Girls have once again outperformed boys in the matriculation (Class X) examination, results of which were declared on Tuesday by the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB).
Board chairperson Tejinder Kaur Dhaliwal said that the top positions were bagged by the girls and their pass percentage was 78.30 per cent while pass percentage of boys was 67.43 per cent.
Board’s result, this year, stood at 72.25 per cent which was better by 7.5 per cent than previous year which was 65.77 per cent, she said. A total of 355 students secured a place in merit and the student placed last in this merit list got 625 marks out of 650, Dhaliwal said.
“The State witnessed an increase in the number of students getting more than 80 per cent marks for the second consecutive year,” she said. This year, 39,041 students got 80 per cent or more marks which included 10,255 students studying in government schools.
The cut out list of merit stopped at 96.18 per cent.
Among subjects, Punjabi got the top billing with pass percentage remaining at 94.98 per cent. Dhaliwal said that the pass percentage of rural area students was 72.66 per cent and that of urban area students was 71.46 per cent.
The result of affiliated schools was 82.76 per cent, associated schools 70.46 per cent, government schools 69.03 per cent and aided schools 69.28 per cent. Dhaliwal said that ludhiana district achieved the top ranking in merit list with 121 students. Bathinda and Hoshiarpur districts had 29 students each, Patiala had 28, Amritsar had 16 and Barnala had 15 students in the merit list.
In terms of pass percentage, Tarn Taran secured the first place with 93.24 percent pass percentage, followed by Gurdaspur (92.05 percent), Amritsar (89.41 percent), Pathankot (82.68 percent), Ferozepur (74.51 percent) and Hoshiarpur (73.05 percent).
PSEB, like its Class XII result, prepared separate merit lists for sportspersons and academic. In academic merit list, Simrandeep Kaur of BGSUS Senior Secondary School, Khadoor Sahib, Tarn Taran, stood first with 99.08 per cent marks followed by Simranjit Kaur of Prabhakar Senior Secondary School, Bhalla Colony, Chheharta in Amritsar, securing 98.92 per cent and Arsh Malhotra of Shivalik Model School, Jagraon of ludhiana securing 98.77 per cent marks.
In sports merit, Tanisha Sharma and Pushwinder Kaur of BCM Senior Secondary School, Jamalpur Colony, ludhiana, shared the top position with 100 per cent marks each. Damanpreet Kaur of Teja Singh Sutantar Senior Secondary School, Shimlapuri, ludhiana, secured second position with 99.85 per cent marks while Mehakjot Singh of the same school stood third with 99.69 per cent marks.
Dhaliwal disclosed that a total of 3,42,330 students appeared for the matriculation examination, out of which 2,47,340 students passed with the pass percentage remaining at 72.25 percent. The number of students who failed completely stood at 25,662, that is only 7.50 percent of the total students. Total 69,152 students (20.20 percent) got re-appear.