Board exam results for classes 10 & 11 announced in TN

CHENNAI: Over 8.17 lakh students passed the class 10 board exam in Tamil Nadu, recording a pass percentage of 93.80, while 92.09% students passed class 11 boards for the 2024-25 academic year.

Of the 4.14 lakh girls who appeared for the class 10 exams, 4.17 lakh cleared it, recording a pass percentage of 95.88 and outperforming boys who recorded 91.74 pass percentage. One trans student each from classes 10 and 11 also cleared the boards.

This year, as many as 15,652 students were reported absent for the exams.

In the 2023-24 academic year, TN recorded a pass percentage of 91.55 with 8.18 lakh students clearing the class 10 boards.

The top performing districts this year in class 10 boards are: Sivagangai (98.31%), Virudhunagar (97.45%), Thoothukudi (96.76%), Kanniyakumari (96.66%) and Tiruchy (96.61%).

Among the districts where government schools gave noteworthy results are: Sivagangai, which recorded the highest pass percentage of 97.49, followed by Virudhunagar (95.57%), Kanniyakumari (95.47%), Tiruchy (95.42%) and Thoothukudi (95.40%).

Of the 12,485 schools from where students appeared for the class 10 exams, 4,917 schools secured centum results; of these 1,867 are government schools.

The pass percentage of government schools is 91.26, aided schools (93.63%), private schools (97.99%), co-ed schools (94.06%), girls schools (95.36%) and boys schools (87.84%).

Centums were recorded in Tamil (8), English (346), mathematics (1,996), science (10,838) and social science (10,256); overall 23,468 class 10 students secured centums.

The pass percentage of schools under different departments are: school education (91.35%), Adi Dravidar welfare schools (90.52%), all corporation schools in TN (88.74%), Kallar reclamation schools (93.14%), municipality schools (90.59%), social defence schools (87.69%), social welfare schools (78.43%) and Tribal welfare schools (93.56%).

In the class 11 boards, 8,446 students scored centums: language (295), English (39), physics (390), chemistry (593), biology (91), computer science (3,535), mathematics (1,338), economics (254) and commerce (806).

Government schools secured a pass percentage of 87.34; aided schools (93.09%) and private schools (98.03%). Department wise, school education recorded 87.33 pass percentage, Adi Dravidar welfare schools (84.99%) and Tribal welfare schools (93.92%).

Ariyalur scored the highest pass percentage of 97.76, followed by Erode (96.97%), Virudhunagar (96.23%), Coimbatore (95.77%) and Thoothukudi (95.07%).