Virudhunagar betters its own record

With a success rate of 95.48 per cent, Virudhunagar district continued to reign supreme in the State in 10th examination (SSLC) overall pass percentage for the 22nd straight year.

In fact, the district has bettered its record registered in the previous years. Last year, 93.69 per cent of students had passed out. This year, 20,740 students out of 21,721 who appeared for the examinations have succeeded.

Chief Educational Officer S. Nagaraja Murugan attributed the success to the untiring efforts of teachers. “It is not just that more number of students have passed. But we have achieved more than that. The number of centum in subjects and the number of schools recording 100 per cent success rate too have gone up substantially.”

This year, the district had secured 858 centum, including one in English, as against mere 145 centum got in subjects last year. A total of 619 students had got maximum marks in Mathematics, 230 in Science and eight in Social Science.

Aruppukottai Educational District, comprising backward regions such as Tiruchuzhi and Narikudi, has bettered the Virudhunagar educational district.