Girls outshine boys in Haryana board class-12 result

Deepender Deswal

Tribune News Service

Hisar, July 21

The Board of School Education Haryana, Bhiwani, declared the result of class 12 examinations on Tuesday with 80.34% of the students passing the test.

The girls again are ahead of the boys with the success rate of 86.30% while the boys have a pass percentage of 75.06.

The board could hold the examination of 22 subjects out of a total of 42 subjects in the three streams of Arts, Commerce and Science. It has compiled the result on the basis of the average marks secured by the students in the examinations which were conducted by the board.

BSEH chairman Jagbir Singh said an Arts stream girl Manisha of the government senior secondary school in Sihma village of Mahendergarh district has topped the examination with 499 out of 500 marks.

Monika of Hisar and Amandeep Kaur of Sirsa district got second position with 497 marks each.

In the Commerce stream -- two students – Pushpa of the KVM senior secondary school in Pai village of Kaithal district and Sanyam of the Sharda senior secondary school in Fatehabad town have been declared joint toppers with 498 marks out of a total of 500 marks.

Ansu of Hisar and Muskan of Jind district have bagged joint second position with 496 marks, Singh said.

The chairman said the Science stream has the topper from Rewari’s Bodia Kamalpur village as the girl of this village’s government senior secondary school Bhawna got 496 marks.

Amit of Bhiwani, Monu Kumari of Charkhi Dadri, Shrutika of Kurukshetra and Kajal of Jhajjar district have secured joint second position by getting 495 marks each.

He added that a total of 2,12,693 students have appeared in the senior secondary examination, of which 1,70,881 students have been declared as pass. While 32,361 students have got the re-appears in certain subjects, 9,451 students have been withheld in examination.

Urban students have pass percentage of 82.28% while 79.14% rural students have been successful. Private school students have put up marginally better result with 80.97% as compared to government school students who have secured success percentage of 79.78%.

The students who appeared in the Haryana Open Schooling system have a pass percentage of 64.83%. The pass percentage is highest in last four years. In 2019, 2018 and 2017, the pass percentage was 74.48, 63.84 and 64.50, respectively. 

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