Telangana Intermediate Results Announced, Girls Shine

The Telangana Intermediate Board exam results for 2020 were announced for both the first and second year examinations today.

As usual, girls fared better than boys.

Medchal and Komaram Bhim Asifabad districts ranked first, with 75% and 76% of the students of those districts respectively passing.

Education Minister Sabitha Indra Reddy announced the results at a media conference at the Board of Intermediate Education office in Nampally, and gave some statistics.

She said that a total of 9,65,839 students appeared for the exams, including 4,80,516 for the first year and 4,85,323 for the second year exams.

67.47% of those who appeared for them passed the first year exams, and 68.86% passed the second year exams.

The first year exams saw 67% of the girls passing them compared to 52.3% of the boys. The corresponding numbers for the second year are 75.15% and 62.1%.

The supplementary exam results will be announced soon.

The minister also asked the parents seeking revaluation to get it done as per the schedule.

The minister said that the Board had taken all the necessary precautions to avoid the lapses of last year in the results. The officials used OCR and OMR technologies to decide and declare the results, she said.

The Intermediate Public Examinations of 2020 were held from March 4 to 21 (one postponed exam was conducted on June 3). 25,000 invigilators conducted exams for nearly ten lakh students at 1,339 exam centres. The valuation was completed during the lockdown as per the instructions of the Chief Minister taking all possible precautions against the coronavirus. 15,000 evaluators evaluated the answer scripts without a single case of the coronavirus being reported as a result of the exercise.