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The alteration successful program for Class X successful the 2025-26 world twelvemonth could person led to the driblet successful fig of students securing A+ people successful each subjects by fractional this year, General Education Principal Secretary Sharmila Mary Joseph said connected Friday.
The fig of students who secured A+ successful each subjects this twelvemonth is 30,514. It is less than fractional the fig of students who got afloat A+ past twelvemonth – 61,449.
Ms. Joseph, who was addressing mediapersons aft declaring the SSLC results said the alteration successful question insubstantial signifier could person contributed successful a tiny measurement to this fall. “The Directorate of General Education and the Pareeksha Bhavan would analyse the reasons. Teachers would besides beryllium urged to follow an exam-oriented pedagogical approach,” she said.
Director of General Education N.S.K. Umesh said the fig of students securing afloat A+ present was astir what was seen successful the play from 2015- 2020. It had gone up sharply lone successful the play from 2021-24.
The diminution successful fig of afloat A+ students could beryllium attributed to caller curriculum, textbooks, and question insubstantial pattern. However, an investigation would beryllium done, helium added.
According to effect information provided by the General Education department, successful 2015 the fig of students with afloat A+ was 15,430. It went up to 22,879 successful 2016, 20,967 successful 2017, 34,313 successful 2018, 37,334 successful 2019, and 41,906 successful 2020.
In 2021, arsenic galore arsenic 1,25,509 students got afloat A+. In 2022, this dropped to 44,363, roseate again the adjacent twelvemonth to 68,604, and past again successful 71,831 successful 2024.
When the fig of afloat A+ students dropped successful 2022 aft touching 1.25 lakh successful 2021, erstwhile Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty had said it was not deliberate and was accordant with the numbers successful the erstwhile years but successful 2021 erstwhile absorption country and treble the fig of questions had been provided to students for the exams held against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conceptual understanding
The changes successful question insubstantial signifier were introduced by the Left Democratic Front authorities successful the 2025-26 league successful a bid to steer children distant from rote learning and nonstop answers to application-oriented questions that underline conceptual knowing and creativity, arsenic has been done by boards specified arsenic the CBSE.
State Council of Educational Research and Training officials had earlier indicated that the fig of students securing afloat A+ would travel down this year.
