Kodagu District has secured 55.7 per cent in the Students Evaluation Test for the year 2006-07 conducted by Karnataka School Quality Assessment Organisation. The results of this year have increased by 10 per cent from last year.

Karnataka School Quality Assessment Organisation brought the programme into force in the State from 2005-06 academic year in association with the Karnataka High School Board. During the first year, 25 lakh students of 46,000 schools across the State were brought under the programme while in Kodagu district specifically 16,217 students studying in class 2, 5 and 7 in all schools were brought under the students quality assessment programme. In the first year, Kodagu district secured 46 per cent result. This academic year, 3,145 students of 139 schools of Class 3, 3,696 students of 140 schools of class 5 and 3,901 students of 119 schools of class 7 were under the programme. In order to maintain transperancy in the examination, the trainees of D.Ed College were deployed.

While class 3 secured 64.3 per cent, Class 5 secured 45.5 per cent and class 7 bagged 60.7 per cent in the examination, informed Deputy Director of Public Instruction M Bashir.

He said that the main advantage of this system is that helps in the overall development of the students and the benefits are seen as they reach higher classes.