Over 40,000 students from Dakshina Kannada, Udupi districts to write SSLC-1 examination from March 18 to April 2
The Hindu
Over 40,000 students from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi will take the SSLC-1 exam from March 18 to April 2.
A total of 43,344 Class 10 regular and private students from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts are set to write the SSLC-1 examination from March 18 to April 2.
The two districts have achieved pass percentages of over 90 were consistently ranked in the top two positions in the State over the last two years.
A total of 29,193 students, including 27,510 regular fresh students, will write the examination at 92 examination centres in Dakshina Kannada. The 18 centres of the Bantwal education block account for the highest number of students, 5,523, followed by 5,017 from Mangaluru North, 4,719 from Mangaluru South, 4,652 from Puttur, 3,869 from Belthangady, 1,930 from Moodbidri, and 1,800 from the Sullia education block. CCTVs have been installed in all the examination halls to enable web-casting.
In the SSLC-1 examination of 2024-25, Dakshina Kannada ranked first in the State with a pass percentage of 91.12. Of the 27,865 students who wrote the examination, 1,582 students failed. The district stood second in the State in 2023-24 with a pass percentage of 92.12. It was ranked 17th and 21st in the 2022-23 and 2021-22 academic years with pass percentages of 89.52 and 88.63, respectively.
In all, 13,516 fresh candidates, including 295 regular repeaters, 293 private students, and 47 private repeaters, will appear for the examination in the Udupi district. Of this, 7,353 are boys, and 6,798 are girls. There are 51 examination centres, including 15 in the Udupi block, 11 in Brahmavar, nine in Karkala, and eight centres each in Byndoor and Kundapur education blocks. CCTVs have been installed in all 686 halls of the 51 examination centres, and as many as 1,350 invigilators have been posted.
In the SSLC-1 examination for the 2024-25 academic year, Udupi district recorded a pass percentage of 89.96 and stood second in the State. In all, 1,638 students, of the 13,889 students who appeared for the examination, had failed. In 2023-24, it stood first with a pass percentage of 97. In 2022-23, the Udupi district recorded a pass percentage of 89.33.
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