Class X students in Andhra Pradesh fared poorly in the first Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination conducted post COVID-19 pandemic compared to the pre-COVID exams, as only 67.26% of the total 6.15 lakh candidates have passed.
The exams were conducted by the Board of Secondary Education in April 2022 after a gap of two years owing to COVID-19 pandemic in the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 academic years.