SHILLONG/TURA: St. Anthony’s Higher Secondary School once again stole the show on Thursday when the results for the Higher Secondary School Leaving Certificate (HSSLC) science, commerce and vocational streams were declared by the meghalaya Board of School Education (MBoSE).
The over 100-year-old school took all but one top 10 rank in science section. Topper Rishav Das was jubilant and met the principal after the results were declared.
A student of Don Bosco College, Tura, Nishtha Hajong, ranked sixth in science section.
However, the pass percentage in the science stream declined from 76.76 in 2017 to 74.58. This is in contrast with commerce section that saw an improved pass percentage of 79.84 as against 71.87 in 2017.
Chongdeinem Guite of St. Edmund’s Higher Secondary School topped the HSSLC Commerce stream.
St Anthony’s again showed its mettle by bagging second, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth and 10th ranks in commerce.
In the regular category for science, boys outshone girls with a pass percentage of 78.27 and 75.43, respectively. In the non-regular category, girls took the lead with a pass percentage of 58.27. For boys, it stood at 41.94 per cent.
In commerce, pass percentage of girls in both regular and non-regular categories (88.85 and 65.08, respectively) were more than the boys (78.27 and 56.61, respectively).
Garo Hills failed to make a mark again with some of the districts having abysmally low pass percentage. South Garo Hills has the lowest with 16.67 per cent.
In South Garo Hills and South West Garo Hills, no students appeared for the commerce stream examination as there are no institutes that offer the subject.
The HSSLC science results in the last five years are 75.53 per cent in 2014 with a negligible improvement in 2015 (75.68).
Again, this pass percentage declined to 74.46 per cent in 2016.
Over the last five years, the pass percentage in commerce showed an improvement with an increase to 79.84 as against last year’s 71.87 per cent.
In 2016, the pass percentage was 70.60, a decline from 2015 which was 72.32. The pass percentage in 2014 was 67.91.