Girls continued to outsmart boys in the results of Uttarakhand board with their pass percentage in both class X and XII results this year remained much higher than boys. The Chairman of Uttarakhand Vidhyalayi Shiksha Parishad (UVSP) and Secondary Education Director released the much awaited results at Ramnagar on Wednesday.
In the class XII examination, the pass percentage of girls stood at 83.14 which was much higher than the boys who managed a pass percentage of 73.55. While in the class X examination, the pass percentage of girls was 76.54 percent which also was higher than boys who had a pass percentage of 70.48. However, boys showed a marked improvement in their performance this year. The pass percentage of boys last year in classes XII and X examination was only 74.54 and 70.68.
The dominance of girls in Class XII examination was complete with top three positions saddled by them. In this examination, Priyanka Bhatt of HGSSV Memorial Inter College, Kusumkhera, Nainital was placed first in the merit list with 95 percent marks. She got 95 marks in English, 86 in Hindi, 98 in Mathematics, 99 in Physics and 97 in Chemistry and grabbed 475 marks out of 500. Vijay laxmi Goswami of PPSVM Inter College, Nanakmatta, Udham Singh Nagar got second position while third place was grabbed by Reena of Aadarsh Vidhya Mandir Inter College, Gopeshwar, Chamoli. Sarthak Dhulia of Kotdwar and Sarandeep Singh of Nanakmatta, Udham Singh Nagar secured fourth and fifth positions respectively.
Prashansa Pokhariyal of MP Hindu Inter College, Ramnagar, Nainital was ranked first in the merit list of class X. She secured 485 marks out of 500. Prabhakar Singh Parmar of Vivekanand VMHSS Ranikhet secured second rank with 96.8 percent marks. Vipul Sharma of Kotdwar, Pauri totaled 483 marks to secure third rank in the merit of class X. The fourth place was a tie between Sachin Singh Ghinga of Munsyari, Pithoragarh and Jyotsna Bisht of Gopeshwar, Chamoli with both securing 481 marks each.
The examinations of UVSP were conducted in the state betweenMarch 03 to April 03 this year at 1317 examination centres.
In class XII examination a total of 133064 students appeared while 162865 candidates appeared in class X examination. The board had set up 30 evaluation centres and had deployed 2134 and 1039 evaluators for class X and XII respectively.