‘Delhi government’s Class 12 results best in 21 years’: Education Minister Manish Sisodia

New Delhi: A day after the CBSE announced the results of Class 12 in which 94.24 percent students of Delhi’s government schools passed the exams, Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday said the results were the best in the past 21 years — and were up by 3.6 percentage points over last year. Addressing the media here, he said 203 Delhi government schools had 100 per cent pass percentage. “The results were best in the past 21 years,” he said.

Sharing the data, Sisodia said the results showed an increase of 3.6 percentage points over last year — which was 90.64 per cent. The Class 12 results have shown consistent improvement since the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) came to power in 2015. In 2016, the pass percentage was 85.9 per cent, while in 2017 it was 88.2 per cent. The percentage never crossed the 90 per cent mark till the last year. (IANS)

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