SET 2026–27 · One exam, two papers
On Sunday, 19 July 2026, students from 112 schools sat the Students Evaluation Test at 21 centres across West Bengal. They sat two papers that morning: a 50-question online paper and a 100-question written paper by subject. Both are now marked. This page reports both.
Both papers, side by sideThe online paper in figuresThe written paper in figures
The two papers are different lengths and different difficulties, so they are never added together into a single mark. Each is reported against its own total and its own roster.Reported against its own total and its own roster. The 100-question written paper sat the same morning is reported separately, and the two are never added together.Reported against its own total and its own roster. The 50-question online paper sat the same morning is reported separately, and the two are never added together.
Each paper’s turnout is measured against its own roster.Turnout is measured against this paper’s own roster.Turnout is measured against this paper’s own roster. The written roster is 0 students larger than the online one, because a few candidates were admitted after the online exam had already been sat.
The same children, 8 points apart
6,752 students sat both papers on the same morning. Putting both marks on a common scale of 100 is the only fair way to hold them side by side.
It is twice as long, it runs on subject syllabus rather than general aptitude, and it asks students to hold a hundred questions in one sitting. An 8-point gap on the same children, on the same morning, is a property of the papers — not of the students.
Real, but far from perfect. A child who did well on one paper did not reliably do well on the other. That is the clearest argument in the data for having set two papers rather than one: each finds something the other misses.
The shape of each paperThe shape of the paperThe shape of the paper
Read this as the shape of the cohort, not as a pass mark. There is no pass mark on either paper.
The same 6,775 students read a different way: how many scored at least a given mark. Half the cohort — 3,488 students — scored 25 or more.
The written marks run the whole way from 0 to 100 — a far wider spread than the online paper, which is what a hundred subject questions will do. The middle student scored 42.
3,569 students — just over half — scored between 15 and 29 on the online paper. This is where most of the cohort sits.
601 students scored 45 or more. That is a real group, not a scattering of outliers — and 64 of them answered every question correctly.
Most of the 223 students in the 0–4 band opened the paper and answered almost nothing. We report them rather than remove them.
Four classes, four sets of papers
These four columns are not a ranking. Class IX, X, XI and XII each sat papers written for their own year, on their own syllabus. A mark on one class’s paper is not the same as a mark on another’s — so Class XII standing highest says nothing about Class X’s students.
Where the cohort is strong, and where it needs help
The written paper is sat by subject, so for the first time the exam can say what students found hard rather than only how much. Every figure below is the share of that subject’s questions answered correctly. A subject may be named as weak; a school never is.
Class IX — Mathematics, 33.0%.Class X — History, 23.7%.Class XI Arts — History, 30.0%.Class XII Arts — History, 35.6%.Four separate papers and four separate cohorts. This is a curriculum signal, not a school one.
Class IX 33.0% and Class X 30.3% — the years where the foundation is laid. It recovers to 43.1% in Class XI Science, where only students who chose it sit it.
Cost & Taxation 75.9%, Business Studies 71.0%, Accountancy 65.3%. Commerce students answered around three questions in four correctly.
Commerce 76.4% · Science 77.6% · Arts 68.0%. English & General Knowledge is the strongest section of all three Class XII papers. In vernacular-medium schools that is worth stating plainly.
Every student in these two years sat all seven sections, so the two years can be compared section by section — the one place on this page where two classes are held against each other, and it is honest because it is the same seven sections either side.
Class X answered less of Physical Science and History correctly than Class IX did, on the year’s own paper — 34.7% down to 26.5%, and 34.5% down to 23.7%. Those two sections are where a teaching intervention would show the fastest return.
Twenty-five questions per subject. Each row shows Class XI and Class XII on the same 0–100 scale, so the movement between the two years is visible at a glance. Each subject sits under the stream whose students actually sat it.
Every subject shown was sat by at least thirty candidates. Where fewer than thirty students sat a subject the figure is withheld: an average built on a handful of children is noise, and it can identify them. That is why a few subjects appear for one year only.
The three zones performed alike
Just 3.31 marks out of a hundred separate the highest zone from the lowest. On a cohort of 7,322 children drawn from every centre in the exam, that is the finding: where a child sits the exam is not what decides their mark.
Perfect papers
students scored 50 out of 50.
No student is named here — every one of the 64 sees their own result on their portal.
One student, in Class XII, answered every one of the hundred questions correctly.
Class IX and Class X produced their highest marks on the same figure, 83, on two different papers.
Final merit under Project UDAAN is decided on both papers together. Nothing on this page is a final award.
Schools we want to thank
The eight schools whose students averaged highest on the online paper. The figure is the average of the students from that school who sat, so a school with 26 students and one with 208 are measured the same way. Only schools with at least 25 students sitting are listed, because small groups swing wildly. This is not a league table, and there is no bottom of it.
112 schools took part in all. Every one of them sent students into a paper they had never seen before. School-level figures for the written paper will be added here when the per-school written breakdown is published.
Twenty-one centres
Twenty-one centres opened on 19 July for both papers. Turnout is the share of students on a centre’s roster who sat the online paper.
More students sat the written paper than the online one. We publish the shortfall on both because it matters: it is a phone shared between siblings, a network that dropped, a family who moved, an exam morning that went wrong. Understanding it is part of the work of the next round.
| Exam centre | Registered | Sat | Turnout | Average of 50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aulad Hussain Islamic Academy | 386 | 344 | 89.1% | 28.55 |
| Jay Kay Nagar High School (H.S) | 220 | 196 | 89.1% | 23.05 |
| Dhankheti High School (H.S.) | 295 | 248 | 84.1% | 28.00 |
| Rahmatnagar Iqbal Academy High School (H.S.) | 107 | 90 | 84.1% | 25.81 |
| Maulana Hasrat Mohani Memorial Girls' High School (H.S.) | 474 | 395 | 83.3% | 26.02 |
| Madrasah Islamia High Madrasah (H.S.) | 343 | 282 | 82.2% | 20.71 |
| Raniganj Anjuman Urdu Girls, High School (H.S.) | 727 | 590 | 81.2% | 26.95 |
| Belgachia Urdu High School (Co.Ed) | 286 | 227 | 79.4% | 32.49 |
The eight centres with the highest turnout, of twenty-one. Averages differ between centres partly because centres draw on different schools and different mixes of classes.
The hardest and easiest questions
For every online question we know the share of students in that class who answered it correctly. Across all four papers that share ran from about 19% to 92%.
A question this hard tells the paper-setters as much as it tells the students.
Almost the whole year group had this one.
The same question-by-question analysis for the hundred written questions per class is prepared and will be published alongside the text of the questions once KIDS confirms it.
From results to action
Final merit under Project UDAAN is decided on both papers together. Awards are announced to schools directly.
Physical Science and History in Classes IX and X are where the subject data points most clearly. Teacher training and residential coaching will be planned against these findings.
Students, schools and centres will be honoured at the UDAAN felicitation ceremony. Dates will be announced to schools and published here.
Both papers, your class rank and your answer sheets are on your personal result page. Sign in with the roll number on your admit card, or scan its QR code.
All figures on this page are drawn from the assessed papers of the Students Evaluation Test held on 19 July 2026, and are published for verification. The online paper is marked out of 50 and the written paper out of 100; the two are never added together. Where a figure is an average, it is the average of the students who sat, never of those registered, and each paper’s turnout is measured against that paper’s own roster. Subject figures are withheld where fewer than thirty candidates sat the subject. Schools or parents who believe a figure is wrong may write to KIDS at the address below.