‘Anti-Copying Measures’: All Students Fail In 165 UP Board Schools

Mangalore Today News Network

Uttar Pradesh, Apr 29, 2019: As many as 165 schools registered zero results in the Uttar Pradesh Board high school and intermediate examinations the scores for which were released on Saturday, 27 April, Hindustan Times reported.

 

According to the report, schools in which not a single student could clear the examinations include 50 government-run schools, five government-aided schools, 84 private schools in high school category and 15 government-run, 58 government-aided and 176 private schools in the intermediate category.

More than 300 schools, the report said, registered below 20 percent results. Out of these,139 institutions figured in the high school examinations list while 249 figured in the intermediate exams list.

“While it is no feat to boast of, the results is (are) an indicator of the kind of strict anti-copying measures put in place during the Board exams,” UP Board director Vinay Kumar Pandey told HT.

Students from at least 13 schools in Kaushambi could not clear the high school examination while seven schools each from Aligarh and Mainpuri have recorded zero results in the intermediate examination, the report said.

This year, the overall pass percentage stood at 80.07 percent for Class 10 and at 70.06 percent for Class 12.

(With inputs from Hindustan Times)