bengaluru the primary and secondary education department has been told to scale up remedial coaching for classes x and xii ii pu students to improve enrolment in higher educational institutions heis a meeting called by vijaya bhaskar additional chief secretary recently discussed the issue of low enrolment over the past seven yearsdata from all india survey of higher education aishe 201617 shows karnataka has recorded a gross enrolment ratio ger of 265 in the past seven years the least among south indian states gross enrolment ratio is the number of students enrolled for a particular level of education as a percentage of the population which is eligible for the samekarnataka has done better than the national average of ger 25 but its performance is poor when compared to that of its neighbours tamil nadu recorded the highest ger in seven years 47 followed by telangana 36 and kerala 34bhaskar said theres a gap of 40 points between karnatakas pass percentage in ii pu last year 52 and that of tamil nadus 92 better performance in class xii will definitely lead to better enrolment in higher educational institutions he said adding theres 20point difference in the pass percentages of the two states in class x as wellduring the final exams of class x and ii pu last year the department had done away with grace marks to understand the level of preparedness among studentsthe pass percentages in class x and ii pu have to improve we need to probe the nature of evaluation and the setting of papers as well he said