SSLC RESULTS 2010 ANNOUNCED

State Education Minister M A Baby on Monday announced the results of the Secondary School Leaving Examination at the scheduled hour of 11.30 am. The pass percentage for this year is 90.72 per cent which is lower than the pass percentages for the last two years. Kannur recorded the highest pass percentage of 96.88 while Palakkad recorded the lowest 83.33 percentage.

Overall 4.5 lakh students appeared for the SSLC Examination of whom 4,08226 students came out victorious becoming eligible for higher studies.

The SAY Examination for those who have failed SSLC will be held on May 17 and the results of the same will be announced by May end for enabling the winners of the exam to apply for higher studies this academic year itself.

Altogether 5182 students have secured A Plus Grade while 17515 have secured A Grade in this year's SSLC Exam. A total of 256981 students have secured C Grade while 114868 students have bagged C Plus Grade. Altogether 568 schools secured 100 per cent success while 54 schools bagged 90 per cent success. A total of 19 schools have achieved 100 percent success in the special school scheme in which 107 schools were included.

It is for the first time in the history of the SSLC Examination that the results are declared so early. The Minister credited this achievement to the combined efforts of the teaching community who valuated the papers and tabulated marks and the officials in the Education Department. He also commended the efforts to keep the security and secrecy of the examination.

The Minister in his address said that the pass percentage was achieved without giving moderation. This year the pass percentage is less than 1.2 percentage of last year. However the pass percentage of SC/STs and weaker sections and the otherly abled went up this year, he said. In the year 2005 the pass percentage of SC/ST was 37 whereas this year it has gone up to 80 per cent. For OECs this has gone up from 56 per cent in 2005 to 90 per cent in 2010. The Minister said the Government had set aside 10 crore rupees for lifting up the otherly abled students.The government helped them with allowing scribes in the exam

The Minister also said that the Plus One Classes will start by June 30 itself. The Plus One applications should be admitted by May 20 itself.

In the light of the reforms initiated at the national level by the Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal to dispense with the 10th and 12th CBSE exams, Baby said the SSLC Exam will be retained in the state with the necessary scientific reforms without burdening students. "We were of the view that the national-level reforms should have been initiated after adequate discussions with states. We are not for increasing the anxiety of students by pressurising them with exams. The SSLC Exams will be accordingly reformed for the benefit of students," he said.

The Minister congratulated all the winners of this year's exam and asked the losers not to get disheartened and strive more hard to achieve success.