Good results, but…
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Beaming faces of the students on the front page of the newspaper : this image shows that the students are over the moon as they have achieved a good result. To be more precise, this year 52,500 students have got GPA 5 in the said exams. And the pass rate is also very healthy : 71.81%,which is more than the pass rate of the previous year. Based on this result we cannot say that the quality of education has taken a huge stride. We cannot deny the fact that the rural-urban gap has widened as far as performance in the examination is concerned. It is reported that three lakh students, mostly from the rural areas, failed in the exams. It is the dearth of teachers in rural areas who can teach mathematics and English that is responsible for the failure of rural students. Again the dropout rate is high in rural areas as the parents cannot support their children's education. Finally, education should not become the sole possession of the well-off city-dwellers. As education is one of the basic needs, school education should be free so that all the people of the country get the benefit of it.
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