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Poor show by Haryana Class X board students
* Only 50.79% students emerge successful
* Girls outshine boys again
Sushil Manav/TNS

Bhiwani, June 5
Almost half of the students who took the Class X examination of the Board of School Education, Haryana, (HBSE) have failed. The result was announced today. It would be available on the website of the board from 9 am tomorrow.

In all, 50.79 per cent candidates have cleared the examination conducted by the board in March this year. Girls outshone boys in this examination, too.

State Education Department officials have been extending various excuses for the poor show put up by Class 10 students. The major reason behind such a bad show was that most of the students who were well off in studies and could afford to pay higher fees preferred to join private schools affiliated with the CBSE, they said.

National vice-president of the All-India Democratic Women Association (AIDWA) Jagmati Sangwan, however, blamed it on lack of human resources and infrastructure in the state government school. She said a large number of posts of teacher had been vacant in government schools across the state, but the government was doing nothing to fill them. Teachers working in government schools also needed to increase their commitment towards their work, she added.

HBSE chairman Dr KC Bhardwaj, however, claimed that the poor result was largely due to the copy-free examination ensured by the board this time. Earlier, the students had to get pass marks in the external exam and the internal assessment in aggregate, but from this year, it had been made compulsory for them to get pass marks in both, he added.

Bhardwaj said 3,45,239 candidates had appeared in the Class X examination this year and 1,75,353 of them had been declared successful. He said 63,892 students had got reappear this year.

Report card

• Of the total 3,45,239 candidates who took the exam, 1,75,353 were declared successful
• Of 1,89,019 boys, 91,528 have passed; while 83,825 girls were successful out of 1,56,220
• In case of government schools, 72,513 students were declared successful out of total 1,77,164 candidates (40.93%)
• In case of private schools, 1,02,840 students were declared successful out of total 1,68,075 candidates (61.19%)