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The Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB), which announced its Class 12 results on Monday, recorded a pass percentage of over 83 for Science stream, and 93 for the General stream. This year logged a marginal increase in the pass percentage, when compared with the previous year. This is the second year after 2024 when both General and Science streams results were declared on the same day.
The number of schools with pass percentage of 100 for both Science and General streams increased this year. Also schools with pass percentage of below 10 rose in number. “The number of schools with pass percentage of less than 10 have increased slightly, but at the same time, schools with pass percentage of 100 increased by nearly 400 for General stream and 67 for Science stream. The overall results are also better than last year… which is an achievement,” Education Minister Kuber Dindor told The Indian Express.
From 27 last year, the number of schools with pass percentage of below 10 increased to 34 for the Science stream. On the other hand, number of schools where 100 per cent students from Science stream passed the exams increased from 127 in 2024 to 194 this year. Similarly, in General stream, the number of schools where less than 10 per cent students have passed increased from 19 last year to 21 in 2025, while the number of schools with a pass percentage of 100 rose from 1609 in 2024 to 2005 this year.
However, in Science stream candidates with A1 grade — the highest of grades — saw a year-on-year decline from 1,034 to 831, while for A2 grade it dropped from 8,983 to 8083 candidates. The pass percentage of A group (non-medical) stood at 91.90, B (medical) group at 78.74 and AB group at 73.68.
Despite measures taken to improve students’ performance in Science subjects, when compared to last ten years, while a rise of nearly 30 per cent has been recorded in the pass percentage for General stream — from 63.35 in 2015 to 93.07 in 2025; for Science stream, the rate declined from 86.10 to 83.51, recording the lowest in March 2023 when 65.58 per cent students passed the Class 12 exams in the state. In 2023, the state government had cited Covid pandemic as the reason behind poor results.
In Science stream, out of 1,00,575 regular students, 83,987 qualified for certificate and in General, 3,37,387 out of 3,62,506 qualified for the pass certificate this year. The pass percentage of boys in Science stream is 83.79 and girls is 83.20. In General stream, the percentage of boys and girls stood at 90.78 and 95.23, respectively.
Two rural districts of Morbi and Banaskantha have fared best in both streams. While the tribal district of Dahod has scored the lowest in Science stream, Vadodara logged the lowest success in the state in the General stream.
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In General stream, the maximum number of candidates failed in one subject (15,012), followed by 6,047 in two subjects. In Science stream, the maximum number of students failed in two subjects (7,626), followed by 5,594 in three subjects .
Science stream also recorded a lower number of students scoring above 99 percentile as 365 students and 647 students were awarded above 99 percentile in A and B group, respectively. Against this, 3,924 candidates from General stream secured above 99 percentile.
In Gujarat Common Entrance Test (GUJCET) results declared on Monday, 489 and 790 candidates were placed above the 99 percentile category in A and B groups, respectively.
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