Guwahati
The Assam Secondary Education Department has served a show cause notice to 102 state-run schools for poor results of their students in the recently declared High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) or Class 10 examination.
The overall pass percentage of this year’s HSLC examination was 56.49 per cent, which is much lower than the 2021 pass percentage of 93.10 per cent when the HSLC examination was not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the results were declared through an evaluation formula based on the internal assessment of the students.
According to the Assam Secondary Education Department, 25 state-run schools in the state have shown 0 per cent results in this year’s HSLC/AMH examination while 70 schools’ pass percentage results were below 10 per cent and 7 schools’ pass percentage results were 10 per cent.
Mamata Hojai, Director of Secondary Education said that a total of 102 state-run schools’ pass percentage results were 10 per cent and below 10 per cent.
