Board Results Of CBSE Schools In India Rose Sharply Post Covid-19, A Comparative Study

CBSE is the most popular national education board for public and private schools in India. Over 24,000 schools across the country and around 240 schools in 26 countries across the globe are affiliated to CBSE.

The CBSE affiliates approximately 1,138 Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs), 595 JNVs, 3011 government schools and 16,741 independent schools and 14 central Tibetan schools.

Careers360 scrutinised the CBSE schools data which was drawn from the website of the Army Welfare Education Society and explored the CBSE school results for Class 10 and 12.

Army Public schools(APS) and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya(JNV) always show better results compared with the other Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) schools. During the Covid-19 period, virtual classes and open book exams were conducted and as expected the results of the other CBSE schools, government or private, increased significantly.

CBSE Class 12 Result : Comparison

The APSs, KVs and JNVs have had very good results each year. In 2018-19, government schools, private schools and other CBSE schools had a very low percentage of students who cleared Class 12 boards and the difference was more than 10 percentage points compared to the APSs, KVs and JNVs.

After Covid-19 however, the result of these schools sharply increased. It may be because of the exams which were conducted in virtual mode or the marking was lenient. By 2020-21, all schools showed a result with more than 99 per cent of their students successfully clearing Class 12 boards.

CBSE: Class 12 Result

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CBSE Class 10 Result: Comparison

The Government schools had very shocking results for Class 10 students in 2020-21, the percentage of students who passed increased by about 25 percentage points in two years. Results at other CBSE schools also increased by almost eight percentage points. While APSs, KVs and JNVs had very minor changes in the result primarily because they always had better results.

CBSE: Class 10 Result

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Class 12: Result Variance

APSs, KVs and JNVs had very minor changes in their result and the result variance is also very low, around one to three and half per cent over the last three years.

CBSE Board Increase In Percentage Of Passing Students in Class 12 (In %)

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Class 10: Result Variance

Passing percentage at Government schools soared among students of Class 10 compared to other schools, in the last three years. This increase is highest among class 10 and 12 boards too. Government schools had 72 per cent of students passing the class 10 boards in 2018-19 while in 2019-20 around 81 per cent of students passed and in 2020-21, 96 per cent of students passed.

CBSE Board Increase In Percentage Of Passing Students in Class 10 (In %)

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In just two years, the sudden increase in the percentage of students passing both boards, especially during the pandemic is quite surprising. All these changes were done while students faced many difficulties such as the change of offline classes to online, health issues, availability of books, network issues to connect to the digital world and many more.