Girls again outsmarted boys in the results of Uttarakhand Board which were declared on Tuesday. In the class X examination the pass percent of girls was 76.46 per cent which was significantly higher than boys who managed a pass percentage of only 65.08; similarly in the class XII examinations the pass percentage of girls stood at 78.81 as compared to 70.47 per cent of boys.
The Chairman of Uttarakhand Vidhyalayi Shiksha Parishad (UVSP) and Director of Secondary education department, R K Kunwar released the result in Ramnagar at 11 am on Tuesday.
In class XII examination Anjali Rawat of Saraswati Balika Vidhya Mandir, Rishikesh and Kajal of SVMIC School Ranipur, Haridwar shared top rank with 95.20 percent marks each. Both girls scored 476 marks out of 500. The second place too was a tie between Pawan Kumar of Vivekanand Memorial Inter College, Bageshwar and Prachi Gupta of SSDPC Girls Inter College Roorkee, as both scored 475 marks each.
Pritam Singh of Saraswati Vidhya Mandir, Srinagar, Pauri Garhwal was ranked first in the merit list of class X. He secured 491 marks out of 500 (98.2 per cent). Saumya Shrivastava of VVMIC, Munsyari in Pithoragarh district secured second position by scoring 484 marks. In third position Depak Singh Mehra of Vivekanand Inter College Almora and Akshdeep Vatsal of RlS Chauhan Inter College, Jaspur U S Nagar secured 481 marks each.
Expressing happiness at the results, R K Kunwar said that the pass percentage of both class X and class XII has increased this time as compared with last year. In class XII examination the total pass percentage this year was 74.54 per cent while the corresponding figure last year was 70.39 per cent. Similarly the percentage of class X stood at 70.68 per cent this year which too is higher than a percentage of 67.40 last year.
The examinations of UVSP were conducted at 1304 examination centres in the state between March 10 to April 01. In class XII examination a total of 143159 students appeared while 169481 candidates appeared in class X examination. The UPSV deployed 3740 examiners to check the answer sheets of these candidates.