Bhubaneswar: The results of the annual +2 Science examination conducted by the Odisha Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) were announced by School & Mass Education Minister Badri Narayan Patra at CHSE office here today.

The overall pass percentage has been recorded at 76.98 per cent. Out of 95,096 students who had appeared for the exam, 73,211 have passed.

A total of 19,561 students have passed in 1st division, 24,164 in 2nd class and 28,968 students in 3rd division.

Girls have outshined boys in the examination as 78.88 per cent of girl students passed the exam while 75.69 per cent of boys cleared it.

Nayagarh district achieved the highest success as a maximum of 92.23 per cent students from the district have passed the exam.

Lowest number of students have passed from Gajapati district with a pass percentage of 43.43.

Students can check their marks through the official website chseodisha.nic.in and orissaresults.nic.in.

The +2 examinations had started on March 6 at 1104 exam centres across the state and concluded on March 29. About 3.80 lakh students from 1,504 colleges in Science, Arts, Commerce and Vocational Education streams appeared for the examination this year.

Similarly, the evaluation of answer sheets was conducted at 56 centres in two phases-- first phase from April 4 to 14 and second phase from April 16 to 26.

Out of the 56 centres, e-evaluation of answer sheets was carried out at 29 centres. Around 7,000 teachers were roped in for the evaluation process.