Girls once again retained their supremacy over boys, with a 71:59 passing percentage ratio even as the state maintained a steady overall passing percentage of 64.25 in the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC, Class XII) exam, held in March 2007.

The overall passing percentage this year is a marginal 0.01 per cent drop over the 2006 results.

The results were declared on Friday by Vijaysheela Sardesai, chairperson of the Pune-headquartered Maharashtra State Board for Secondary and Higher Secondary exampapers.info/category/education" title='Read more about Education'>Education.

The usual excitement and fanfare associated with the HSC results was missing this year as no merit list was declared for first time in the 42 years’ history of the board exams. This new policy of the board is on lines of the pattern adopted by national-level boards like the exampapers.info/category/cbse" title='Read more about CBSE'>CBSE and the ICSE.

Sardesai described the 2007 outcome as “most stable and steady” in view of an almost negligible deviation from last year’s success rate. She attributed the steadfast trend to a drop in the number of students appearing for the HSC exam, compared to last year.

Of the 10.21 lakh students who appeared (both fresh and repeat candidates), 6.56 lakh were declared passed (64.25 per cent). The passing percentage for March 2006 was 64.26 and for March 2005, 61.13.

Compared to the overall result, the passing percentage for fresh candidates was much better at 73.93.

In the freshers category, the ratio between boys and girls was 79:70 in favour of girls, who bettered even the state’s aggregate success rate of 73 per cent for fresh candidates.

Mumbai, with a passing percentage of 76.67, topped the eight divisional boards, while Nagpur ended last with 47.45 success rate. Pune division recorded 71.09 passing percentage to take the second place among the divisional boards, followed by Kolhapur (68.70), Latur (64.46), Aurangabad (64.07), Nashik (60.28) and Amravati (51.08).

While English subject once again proved a major stumbling block in the scoring by students, other languages and social science papers proved high-scoring and recorded more than 90 passing percentage.

Student performance in mathematics, economics and commercial organisation registered a marginal drop, with 83.83, 88.56 and 90 passing percentate, respectively.

The science stream provided the best success rate with 83.37 per cent students clearing the exam, followed by the commerce stream with 81.71 passing percentage. The arts stream had 65.13 per cent students as declared passed, while the lowest success rate was in the minimum competence vocational courses (MCVC) stream, at 63.53 per cent.

Of the 5,139 junior colleges that participated in the exam, 483 institutions registered below 30 per cent results with 19 colleges ending up with zero percent result.

This was attributed to 178 new junior colleges joining the exam this year. “The number of colleges with 100 per cent result too has gone up from 35 last year to 43 this year,” she observed.

Referring to incidents of exam malpractices, she said there was a slight drop in the number of such incidents this year. In all, 2,670 cases were reported, which included 2,376 instance of copying and 34 of impersonation.

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