passed in second division and 2,051 in third division.
Bargarh has topped among the districts in the Vocational Education stream with the highest pass percentage at 81.89, while Nabarangpur district recorded the lowest pass percentage of 3.92.
Last year, the Plus II results were published May 30. This year, although Plus II Science results were announced May 19, the Arts and Commerce results were delayed mainly due to the teachers’ boycott of evaluation process, the minister said, adding the evaluation process was stricter and the examination centres were neutral and malpractice-free this year.