The girls outsmarted the boys in both Class X and Class XII board examinations of the Uttarakhand Vidhyalayi Shiksha Parishad. The results of these examinations were released in Ramnagar on Monday.
In the Class X examination the passing percentage of girls is 73.66 while the boys could only muster a pass percentage of 61.53. Class XII girls were even more impressive with a passing percentage of 77.67 against 61.53 per cent of boys.
Abhinav Rawat of Reeta Government Inter College Garhi Shyampur Dehradun stood first in the State in Class XII examinations as he scored 464 out of 500 marks i.e. 92.80 per cent. Aman Saini of TRRRSVM Inter college Kashipur (U S Nagar) and Kumari Aayushi Verma of TSS BVM inter college of Kashipur (US Nagar) got a joint second rank in State with 92.20 per cent marks. Kumari Anchal of RlS Chauhan SVMIC Jaspur stood third with 91.80 percent marks.
Class XII’s Vijay lakshmi Goswami of PPSVMIC Nanakmatta, US Nagar secured first rank with 95.6 per cent marks. Ashlesha Thapliyal of Birla Inter College Chinyalisaur, Uttarkashi and Pushkar Bora of Vivekananda IC Ranidhar Road, Almora got a joint second rank with 95.2 per cent marks while Nikesh Singh Rangar of SGSVMHSS laksheshwar, Uttarkashi and Aroma Indus of Vivekananda Inter College Ranidhara Road Almora secured a joint third rank with 95 per cent marks.
Among the districts, Bageshwar with a total pass percentage of 83.15 for Class XII topped the list while Haridwar lagged far behind with only 52.46 per cent. For Class X result too Haridwar lagged behind with only 58.48 per cent while Rudraprayag district took honours with an impressive 76.59 pass percentage.
The total passing percentage however is a cause of worry as it decreased for both Class X and XII this year as compared to last year. In Class X the result last year was a healthy 71.43 per cent against 67.40 per cent this year. With regard to Class XII too the passing percentage last year was an impressive 79.82 while this year its is only 70.39.
The Director of Secondary Education, C G Gwal who released the results told The Pioneer that factors like last years disaster took its bearing on the results. He said that the Education Department would categorise the schools on the basis of results in A, B and C categories. The schools scoring more than 80 per cent passing ratio would be given the A category and given a letter of appreciation while 60-80 percent passing ratio schools would be under B category, these schools would be asked to improve their results. The C category will be allotted to the schools with less than 60 per cent, the C category school heads would be served a notice in which they will be asked to explain the poor performance.