MP Board Results: Class 5, 8 pass percent declines; girls outshine boys

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education announced the results of class 5 and 8 examinations on Monday. School education minister Inder Singh Parmar released the exam results in Bhopal which were held on board pattern this year.

The overall pass percentage of class 5 is 82.27 percent, while that of class 8 is 76.09 percent.

In comparison to last year’s results, there is some decline in pass percentage of both the classes.

As far as gender wise exam results are concerned, girls once again outshone boys in both class 5 and 8 results.

Girls outshine boys

Over 6 lakh boys participated in class 5 exams, of which 4.8 lakh passed recording the pass percentage 80.34 percent. 

Over 5.73 lakhs girls wrote class 5 exams, of them 4.83 lakh passed. The pass percentage of girls is 84.3 percent.

On the other hand, in class 8, over 5.46 lakh boys appeared in the exam and over 4.01 lakh passed. The pass percentage of boys is 73.46 percent.

For girls, over 5.19 lakh girls sat in class 8 exams of which 4.09 lakh passed. The pass percentage for girls stands at 78.86 percent.  

Result site crashed

Students can view their results at rskmp.in.

Notably, the MPBSE result site crashed sometime after the release of results and displayed "Service Unavailable", causing much panic among students, parents and schools.