The Maharashtra State Board declared SSC 2026 results with regular students recording a 92.09% pass percentage, down from 94.10% last year. Board officials linked the decline partly to stricter anti-copying measures implemented during exams. Girls outperformed boys again, while Konkan division emerged as the state’s top-performing region with 97.62%.

Mumbai: The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) on Tuesday declared the Class 10 Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination results for 2026, recording a decline of 2.01 percentage points in the overall pass percentage compared to the previous academic year.

This year, regular students recorded an overall pass percentage of 92.09%, down from 94.10% in 2024-25, continuing a gradual decline observed since 2024, when the state had achieved nearly 95% results.

According to data released by the board, a total of 16,14,050 students, including regular, private and remedial candidates, had registered for the examination across the nine divisional boards of the state. Of these, 16,00,164 students appeared for the exams and 14,52,246 successfully passed, taking the combined pass percentage to 90.75%.

Among fresh regular candidates, 15,55,026 students had registered from divisions including Pune, Nagpur, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Mumbai, Kolhapur, Amravati, Nashik, Latur and Konkan. Of them, 15,42,472 appeared and 14,20,486 students cleared the examination.