About 60,000 students fail in Class X exams in Kashmir

Srinagar, Apr 2 (UNI) An unprecedented 60,000 students from the Kashmir valley have failed in the Secondary School (Class X) examinations (private), the results of which were declared by the Board of School Education (BOSE) today.

A total of 73,892 students from the Kashmir division had appeared in the Matric examinations conducted by the BOSE in December-January 2006-07. Out of these, only 14,525 students were declared passed.

The total pass percentage stood at 19.66 per cent -- 20.80 per cent for boys and 18.20 per cent for girls.

While only four students could manage to secure distinction, 249 passed the exams in grade one while 1,441 got the second grade.

The highest pass percentage among different subjects was in Urdu in which 38 per cent students were declared successful while the lowest was for Mathematics in which just 14 per cent passed.

As many as 42 students were disqualified for appearing in the examinations for two years after they were caught using unfair means during the exams.

UNI