Jail inmates shine too, but pass % drops this yr

Prayagraj: At a time when school students made their parents and schools proud, inmates of 17 different prisons, including two central jails of Varanasi and Bareilly, too excelled in UP Board’s High School and Intermediate examination-2022.
The overall pass percentage among these jail inmates was 92.23% in class 10 and 70.83% in class 12. This was 0.24% less in class 10 and a 13.17% dip in class 12 as compared to 2020.
In 2021 when the Board exam was not conducted owing to pandemic and the Board had issued the results based on past performances of the students, the data of jail inmates was not released.
A total of 116 prison inmates, including 113 males and 3 females, registered themselves for class 10 exams while another 116 inmates including 115 males and 1 female registered for class 12 examination. Of these, 199 appeared in the two exams including 103 in class 10 and 96 in class 12 exam.
A total of 95 jail inmates were declared successful in class 10 examination, including 92 males and 3 females, and in class 12 exam 68 prisoners passed, all males.
In class 10, inmates of seven jails including, Firozabad, Rampur, Bareilly, Shahjahanpur Lucknow and Varanasi secured cent per cent results while in intermediate examination inmates of five jails including Agra, Ghaziabad, Saharanpur, Kanpur Nagar and Farrukhabad jails registered cent per cent result.
In class 10, Ghaziabad jail had maximum of 34 inmates registered for the exam while in intermediate examination also Ghaziabad jail had maximum of 28 inmates, who had filled the examination forms.
In 2019 UP Board examinations, prisoners pass percentage in class 10 exam was 77.42% while in class 12 examination it was 77.59%.