With 73.15 percent successful students Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) became the first State board in the nation this year to declare the matriculation examination results.
Hazaribagh, Koderma, Palamu and Giridih districts have got the maximum number of successful candidates in the state this time with 79.550 per cent, 79.265 per cent, 78,137 per cent and 77.619 per cent students clearing the examination respectively.
Overall 4,73,186 candidates applied for matric examination across the State of which 4,69,667 had appeared and 3,43,583 candidates succeeded. HRD Principal Secretary Dr DK Tiwari said, “Compared to the result of 2004-05, the number of appearing candidates had doubled this year.”
After 2010, it was this year that JAC marked a successful result with more than 70 per cent passing out with flying colours. The result was inaugurated by Advisor to Governor K Vijay Kumar on Tuesday afternoon.
Boys outshined girls by 5 percentages this time with 182888 boys out of 242822 boys have passed the matric exam making the success percentage 75.32 percent. On the other hand, 160695 girls passed out of 226845 girls by making the pass percentage 70.84 percent.
JAC’s introduction of model question papers and step marking system turned fruitful with this year’s result. JAC officers across the State for publication of the result in a span of one month, JAC Chairperson Dr Anand Bhushan said, “State Government ought to make the work process of the District Education Officers strict.”