Government schools improve, still to catch up with private ones

Unlike the Class 12 results, where government school results were better than private schools, this time, the results were not with private schools recording 93.18% results.

Delhi government-run schools improved their performance by taking the pass percentage in the Class 10 Central Board of Secondary Education exams from 69.33% last year to 71.97% this year.

Delhi government-run schools improved their performance by taking the pass percentage in the Class 10 Central Board of Secondary Education exams from 69.33% last year to 71.97% this year.(Burhaan Kinu/HT PHOTO)

Unlike the Class 12 results, where government school results were better than private schools, this time, the results were not with private schools recording 93.18% results.

Anita Singh, head of school at Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya in Mayur Vihar said, “Efforts are being made to ensure that the quality of results gets better every year. Since this is the second year of compulsory board examinations, it will take some time for students to pick up.”

AK Jha, principal of Sarvodya Vidyalaya in Rohini said, “We get students from civic body-run schools in Class 6. Many do not even know basic reading and writing. And then there is the no-detention policy wherein students cannot be failed till class 8. Families of most students do not care about their results till then."

Of the 166,167 government school students that gave the Class 10 exams, 118, 936 passed. The number of students who appeared in the exams was also higher this year.

According to official data, the number of schools securing 100% pass percentage has risen to 60 this year from last year’s 48.

Dhanjot Singh of Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya (RPVV) in Civil Lines topped in the Delhi government school category, scoring 98.6%. The second position was shared between Shalu of government senior secondary school in Kondli and Anvita Shukla of Shaheed Shaheed Amir Chand Sarvodaya Vidyalaya in Civil Line, both scored 97.8%. Shreya Maurya of Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya in Hari Nagar came third with 97.6%.

The pass percentage of girls in Delhi government school was 74.29%, while that of boys’ was 68.51%.

The government said that the number of students who are placed in compartment have dropped too. “Those who have failed in up to two subjects are 44,516 which is 26.79% of the total who appeared. The percentage of students who have failed is 1.63%,” the government said in a statement.

Officials at the Directorate of Education (DoE) said government schools have taken all possible measures to improve the results.