Girls trumped boys in the Jharkhand Academic Council’s (JAC) class 12 results for Arts stream declared on Tuesday by securing a pass percentage of 81.50. On the other hand, 77.91 per cent of boys, who appeared in the exams, passed.
The performance of students witnessed considerable improvement compared to last year as the total pass percentage jumped from 72.62 per cent in 2018 to 79.97 per cent this year. The results were declared by JAC chairperson Arvind Singh.
Singh attributed the improvement in the result to the hard work and dedication of students and their teachers. “At the end of the day, the credit for better results has to go to the students and their teachers. We trained our evaluators on step marking and it may have contributed to the results,” he said.
Out of the 1,86,524 students enrolled for the test, 1,47,468 passed. Among the successful candidates, 18,130 secured first division marks while 96,724 bagged second division. And at least 32,597 scored less than 50 per cent in the exams. As many as 61,076 boys and 1,05,998 girls appeared for the exams.
Students from Left Wing Extremism-hit Simdega district secured the highest pass percentage of 97.67. Khunti and Hazaribag bagged the second and third positions respectively in terms of pass percentage of students.
The least number of students, only 53.18 per cent, passed from Chatra district.
Girls also bagged the top three positions in the state. Manali Gupta of SS Memorial High School in Patratu emerged the State topper by securing 437 marks out of 500. She scored 90 in History, 92 in Geography and 91 in Economics. Her aggregate was 87.4 per cent. Pramila Kiskoo of Ranchi Women’s College bagged the second position by securing 422 marks out of 500. And Palak Srivastava of Gandhi Inter College, Latehar stood third in the merit list by securing 420 out of 500 marks.
“I dedicate my success to my parents and teachers. I knew that I would get good marks but I never thought that I would top in the state. It feels great,” said Manali, daughter of an electrician.
On May 14 JAC?declared the results for intermediate’s science and commerce streams. The number of students in the Arts stream is more than the number of students in the Commerce and Science combined.
In Science, as many as 94,326 students had registered while 35,052 students had registered for the Commerce stream in JAC. While Science students secured a pass percentage of 57, Commerce students secured a pass percentage of 70.44.
