With 82.77 pass percentage in Class 12, Odisha’s CHSE still lags behind CBSE, ISC

The Odisha Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE), on Thursday, announced the results for the Class 12 examinations for 2025, marking a critical checkpoint in the state's academic progress.

The overall pass rate stood at 82.77%, a figure that paints a marginal dip from last year’s 83.38%.

Unfortunately, this downturn continues a long-term lag behind India’s leading national boards. For comparison, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) posted a pass rate of 88.39%, while the Indian School Certificate (ISC) achieved a near-perfect 99.02% for the academic year 2024-25, results of which were declared this month.

Stream-Wise Performance

A total of 3,82,739 students sat for the CHSE examinations across the Arts, Science, and Commerce streams, with 3,16,787 successfully passing. Notably, girls continued to outperform boys: 87.24% of female students passed versus 77.88% of their male counterparts.

In Science, the pass rate was 87.49%, with Nayagarh district topping at 97.58% and Boudh recording the lowest at 71.85%. Arts had an 80.51% pass rate, and Commerce followed with 83.02%.

Nayagarh also led the Commerce results at 93.71%. Meanwhile, 1.01 lakh students achieved first division scores, with 1,906 students in Science scoring above 90%, a figure much lower than that reported by CBSE.

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A Call for a Better Future

CHSE, in 2025, still pales against the consistent and structured outcomes from national boards, signalling that Odisha’s board needs a strategic overhaul, with measures like enhanced teacher training, better student support systems, and robust district-level accountability.

Only with such measures can it hope to close the gap and offer its students parity in academic opportunities.