Even as the district recorded a decline in subject-wise centum scorers, it saw an increase in the number of failures in Plus Two public examination. An analysis of the results revealed that there were 1,628 centum scorers this year compared to 1,693 centum last year, a decline of 3.83 percentage.
The percentage of students who failed to clear the examinations went up by 13.78 this year, even though the total percentage of students appearing went up only by 0.91. While 4,199 failed last year, the number increased to 4,778 this year. The students appearing went up to 36,908 this year from last year's 36,573.
Maths centum doubles
In a positive development, the number of centum in mathematics is more than doubled, going up to 619 from 295 last year. It also increased substantially in accountancy, where 603 students hit the centum mark this year, compared to 372 last year.
However, in a worrying development, the centum declined by more than 98 per cent in physics, down to just three compared to 166 last year. Centum scorers nearly halved in chemistry, down to 67 compared to 116 last year.
Economics and commerce also saw declines, down to 26 and 112 this year, compared to 140 and 381 centum respectively last year.
Commerce and mathematics hogged the limelight in the negative list also along with economics. With 898 students, commerce achieved the dubious distinction of having the highest number of failures followed by mathematics with 560. Economics saw 712 failing this year.
The number of failures declined in English, down to 334 from last year’s 465, even while increase in Tamil, up to 328 this year compared to 255 the year before.
The pass percentage declined in vocational subjects such as general machinist, equipment theory and office secretaryship went down to 94.36 per cent compared to 95.16 last year.
