Girls surpassed boys in all the three streams viz science, arts and commerce in the intermediate examination results declared on Tuesday by Jharkhand Academic Council.
The Kolhan topper in science stream is Uma Shankar Tiwari from Karim City College with 83.6 per cent. While Savitri Kumari Pradhan from the Jamshedpur Women's College is the commerce topper in Kolhan with 79.2 per cent. Sonali Dhal from St Augustine College from Manoharpur with 73.4 per cent has been crowned as arts topper.
According to information the pass percentage of arts in Kolhan has been 71.41 per cent for boys and 74.6 per cent for girls. In commerce, 62.8 per cent boys have passed as compared to 74.24 per cent girls. The result of science has been shocking with only 28.7 per cent boys and 29.4 per cent girls receiving pass marks.
The pass percentage for boys in East Singhbhum has been 69.46 per cent, 69.94 per cent and 32.19 in arts, commerce and science respectively. While girls have bagged 74.03 per cent, 80.84 per cent and 37.11 per cent in the same streams respectively.
“We are not at all happy with the performances of our students in science though our teachers had put in lots of efforts but the out come has not been good. Our students have not been able in make into the topper’s list of the State perhaps for the first time,” said a Principal requesting anonymity
The district education officer (DEO), Ashok Kumar Sharma was satisfied with the performance in commerce and arts but not in science. "We are yet to anaylise the result but as per the initial understanding the performance in science is not satisfactory and we need to improve on it,"said Sharma.
“I am not at all happy with my performance. I was expecting more than 70 per cent marks but I had to satisfy with 50 per cent. It’s really shocking,” said Gurjit Kaur, a student. She further said that the science has never been high scoring but they never expected such marks.
Meanwhile, the poor performance of the students in intermediate examinations especially in science stream conducted by Jharkhand Academic Council has forced the city colleges to call meetings to review the performances and ponder over the dull show by the students.
Sources also informed that colleges like JKS College, and Graduate School College for Women have also called meetings to review the performance of the students.