Odisha BSE president dismisses rumours about Class 10 result date, says will hold press meet today

Odisha Board of Secondary Education, president, Jahanara Begum on Friday denied rumours that the Class 10 result will be announced on May 5.

Odisha’s Board of Secondary Education (BSE) will not declare the results of Class 10 board examinations on Saturday, its president said on Friday amid speculations about the date of its announcement.

Odisha board Class 10 exams were written by 590,363 students from February 23 to March 8 this year. (HT file)

Jahanara Begum said the board will hold a press meet later in the day and announce the date for the result of the Class 10 exams, which were written by 590,363 students from February 23 to March 8.

Officials earlier said that the Class 12 science stream results will be announced in the third week of next month and those for humanities and commerce in the last week. There were 365,826 students who took the Class 12 exams from March 5 to March 29.

Last year, the pass percentage for Class 10 was 85.28 and in Class 12 74.24% students cleared the exams.