The trend of girls outsmarting the boys continued in the Class XII results of Central Board of Secondary Educations (CBSE), the results of which were declared on Thursday. 73.28 per cent students passed from the schools affiliated to the newly constituted regional office of CBSE, Dehradun, the pass percentage of girls was an impressive 82 while the boys could muster a pass percentage of 73.
The assistant Secretary CBSE, Ranbeer Singh informed that 1,10,855 students appeared in the class XII examinations from the 884 schools in the region. He said that in independent (pvt) schools category the pass percentage of Boys is 73.28 while for girls it the percentage is 83. Singh lauded the efforts of the employees of the newly constituted regional office who completed the examination process in time despite a severe shortage of staff and time.
Thirty seven students of Doon International school scored 90 per cent and above marks. The school informed that their student Rajat Dhobhal who got an aggregate of 96.2 per cent is the school topper in the science stream. Ritvik Rawat and Anananyamiya Shah secured second and third positions with 95.4 and 95.2 per cent marks respectively. In the commerce stream Sneh Darshi topped with 93.6 percent marks while Somya Kant and Mohit Rawat stood second and third respectively.
In the Scholars Home School, Tapan Pandey topped the science stream with 97.2 per cent marks while Prabhpreet Bajaj topped the commerce stream with 93 per cent marks. Kashish Thakur secured 97.4 per cent marks and topped the Humanities stream. In the Drona's International school, Garima secured first rank with 94.4 per cent marks.
In the Asian Public school there are 29 students who have scored above 90 per cent marks. In the Science stream Poorvi Maheshwari topped the merit list with 96 percent marks.
Agniv Sharma, Vaibhav Gosain and Somyaa Agarwal secured joint second position with a score of 95.4 per cent marks. Astha Gupta stood third by securing an aggregate of 94 per cent marks. In the Commerce stream Akansha Jain with a score of 95 per cent marks topped the school while Vandita Anand scored 94.4 per cent marks to grab second position. Sucheta Garg and Akansha Thakur scored 90.6 per cent marks each and were third in the school's merit list. In the humanities stream, Saloni Chawla topped the merit list with total of 88.8 per cent marks. Aastha Mullick and Gajendra Pratap Singh Yadav secured a joint second rank with a score of 88.2 per cent while Jasmine Malhotra stood third by scoring 86 per cent marks.