The Ministry of Education’s Department of School Education and Literacy shared that more than 29 lakh students did not pass their Class 10 board exams last year. Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, while presenting the information in the Lok Sabha, mentioned that out of 18,99,08,809 students who took the exam, 160,346,671 passed, while 29,561,138 students did not move on to Class 11. The data revealed a notable increase in the number of students failing Class 10 exams over the past four years. In 2019, it was 1,09,800; in 2020, it was 1,00,812; in 2021, it dropped to 31,196, but in 2022, it spiked to 1,17,308.
Additionally, various education boards, such as the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), Assam Board of Secondary Education, Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB), Chhattisgarh Board of Secondary Education, Gujarat Secondary & Higher Secondary Education Board, Board of School Education Haryana (HSEB), Maharashtra State Board of Secondary & Higher Secondary Education, Board of Secondary Education Madhya Pradesh, Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad Uttar Pradesh, and others, also reported a significant number of Class 10 students failing in the past year.
