Bihar Board result 2018 likely in second week of May: Official

The BSEB is likely to declare the results of the matriculation or Class 10 and intermediate or Class 12 board examinations by the second week of May, officials said on Wednesday.

The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) is likely to declare the results of the matriculation or Class 10 and intermediate or Class 12 board examinations by the second week of May, officials said on Wednesday.

The Bihar board is likely to declare the results of the matriculation or Class 10 and intermediate or Class 12 board examinations by the second week of May, officials said. (HT file)

“The results of intermediate examinations will be declared in the second week of May and after three to four days, the result of matriculation examination will be declared,” a board official, who did not want to be named, said.

Officials had said last month that the results will be announced by the first week of May.

“Some of the barcodes on the answer sheets were found damaged due to which it could not be scanned. The process of its rectification is going on. Moreover, some OMR files were also damaged that has to be corrected,” the official said.

“Some students had made errors in filling the subject codes on their respective answer sheets. These errors are to be solved first before declaring the results. Otherwise, it would have been declared on time,” the official added.

Last year, the matriculation result was declared on June 22 and that for the intermediate were announced on May 30.

This year, 17,70,042 students filled the forms for matric exam and 12,80,000 students for the intermediate exams.

The pass percentage of matric exam in 2017 was 50.12 as 861,000 candidates out of 17,23,911 had failed. In the intermediate exam, 30.11% science students passed, 32.13% humanities and 73.76% commerce cleared the exam.