Around 65 percent of students failed the Bihar State boards after stricter measures were taken to prevent cheating.
From a total of 12,61,000 students who appeared for class XII, roughly 35 percent passed the exams. In 2016, the pass percentage was around 67 percent.
Jharkhand too had a poor outcome in their board exams. Only 57.91% students have cleared the class X exams. The pass percentage for class XII students in the science stream was 52.36 percent.
Jharkhand has been witnessing poor results since 2003, but this year’s figures were an all time low.
The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) declared its results for the science, arts, and commerce streams of class XII, on Tuesday.
The pass percentage in science was 30.76%, while only 37.13% passed in arts. The only silver lining was that 73.76 percent students appearing in Commerce stream passed the exams.
Khushboo Kumari of Simultula school is the science topper with an 86.2 percent. Ganesh Kumar from Utkramit Madhya Vidyalaya topped arts with 82.6 percent, while Priyanshu Jaiswal who scored 81.6% topped from commerce.
After the large scale cheating scam that was exposed after Bihar ‘topper’ Ruby Rai’s interview, during which she was unable to answer simple questions from the syllabus, the former chairman and secretary of BSEB were arrested on allegations in connection to the scam.
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