Punjab Board (PSEB) Class XII results declared

Akash Ghai

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 11

The Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) on Monday declared the Class XII results, with an overall pass percentage of 76.2, which is 4.85 per cent less than the last year’s result.

(PSEB website)

This year again, girls have outshone boys by bagging the first three positions.

Darshveer Kaur Kalsi, a student of RS Model Senior Secondary School, Ludhiana, and Saima Rashid, a student of Khalsa Senior Secondary School, Ropar, were the toppers in the PSEB Class XII results.

Both, the science students, secured 100 per cent marks.

The second and third positions too were grabbed by Ludhiana students.

Sarika (Humanities), a student of BCM Senior Secondary School, Ludhiana, secured the second position.

Kajal Tandon of RSM School got 99.78 per cent marks and Nishtha Juneja of BCM School bagged the third positions securing 99.56 per cent.

Ludhiana district once again topped the list of meritorious students, with the maximum number of merit holders (119) in the overall list of 208 students.  

PSEB chairperson Tejinder Kaur Dhaliwal said that it was for the first time that the PSEB had declared its senior secondary exam result before the CBSE and ICSE results.

The Class X results would be declared within a fortnight.

The total number of students, who had appeared for the exams, were 3,39,818 in all streams out of which 2,59,080 students have passed.

The pass percentage of boys and girls is 70.73 and 83.26, respectively.

Rural students trailed urban students in pass percentage.

The pass percentage of the rural students is 76.41, exactly .38 per cent higher than the urban students, which is 76.05 per cent.