SSLC exam results 2025: 144 schools record zero pass percentage; 22 students score 625/625
Bengaluru: The Karnataka School Examination and Assessment Board (KSEAB) has announced the results of the 2024-25 academic year's SSLC (Secondary School Leaving Certificate) examinations, revealing mixed outcomes across the state.
A total of 144 schools have recorded zero pass percentage, raising serious concerns about the quality of education in these institutions. Of these, 108 are unaided schools, 30 aided, and 6 government-run schools.
In contrast, 921 schools achieved 100% pass results, comprising 539 unaided, 329 government, and 53 aided schools.
22 students secure 100% marks
An impressive 22 students scored a perfect 625 out of 625 marks, while 65 students scored 624, 108 scored 623, 189 scored 622, 259 scored 621, and 327 scored 620 marks.
Overall pass percentage at 66.14%
Out of 7,90,890 students who appeared for the examination, 5,23,075 students passed, recording an overall pass percentage of 66.14%.
District-wise performance
Dakshina Kannada district secured the top position with a pass percentage of 91.12%, where 25,326 out of 27,795 students passed.
Udupi district came second with 89.96%, as 12,215 of 13,579 students passed.
Uttara Kannada took the third position.
Kalaburagi district ranked last with a pass percentage of just 42.43%, where only 16,658 out of 39,257 students cleared the exam.
Category-wise results
Unaided schools: 75.59%
Government schools: 62.7%
Aided schools: 58.97%
Exam details
The SSLC exams were conducted across 2,818 centres in Karnataka from March 21 to April 4, 2025, with around 8.96 lakh students (4,61,563 boys and 4,34,884 girls) appearing for the exams.
Official announcement
Primary and Secondary Education Minister Madhu Bangarappa officially released the results at a press conference held at the Board of Secondary Education office in Malleswaram, Bengaluru.
Students can check their results at the official websites: kseab.karnataka.gov.in or karresults.nic.in.
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High courts upheld only 8 per cent of death sentences; SC confirms none in recent years: Report
New Delhi (PTI): Highlighting that a high acquittal rate of death row convicts by the Supreme Court and high courts demonstrates a pattern of "erroneous or unjustified convictions", a study of 10 years of death penalty data has revealed that the top court did not confirm any death sentences in recent years.
The study by Square Circle Clinic, a criminal laws advocacy group with the NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad, found that an overwhelming majority of death sentences imposed by trial courts did not withstand scrutiny at higher judicial levels. Acquittals far outnumbered confirmations at both the high courts and Supreme Court levels.
According to the report, the trial courts across India awarded 1,310 death sentences in 822 cases between 2016 and 2025. High courts considered 842 of these sentences in confirmation proceedings but upheld only 70 or 8.31 per cent.
In contrast, 258 death sentences (30.64 per cent) resulted in acquittals. The study noted that the acquittal rate at the high court level was nearly four times the confirmation rate.
Data showed that of the 70 death sentences confirmed by high courts, the Supreme Court decided 38 and did not uphold a single one. The apex court has confirmed no death sentences between 2023 and 2025.
"Wrongful or erroneous or unjustified convictions, then, are not random or freak accidents in the Indian criminal justice system. The data indicates they are a persistent and serious systemic concern," the report said.
Over the last decade, high courts adjudicated 1,085 death sentences in 647 cases, confirming only 106 (9.77 per cent). During this period, 326 persons in 191 cases, were acquitted.
The report attributed low confirmation rates to the appellate judiciary’s concerns regarding failures in due process. "This coincides with increased Supreme Court scrutiny of safeguards at the sentencing stage," the report said.
Of the 153 death sentences decided by the apex court over the last decade, the accused were acquitted in 38 cases. In 2025 alone, high courts overturned death sentences into acquittals in 22 out of 85 cases (over 25 per cent). The same year, Supreme Court acquitted accused persons in more than half of the death penalty cases it decided (10 out of 19), the report said.
The study highlighted that 364 persons who were ultimately acquitted "should not even have been convicted and unjustifiably suffered the trauma of death row". It added that such failures extend beyond adjudication and reflect serious lapses in investigation and prosecution.
The question of remedies for wrongful convictions remains pending before the Supreme Court. In September 2025, three persons acquitted by the apex court filed writ petitions seeking compensation from the state and argued that their wrongful convictions violated their fundamental right to life and liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution.
"In 2022, the Supreme Court crystallised a sentencing process in Manoj v. State of Madhya Pradesh , and mandated all courts to follow those guidelines before imposing or confirming a death sentence," the report read.
In 2025, the apex court held in Vasanta Sampat Dupare v. Union of India that death penalty sentencing hearings form part of the right to a fair trial and stressed that capital punishment can be imposed only after a constitutionally compliant sentencing process.
"However, even at the high courts whether the process mandated under Manoj is being complied with is in doubt,” the report said.
