“The Government reduced the Board Examination pass percentage criteria from 33% to 23%”
Social media posts
Claim dated 19 Jan 2021.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
No such announcement on revised Board Examinations pass percentage was found on the Ministry of Education and CBSE websites. Press Information Bureau (PIB) through their tweet clarified that the Minister of Education has not made such any such announcement on reducing Board Examination pass percentage
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 19 January 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 20 January 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
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