Those who appeared for the Maharashtra State Board's Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination this year have done wonders with the Mumbai division recording an average pass percentage of 96.72, the highest in 15 years. Re-introduction of the internal assessment marks had a positive impact on the overall results as the pass percentage has seen a sharp increase from last year's 77.04.

The state government had received major flak after it discontinued the practice of including 20 marks of internal assessment in the SSC results. As a result of this, the pass percentage had dropped majorly. This year a total of 15,75,103 candidates appeared for the examination from across Maharashtra. Out of them, 15,01,105 got a pass percentage of 95.30. Apart from this, the number of students scoring above 90 per cent has also increased.