The Uttarakhand School Education Board examination results for Class X and XII were declared on Sunday with the girls overtaking the boys in the passing percentage in both class X and XII.
The board examination was held between March 4 and March 22, 2013 at 1,192 examination centres in the State. Around 2.30 lakh Class X and Class XII students had appeared in these exams.
Releasing the results, State secondary education director Chandra Singh Gwal said that in the high school examination, Rohit Pant of Vivekanand inter college, Almora, topped the merit list with 95.80 per cent followed by Nilesh Bisht of Vivekanand inter college, Almora with 95.20 per cent, Ayodhya Prasad Bhatt of SVMIC, New Tehri with 94.80 per cent,
Omkar Nailwal of Vivekanand inter college, Almora with 94.60 per cent, Sohan Kathait of SVMIC, New Tehri and Robin Singh of SVMIC, Chinyalisaur, Uttarkashi with 94 per cent, Vimal Kumar Pandey of SVMIC, Chinyalisaur, Uttarkashi, Ambika Chauhan of SVM higher secondary school, Ghansali, Tehri, Shriya Panday of Vivekanand inter college, Almora and Akanksha Singh of RlS Chauhan SVM inter college, Jaspur, Udham Singh Nagar with 93.80 per cent each.
In the intermediate examination, Navdeep Trivedi of MGGSVM inter college, Belani, Rudraprayag topped with 94 per cent followed by Vaibhav Kandpal of Vivekanand VM IC lohaghat, Champawat with 93.40 per cent, Mrigendra Manjul of MGGSVMIC Belani, Rudraprayag with 92.80 per cent, Pravesh Patwal of government inter college and Pankaj Chandra Upadhyay of VMJS government inter college, Bageshwar with 92.40 per cent each, Himanshu Joshi of Vivekanand VMIC, Champawat and Girish Bourai of Udairaj Hindu inter college, Kashipur, Udham Singh Nagar with 91.20 per cent each, Prashan Kumar of SVMIC Awas Vikas, Rishikesh and Rajendra Singh Mer of Shaheed Maj R Adhikari government inter college, Nainital with 90.20 per cent each and Akanksha Thapliyal of SVMICS Chinyalisaur, Uttarkashi with 90 per cent.
Gwal said that as in past years, the girl students outshone boys in the overall passing percentage. In the high school examination the passing percentage of girls was 76.66 per cent compared to 66.68 per cent of boys. Ambika Chauhan of SVM higher secondary school, Ghansali, Tehri topped among girls in the high school examination with 93.80 per cent.
In the intermediate examination, the passing percentage of girl students was 84.36 per cent compared to 75.61 per cent of boys. Akanksha Thapliyal of SVMICS Chinyalisaur, Uttarkashi with 90 per cent topped among the girls in the intermediate examination.