The girls have outnumbered their male counterparts in the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) Class XII result, announced on Sunday, by bagging the top three positions in the region.
Out of the total pass percentage of 84.42 per cent, the girls surpass boys with a combined percentage of 89.82 against the boys’ 79.81 per cent. The figure has improved by 5.45 per cent as the previous year’s overall percentage was 79 per cent. With around 500 students, out of the total 2.98 lakh students appearing in the exams, have made it to the merit list, Muskan Verma of Fazilka’s Government Girls Senior Secondary School has secured the first position scoring 99.56 per cent marks. Muskan has scored 448 out of 450 marks.
On the second place is Daisy Garg from Sangrur’s Springdales Public Senior Secondary School with 98.22 per cent marks, with and Charu of Muktsar’s GTB Khalsa Senior Secondary School following her close at the third rank with 98 per cent overall marks.A total of 2,99,057 students appeared in the Punjab Board’s Class XII examination conducted in March this year, out of which 2,52,471 students have passed as per the results announced by the Board on Sunday.
Out of the 1,61,301 boys appearing in the exam, 1,28,735 succeeded, as compared to 1,37,756 girls appearing, out of which 1,23,736 were passed.The pass percentage of the students who appeared for rural areas was recorded at 83.9 per cent, just a few notches less then that the students who appeared from urban areas at 85.04 per cent. A total of 1,61,358 students in the rural areas sit in the examination, out of which 1,35,377 have been passed, against 1,17,094 students succeeding in the exam out of 1,37,699 in urban areas.
Adarsh schools remained on top among the schools with 88.42 per cent students passing the examination. Out of 1,123 students, 993 were passed. Following it were government-affiliated institutes wherein 1,14,762 students out of 1,35,342 were passed with 84.79 percentage. Out of 1,58,535 government school students, 1,33,418 were passed with 84.16 per cent, and 3298 government aided school students out of 4057 were passed with 81.29 per cent rate.
Among the districts, ludhiana, having a substantial ground in the overall merit list, has emerged on the top with maximum number of rank holders — 108.The next one to follow is Patiala with 39, Sri Muktsar Sahib with 36, Hoshiarpur with 29, Fazilka with 25, Amritsar with 22, Sangrur and Jalandhar with 19 each, Faridkot with 14, Moga with 12, Bathinda with 11, Gurdaspur and Tarn Taran both with nine each, Ropar with eight, Fatehgarh Sahib with seven, Barnala with five.
The remaining Ferozepur, Mansa, SBS Nagar, Pathankot, and Mohali has three students each in the merit list, while Kapurthala has just one student in the merit list.