Andhra Pradesh

Good show by Guntur girls

– Photo: T. Vijaya Kumar

All smiles: Schoolgirls checking their marklists outside an internet centre in Guntur on Thursday.

GUNTUR: The pass percentage in Secondary School Certificate examination in 2008 increased by seven per cent to 80.85 per cent and girls surpassed the boys in the pass percentage, the District Education Officer Y. Chandramohan has said.

The highest mark of 581 scored by any student in the district was Sk. Unadvali and there were 6,000 students, who had scored more than 500 marks. The pass percentage of candidates in the district was only 75 per cent in 2002-03 ranking 14th among all districts, but it improved to 7th now against State average of 75.47 per cent.

Out of 38,904 students who appeared the Xth Standard public examination, 31,455 passed. While 16,512 boys passed out (80.33 per cent); 14,943 girls were successful (out of 18,349) registering 81.44 pass percentage. There were long queues at the internet centres with students eager to know their marks.

Sensing his son’s interest in academics, K. Venkateswara Rao was planning to admit him into a polytechnic college, but K.V.S. Satyanarayana, a class 10 student of Municipal Corporation High School, Sanjeeviah Nagar had other ideas. Dreaming big, he forced his father, a bar tender, to stretch the purse and enroll him at a private coaching institute offering CA preparatory classes.

But the father was not disappointed as his eldest of two siblings scored 571 marks out of 600 in the class 10 examinations, topping the results of the Municipal Schools in the city. An elated Mr. Rao was congratulated by Mayor Rayapati Mohan Sai Krishna and Municipal Commissioner Siddhartha Jain at their offices in the evening.

“My son motivated himself and wanted to do C.A. We as parents never told him to do this and that. He worked hard and his teachers too inspired him,” Mr. Rao said.

K. Nagasudha, a student of Municipal High School at Ravindra Nagar, who scored 551 marks, got the second highest marks, while T. Naga Sai, a student of Municipal School at A.T. Agraharam got 549 marks.

The GMC will give scholarships to the students, who by virtue of scoring more than 550 marks, have already been entitled to complete fee waiver in any of the corporate junior college during their two years of intermediate study. The students along with their parents and teachers would be felicitated at a function which would be held later.

Out of 818 students who had appeared for the Class 10 examinations, 591 passed out with a pass percentage of 72 per cent, one per cent less than the pass per cent recorded in 2007. Of the 10 schools, S.K.B.P.M.C.H School at Venugopal Nagar registered the highest percentage of 93, followed by S.Ch.M.P.M.C High School, Stambhalagaravu at 91 per cent. As many as 48 students scored more than 500 marks.

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