Thiruvananthapuram, May 04: Students from the Gulf have outperformed their Kerala counterparts again this year in the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examination, with 97.52 per cent securing eligibility for higher education. The pass percentage last year was 98.7 per cent.
The results were announced by Education Minister M A Baby here on Monday. The overall percentage of students who have secured eligibility for higher education in the examination is 90.72 as against 91.92 last year.
In all, 564 students had appeared for the examination in the Gulf region this year. Of this, 550 secured eligibility for higher education. All students in eight out of 11 schools in the Gulf have secured eligibility for higher education. As many as 17 students received the top honour of A+ Grade in all subjects in the Gulf as against 7,056 in Kerala and Lakshadweep.
In all, 450,000 students had appeared for the examination held in March in 2,709 centres in Kerala, 11 in the Gulf and nine in Lakshadweep. Of this, 410,348 secured eligibility for higher education.
The Model School, Abu Dhabi showed the best performance on this count with 10 students securing A+ Grade, followed by The New Model School, Sharjah with four securing the A+ grade. One student each in The New Indian School, Dubai, Al Majd English School, Dubai, and The Indian School, Fujairah, got A+ Grade in all subjects.
The schools in the Gulf in which all students secured eligibility for higher education are: The Model School, Abu Dhabi (103 students), Gulf Model School, Dubai (67), The Indian School, Fujairah (61), New Indian Model School, Dubai (50), MES Indian School, Doha (43), The New Indian Model School, Sharjah (41), The English School, Umm Al Quwain (37) and Al Majd English School, Dubai (34).
The Education Minister said that the students seeking higher education will not have any difficulty in getting admissions as the government had provided for over 420,000 seats for the Plus 1. The admission process will begin immediately and classes commence on June 30.
He said that the government had no intention of doing away with the board examinations for class X and class XII as proposed by the federal government.
However, he said that the government would introduce changes in the examination system to make the examinations less cumbersome for the students.
–Agencies