The pass percentage in class 12th in Haryana stood at 80.34 percent with girls outshining boys by scoring 86.30 pass percentage.
75.06 per cent boys have passed the senior secondary examination, results for which were declared by the Board of School Education, Haryana (BSEH) on Tuesday.
Manisha, an arts student of Government Senior Secondary School in Sihma, Mahendragarh district has topped in the HSBE class 12th exam by scoring pass percentage of 99.8.
The second position was bagged by Pushpa, a Commerce student from KVM Sr Secondary Schools in Kaithal district and Sanyam, a Commerce student from Sharda Sr Sec schools in Fatehabad who have scored 99.6 percent each.
Bhawana Yadav from Government Sr Secondary Schools in Rewari district scored 99.2 percent, highest in Science stream in the state.
In all, 2,12,693 candidates had appeared for the examination out of which 1,70,881 have passed this year. As many as 112816 boys took the examination out of which 84685 passed while 86196 out of the 99877 girls have passed.
This time, the pass percentage of private schools was recorded at 80.97 percent, better than 79.78 percent recorded in government schools of the state.
Apart from this, the students in urban areas of Haryana performed better than rural areas. The pass percentage of students in the urban areas was recorded 82.28 against 79.14 percent in the urban areas.
The pass percentage recorded in Science, Commerce and Arts stream was 82.55, 89.43 and 78.08 respectively.
Among districts, Panchkula stood high in the tally by achieving 90.01 pass percentage followed by Jind which recorded 86.53 percent. Sonepat district recorded the lowest pass percentage of only 71.83 percent.
Chairman of the Haryana School Education Board, Jagbir Singh informed that due to COVID-19 outbreak in March, the senior secondary class exams could not be held for all subjects. The remaining papers were cancelled and the Board has followed the assessment policy announced by CBSE Board to calculate marks awarded to the students for cancelled papers, he added.