The pass percentage in class 12th in Haryana stood at 63.84 percent with girls outshining boys by scoring 72.38 pass percentage.
57.10 per cent boys have passed the senior secondary examination, results for which were declared by the Board of School Education, Haryana (BSEH) on Friday.
Naveen, a student of Holy Child Senior Secondary School, Surya Nagar in Hisar and Heena of Government Senior Secondary School, Patel Nagar in Hisar has topped in the HSBE class 12th exam by scoring pass percentage of 98.2. Both are the students of science stream.
The second position was bagged by Sweety, a science student of Galaxy Senior Secondary School in Mahendragarh, Gurmeet of Arts stream from MD Girls School, Narwana in Jind by scoring 97.8 percent while the third position was bagged by Nishu, an arts stream student of Government Senior Secondary School for Girls, Nagura in Jind.
In all, 315900 candidates had appeared for the examination out of which 159490 have passed this year. As many as 173193 boys took the examination out of which 80572 passed while 78918 out of the 142707 girls have passed.
In the previous year, the overall pass percentage in class 12th was 64.50 in the state.
This time, the pass percentage of government schools stood at 63.62 while private schools recorded pass percentage at 64.06.
Apart from this, the students in rural areas of Haryana performed better than urban areas as the pass percentage of students in the rural areas was recorded 64.75 against 62.04 percent in the urban areas.
The pass percentage recorded in Science, Commerce and Arts stream was 67.38, 65.79 and 62.03 respectively.
Among districts, Rewari stood high in the tally by achieving 72.43 pass percentage followed by Kaithal which recorded 70.40 percent.
Chief Minister Manohar lal’s constituency, Karnal recorded pass percentage of 64.09 while Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma’s constituency Mohindergarh recorded 68.45 pass percentage in class 12th.
Palwal district performed worst registering pass percentage of only 44.64 percent followed by Mewat which recorded 50.29 percent pass percentage.
After the results, Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma has congratulated the students passed and also the ones topped in all three streams in the 12th class examination of Haryana School Education Board. He said that this time the pass percentage of students of rural areas has been higher than the urban area, which shows that there’s ample of talent in rural areas.
Chairman of the Haryana School Education Board, Jagbir Singh said that for the first time, the Board has decided to keep safe the certificates and result of students in Digilocker which could be downloaded from Board’s website when needed. This would facilitate students in getting admission to next classes, said he.
The digital locker would be maintained on the basis of candidate’s mobile number and the Aadhar card.
The result can also be checked on mobile app developed by the Board which could be downloaded from Google Play Store by searching “Education Board Bhiwani Haryana”, said he.
The chairman said that 222388 students had appeared in the senior secondary examination of which 141973 students have passed, 49163 have got compartments and 31252 students have failed.
On the basis of the result, those students who wish to apply for re-checking of their answer sheets can apply online with prescribed fee within 20 days from the date of declaration of result. The fee of re-checking would be Rs 800 for candidates belonging to BPl category and Rs 1,000 for candidates belonging to general category, he added.