NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government on Wednesday said the pass percentage of Class 11 students in Delhi government schools has touched 80 per cent, the highest in the last eight years. In a statement, the government, sharing highlights of the annual exam results of all classes (other than class 10 and 12) in Delhi government schools, said: "In Class 11, there has been a significant improvement over last year's performance".
The statistics take into account figures from 2010 onwards. While 71 per cent students of Class 11 passed their exam in 2017-18, it has improved to 80 per cent in 2018-19. From 2015-16 onwards, the pass percentage in this class has been around 72% as opposed to 63% in 2014-15. In 2018-19, it touched 80 per cent for the first time, the statistics revealed. Similarly, in class nine, the pass percentage has remained almost the same as the previous year. While 57.4 per cent students passed in 2017-18, the pass percentage for 2018-19 is 57 per cent.
"There has been a slow but consistent improvement in the pass percentage over the last four years in this class due to programmes and initiatives like Chunauti and Mission Buniyaad which is strengthening the foundational learning skills of students by the time they reach Class 9," a Delhi government official said. In 2015-16, the pass percentage in this class was 50.8 per cent which improved to 52.3 per cent the next year followed by 57.4 per cent in 2017-18.
"It is important to note that the improvement recorded last year and maintained this year has been despite the change in the weightage for the external and internal component. While before 2017-18, the weightage for external was of 60 per cent, it was increased to 80 per cent as per CBSE norms," the official added. He also said that the Delhi government is committed to deeply focus on learning outcomes in the new academic session as well and strengthen its teacher training program so that innovative pedagogies are applied by them to speed up the learning of last 30-40 per cent children in the classroom who were neglected in the past.
"Apart from national and international level training, in the budget for 2019-20, Teachers Innovation Fund of Rs. 1 to 1.5 lacs per school has been announced to encourage teachers to take up projects for learning improvement among children in their respective context. For promoting excellence among students, Pratibha fellowships and the Chief Minister's Merit scholarship have also been introduced," the official said.