The state’s as well as the Mumbai division’s pass percentage of Std X board result dropped by over 3 per cent, as compared to the previous year. The state board chief said the major reason behind the drop was the pandemic’s impact on students’ writing and learning abilities. 

Many factors may have led to this decline, the major one being the impact of the pandemic-induced lockdown on the learning abilities of the students, and the effective anti-copying campaign that we conducted during the exams across the state.”