Student Flow at Primary Level - DISE

Average Flow Rates39percent girls (Table 17). The distribution of repeaters by reasons furtherreveals that 6 out of 10 repeaters repeat just because of failure (56.94percent). On the other hand, 27.42 percent repeat because of the longabsenteeism and another 15.74 percent because of re-admissions.The state-specific repetition rate further reveals that as many as 6.29percent children repeated primary classes in 2004-05 compared to 7.83percent in the year 2003-04. No difference is noticed between boys (6.28percent) and girls (6.29 percent) repeating primary grades in 2004-05.The average repetition rate in a few states, such as, Arunachal Pradesh(15.72 percent), Bihar (13.54 percent), Chhattisgarh (12.14 percent),Gujarat (11.09 percent), Sikkim (21.59 percent), Tripura (15.25 percent)and West Bengal (13.63 percent) is observed to be very high and abovethe national average (6.29 percent); hence immediate attention is requiredin this respect. High repetition rate among primary grades in these statesis because of very high repetition rate in Grade I. Most of the major stateshave reasonably lower repetition rate in primary grades. In as many as 14states, the average repetition rate reported in primary classes is lowerthan the average of all districts (6.29 percent).On the one hand the promotion rate (77.61 percent) in Grade I is observedto be very low compared to the other primary grades, while on the otherFigure 10Average Flow Rates: Cohorts 2004-05 & 2005-06hand, the repetition rate in Grade I is also noticed to be very high (10.51percent) among the primary grades. However, the same has significantlydeclined to 10.51 percent in 2004-05 from 12.34 percent in 2003-04 whichis an encouraging signal. However, clearer trend will emerge when flow