The old story of the girls outshining boys repeated as the results of class X and XII board examination of Uttarakhand board were declared on Saturday. The results of the Uttarakhand Vidhyalayi Shiksha Parishad (UVSP) popularly called Uttarakhand board were released simultaneously by the Education Minister Arvind Pandey and the chairman of UVSP R K Kunwar from Dehradun and Ramnagar respectively.
In class XII, 75.03 percent of boys cleared the examinations as compared with 82.83 percent of girls while the overall pass percentage in class XII was 78.97. In class X also the girls with a pass percentage of 80.22 percent were way ahead of boys who had a pass percentage of 68.96 percent only.
In class X, Kajal Prajapati of Khatima in Udham Singh Nagar district topped the merit with 98.4 percent marks. She scored 492 marks out of 500 while in class XII, Divyanshi Raj of Jaspur Udham Singh Nagar got 98.40 percent marks to secure first rank.
Releasing the results, the board chairman, R K Kunwar said that in class X, a total 149445 candidates were registered out of which 146166 students appeared in the examination and 109006 students cleared the examination.
He further informed that 13281 candidates were registered for class XII examination out of which 130094 appeared in the examination and 102743 students were declared pass in the examination.
Kunwar said that it is a good sign that the pass percentage of Uttarakhand board is increasing steadily.