Jalgaon tops Nashik division with pass percentage of 93.3

Nashik: Jalgaon has outperformed other districts in the Nashik division in the Maharashtra board higher secondary exam, recording a pass percentage of 93.3.The Nashik division, comprising Nashik, Dhule, Jalgaon and Nandurbar districts registered an overall pass percentage of 91.7, a dip from last year’s 95.2%.Last year, Dhule had topped the Nashik division with 96.8%.The pass percentage of Nashik district was 90.13, Dhule 92.3 and Nandurbar 93.03.In the HSC exam held this year over February and March, 1.59 lakh students from arts, commerce, science, vocational and ITI streams appeared from the division, of whom 1.45 lakh passed.Nashik division stood sixth with the Konkan division at the top with a pass percentage of 96.01. Pune came second at 93.34%, Kolhapur third with 93.28%, Amravati fourth with 92.75%, Aurangabad fifth with 91.85%, followed by Nashik with 91.66%. Latur came seventh with 90.37%, Nagpur eighth with 90.35% and Mumbai last with 88.13%.Around 9% of candidates scored 75% or more, 35% scored above 60% or more, 39% scored 45% or more, and nearly 9% scored 35% or more marks.As usual, this year, too, girls outshone boys across the division. Overall figures show that 94% girls and 87% boys passed the exam.Meanwhile, the pass percentage of students from the science stream was 96.84, arts 84 and commerce 94.Senior officials of the Nashik division of Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) said that there were quite a few factors which led to a drop in the pass percentage and overall scoring of students as compared to last year.“This was the batch in which many students had no experience of writing tests for the past two years. This very much affected their performance in the exam. Further, this year the students had to study the entire syllabus for writing the paper, which was not the case last year when 25 percent of the syllabus was shortened,” said Nitin Upasani, Nashik divisional chairman of MSBSHSE.Upasani said that sincere efforts were put in by the MSBSHSE to ensure that students do not indulge in malpractices while writing the papers. Members of the flying squads visited the examination centres.