Chandigarh, May 14 -- The overall pass percentage of the city's government senior secondary schools stood at 87.25%, down from 88.79% last year, marking a decline of 1.54 percentage points.

The overall CBSE pass percentage at the national level stood at 85.2%, a decline of 3 percentage points from last year's 88.39%. The pass percentage of the city's government schools was 2 percentage points higher than the national average.

According to the UT administration, the decline in the overall pass percentage at both the national and UT level may be attributed to stricter and competency-based evaluation practices, greater emphasis on conceptual understanding under the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020, and the introduction of digital eval...