In this year’s
HSC and equivalent examinations, a picture of disaster is evident across all
result indicators. The pass rate has dropped to 52.12 percent, which is the lowest
in the past 22 years.
In the Humanities
group alone, 58 percent of students failed. A total of 3,82,000 examinees
failed in English and ICT, accounting for 64 percent of all failing students.
These results have raised fresh questions about the country’s education system,
classroom instruction, student preparation,...
