Karnataka II PUC result 2020 announced; pass percentage improves
The result of the Karnataka second-year Pre-University Certificate (PUC) exam has been announced on Tuesday (July 14)
FollowBengaluru: The result of Karnataka Pre-University Education (PUE) or PUC Class 12 exams were declared on Tuesday, July 14.
A total of 5.95 lakh students who had appeared in the PUC II exam can check their results through the website karresults.nic.in.
A total of 69.20% students cleared the PUC 2nd year exam this year. The pass percentage was quite higher than last year, which was 61.73%.
Udupi, Dakshin Karnataka topped among districts with 90.71%. Kodagu has secured the pass percentage of 81.53%.
Last year over 66.58% of science students successfully cleared the second PUC examination. The commerce stream had a passing percentage of 66.39%. On the other hand, in 2019, the arts stream students had the passing percentage of 50.53%. In 2019, Udupi was the best performing district in Karnataka.
Like other boards, the PUC II exam was also affected due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The only remaining paper (English) which was originally scheduled to be held on March 23, was conducted on June 18. The students took up the exam following appropriate social distancing norms and health checks.
The department of pre-university education had issued the standard operating procedures for conducting the examination including sanitising the exam halls, the length of the benches, the number of students to be present in each room, thermal screening and usage of sanitisers and masks.
Karnataka is one of the few states which conducted the examinations during the coronavirus crises. The results, however, were pushed due to the lockdown situation by over two months.
The state education board had earlier decided that the result will be out by July 20. However, the results have been announced earlier to the date.
