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PANAJI
Despite higher passing percentage recorded in the results of the Secondary School Certificate Examination announced by the Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, parents need not panic over admissions as there are proportionate seats available in Higher Secondary Schools, post-matric technical institutions and other formal skill development courses.
However, with demand for admissions to Std XI of the science and commerce streams, some level of intense competition may be witnessed in institutions offering these two streams, a senior faculty member of a city higher secondary school said.
Some higher secondary schools are in fact forced to set a cut-off percentage for enrollment of students. Normally, this cut-off is 75% for science, 70% in commerce and 60% for the Arts streams.
In 2018, a total of 17,886 students had passed the Goa Board’s SSC exam and as per statistics provided by the Education department, around 19,795 students (which include repeaters and students from other boards) had enrolled in the four streams of Std XI during the 2018-19 academic year.
In the Science stream 5,322 had enrolled which the Commerce stream had 6,038 students. The Arts stream had 4,921 while the 3,514 students took admission in the vocational stream.
This year, the number of students who passed the SSC exam is marginally lower as 17,278 have passed as against 17,886 who cleared the exam last year.
There are a total of 104 higher secondary schools in the State including nine
government schools.
Tiswadi has 18, Bardez has 11, Salcete (20 HSS) and Mormugao (8 HSS).
Sanguem taluka has only one higher secondary school. To come out of this situation, the government at that time had allowed some higher secondary schools having the infrastructure to increase the number of seats. This arrangement continues till date.
Other talukas have average number of higher secondary schools ranging from three to six.
In 2013, a record 18,171 students had passed the SSC exam which had created some load on the existing higher secondary education set up that year.
