Divyanshi from Fatehpur has secured 95.40 per cent marks to top the Intermediate merit list of the UP Board of Secondary Education exams, the results of which were announced along with those of High School on Saturday.
The second position in the merit list is shared by Anshika Yadav from Prayagraj and Yogesh Pratap from Barabanki with 95 per cent marks while Balkrishna of Fatehpur is at the third position with 94.20 per cent marks.
In the High School results, Prince Patel of Kanpur Nagar has topped the merit list with 97.67 per cent marks. The second position is shared by two girls, Sanskriti Thakur of Moradabad and Kiran Kushwaha while Aniket Sharma of Kannauj is at the third position.
The UP Board of Secondary Education (Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad Uttar Pradesh) announced the results of its High School and Intermediate examination of 2022 on Saturday. The results were declared by Director of Secondary Education Dr Sarita Tiwari.
Total pass percentage of Intermediate examination is 85.33. However, as usual, the girls have fared better in the Intermediate exams than boys. While 90.15 per cent of the girls who appeared in the intermediate exam cleared it, only 81.21 per cent boys have been successful.
In the High School exams too, the girls have outperformed boys again this year. While 91.69 per cent of the girls examinees have been successful, 85.25 per cent boys have been able to clear the exam.
The UP Board had registered 24,10,971 students for the Intermediate examination — 22,62,139 regular and 1,48,832 private students — out of which only 22,37,578 appeared at examination which were held at 8,316 centres between March 24 and April 12. The evaluation of the answer sheets took place at 131 centres from April 23 to May 7.
To everybody's surprise, the pass percentage of private students (91.23 per cent) is better compared to the regular ones (84.96 per cent) in the Intermediate exams.
According to Dr Sarita Tiwari, 27,81,645 students were registered for the High School examination but 25,20,634 students took their exams and out of them 22,22,745 (88.18 per cent) have been successful — 11,69,488 male students and 10,53,257 female students.
The top ten merit holders in the High School exams are Prince Patel of Kanpur Nagar who has secured the first rank. He is followed by Moradabad’s Sanskriti Thakur and Kiran Kushwaha of Kanpur Nagar at second position, Kannauj’s Aniket Sharma (third rank), Aastha of Prayagraj (fourth rank), Pranshi Dwivedi from Kanpur (fifth rank), Sitapur’s Sheetal Verma (sixth rank), Mau’s Harshita Sharma (seventh rank), Ashutosh Kumar of Varanasi (eighth rank), Ajay Pratap of Rae Bareli (ninth rank) and Abhay Patel (tenth rank).