HSLC, HSSLC 2016 results: Girls outshine boys

•    In HSLC top-20 list, 28 are girls and 17 boys

•    Girl dominate entire HSSLC Arts stream top-10 list

•    Kohima tops HSLC district wise performance

•    30 government schools, 1 private school with zero pass result

Morung Express News
Dimapur | May 3  

Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) on Tuesday declared the results of the 2016 High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) and Higher Secondary School Leaving Certificate (HSSLC) Examinations.  

This year’s HSLC result saw slight improvement in the overall pass percentage when compared to 2015. From 22970 enrolled candidates, 15027 qualified the 2016 HSLC Examination, out of which 7650 are girls and 7377 boys.  

This put the pass percentage at 65.42, which is 2.37% higher than last year’s 63.05% and 0.23% higher than the 2014 HSLC pass percentage, which stood at 65.19.  

Girls as usual edged over the boys in overall performance and in the merit list. In the top-20 list, out of 45 candidates, 17 are boys and 28 are girls. Government schools continue to figure high in the zero/ nil pass percentage list. From 31 schools, which showed zero/nil result this year, 30 are government schools and one private school.  

However, on a positive note, the number of schools securing 100% qualified/pass percentage rose to 67, up by 18 from 2015. Out of 67 schools, 62 are private schools and five are government schools. The Board said the pass percentage of the schools is calculated from the number of students enrolled as on April 1 and not on the number of students appearing for examination.  

In terms of district wise performance of government schools, Kohima district topped the table with a percentage of 56.62% followed by Mokokchung district at 54.42%. Kiphire district is at the bottom with 4.18% followed by Longleng at 7.95%. In respect to private schools, Kohima district is at the top with a percentage of 85.34% followed by Phek district at 84.34%.  

914 candidates secured 80% and above out of 15027 qualified candidates, which comes to 6.1%-an increase from 731 in 2015. Out of these, 908 candidates are from private schools and six candidates are from government schools.

2016 HSSLC Examination overview

In the 2016 HSSLC Examination results, girls too surpassed boys with pass percentage standing at 77.42 and the boys at 72.81. Breaking it up, in Arts stream, girls stood at 75.91% and boys at 67.81%. In the Commerce stream, pass percentage of girls were at 84.35 and boys at 67.82% whereas in the Science stream, girls stood at 86.66% and boys at 79.00%.  

Girls further dominated the top-10 list in all the three streams - Arts, Commerce and Science. In the Arts section, girls topped the entire list from 1-10 with 12 toppers. In the Commerce stream, girls took seven slots while boys retained five. Similarly, in the Science stream, there were 9 girl toppers and 3 boy toppers in the list.  

Five institutions under Arts stream, two institutions under Science stream and one institution under Commerce stream secured 100% pass result. Two institutions – 1 government and 1 private institution got zero/nil result.  

In Arts stream, 10386 candidates enrolled for the examination out of which 7488 candidates passed with overall pass percentage was 72.10. In Commerce stream, 1397 students appeared for the examination and 1031 students qualified with overall pass percentage of 73.80. In Science stream, 2725 students sat for the examination and 2247 students passed out putting the overall pass percentage at 82.46.  

The Board also introduced a new system in working out the rank and division of a successful candidate. The rank and division is decided on basis of best of 5 (five) subjects on condition that the student have also passed the compulsory subjects.  

While looking back at the results of the last 5 (five) years, the NBSE in their overview of the results of HSLC & HSSLC Examinations 2016 has claimed that the performance of students has not gone down. Its performance is consistent, it said.  

37478 candidates appeared the HSLC and HSSLC Examinations, which commenced from February 9, 2016 till February 27, 2016.