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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.
