Setting a benchmark for other districts of the State, Naxal and human trafficking prone district Khunti grabbed the top slot in the State registering the highest pass percentage where 86.71per cent boys and 92. 86 per cent girls came out with flying colours after the declaration of Intermediate Arts stream results. The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) on Tuesday declared the result of Intermediate Arts stream. As many as 1.33 lakh students from across the State were declared successful.
Sister Anshu Mala Toppo of St. Anne’s Convent School Ranchi topped the State by securing 84.6 per cent in the exam. Toppo secured 473 marks out of 600. Toppo got 94 marks in Hindi, 91 in Geography, 83 in History, 80 in Political Science, 75 in English and 77 in Sociology. Ursuline Convent Girls’ High School, popularly known as the toppers’ factory once again scripted history. Vaishnavi Kumari of Ursuline Convent clinched top position in Ranchi district. Kumari scored 83.6 percent in the exam.
This year in humanities stream, approximately, 1,85,551 students appeared for the examination from across the State. Around 9,859 students grabbed the first division marks in Arts stream whereas 88,921 students were placed in second division.
In 2017, approximately, 79,632 boys took Intermediate Arts examination where around 55 thousand boys were declared successful with the total pass percentage 69.19 percent. Girls outperformed boys in inter Arts exam, total 74.02 percent girls from Jharkhand were declared successful.
Registering the lowest pass percentage, Dumka district was placed in bottom. At Dumka, only 45.06 percent boys were declared successful while 50.83 per cent girls cleared the examination. Meanwhile, as per the official figures released by the council, the result of Humanities stream has shown a declining trend this year with the total pass percentage going down to 71.95 per cent. In 2016, the overall pass percentage was 74.19 per cent, the highest among all the streams. In 2015, 2014, 2013 as well the overall pass percentage of Humanities stream was recorded 81.36 per cent, 83.16 per cent and 72.92 percent respectively.
This year, the pass percentage of class X has also gone down to 57.91 per cent while class XII intermediate results (Science and Commerce) has also shown a declining trend, recording the lowest pass percentage in last 12 years.
The officials at JAC credited the fall in pass percentage in Humanities stream to the stringent ways that was adopted during the examination and while scrutinizing the answers scripts. Recently, JAC had declared Inter Science and Commerce results on May 30 on its official website. A total of 3,26,107 students across Jharkhand took Intermediate exams that was scheduled from February 18 to Mar 9, 2017at 450 exam centres in Jharkhand.