Besides the curse of COVID-19 pandemic that kept students out of classrooms for two subsequent years (2019-2020 and 2020-21), the fact that the government has taken a tough stand against people resorting to or encouraging malpractices in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) public examinations this year has greatly contributed to the low pass percentage obtained by students.
“The super successful SSC examinations’ bubble has finally burst and there are no two opinions about it. The SSC results has brought us face-to-face with the reality. This is the actual existing education scenario in the State. It has been for last several years, but people were made to believe that schools in the State excelled in the public examinations,” said an official of the Education Department and added, “We need to get real and gear up to improve the standards and prepare our students for ‘real’ examinations.”
