With 99.57%, commerce students produced the best results, though science and arts students did not lag far behind. While in science, the pass percentage was 99.06, the corresponding figure for arts was 98.93%.
The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC) statistics revealed that the Class XII results this year have been the best ever. Compared to the previous year’s results, the highest 20% increase was registered in arts. The pass percentage last year in arts was 78.28. In science and commerce, the rise in pass percentage was around 11 in each stream.
In the vocational stream, the pass percentage was 97.41 this year, an improvement of around 6% from last year’s 91.55. A total of 1,081 students were registered from the vocational stream and 618 got first division, followed by 381 in the second division and 54 in the third division.
Since 2018, the Class XII results in Assam have improved but the graph has soared like never before this year. But there was no provision for the announcement of rank holders as decided by the education department and AHSEC. The results have been announced as per the performance data received from the schools and records of Class X board examination.
In the district-wise performance tally, Majuli produced the best results in arts with 99.91%. With cent per cent results, hill district Dima Hasao excelled in science. In commerce, 13 out of 33 districts produced striking results with a cent per cent success rate.
In arts, the highest 1.91 lakh students were registered to appear and 58,244 secured first division, followed by 89,520 in second division. A total of 42,029 students passed with the third division in arts.
In science, out of the 38,430 registered candidates, 32,917 secured first division, 4,609 got second division and 542 managed to pass with third division.
Altogether 18,443 students were registered from commerce. Of them, 11,189 scored first division marks, while 5,497 got second division. From the commerce division, 1,678 students were placed in the third division.
Among regular candidates, the performance of boys and girls has been on a par in all three streams. In arts, the pass percentage of boys and girls (regular candidates) was 99.10% and 99.08% respectively. On the other hand in commerce, 99.86% girls passed compared to 99.80% boys. The corresponding figure for boys and girls in science was 99.84% and 99.88% respectively. In the vocational stream, the pass percentage of girls was 97.58, while that of the boys was 97.35.
Amid concerns of scarcity of seats due to a higher number of passouts this year, state education minister Ranoj Pegu said in the government and provincialized colleges of Assam, there are about 1.7 lakh seats. “There are many private and venture colleges where students are enrolled in various professional courses. A section of students get admission in medical, engineering and polytechnic courses. We are discussing where to increase seats,” said Pegu, assuring that all successful students would be accommodated for higher studies. He, however, admitted that the government is yet to ascertain the total number of seats in private and venture colleges.
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