Srinagar: Over 61 per cent students on Thursday cleared the Class XII examinations, with girls once again outshining the boys. The top ten positions in four streams—Science, Commerce, Arts and Home Science—has been shared by 88 students.
A total of 55163 students wrote examination conducted by the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education in November last year and among them, 25832 were girls and 29331 males. A total of 16612 (64.31%) fairer gender students were declared successful along with 17281 males (58.92%), an official of the JKBOSE. In all 61.44 students passed the examination.
In science stream, 41 students figured in the merit list of top 10 positions and first position was bagged by Mustashimi Rafiqi of Burn Hall Sonwar Srinagar with 494 marks (98.8%). Faheem Rashid, another student of Burn Hall School, got second position with 98.2% marks while Sabiya Syeed, a student of SRM Wilkin Sopore got third position with 98% marks.
In Commerce stream, 11 students shared first position with 485 (97%) marks and they include Arfeen Nazir of Islamia Higher Secondary School Rajouri Kadal, Farisa Abdul Rahid, Mehreen Hilal, both from Green Valley Educational Institute, Sehrish Nafiz, Tabish Noor, Zaira Bashir, all from Nawa kadal Srinagar and Arafat Bakhtoo of Kashmir Harvard Institute Habak Naseembagh Srinagar.
Green Valley’s Seeba Malik with 96.6% got second position while three students with 95.8% marks secured third position and they include Nisha Jan of government girls higher secondary Anantnag. Shifa Hanief Sheikh of Govt Hr.Sec Amira kadal and Tabish Qadir of Govt. (Girls) Hr. Sec School Budgam.
In Home Science, Iqra Rashid of Govt Girls Hr Sec School Kothibagh got first position with 480 marks (96%) while second position was bagged by Aazima Noorie of Govt(Girls) Hr Sec school Anantnag with93% while Fiza Jan of Govt(Girls) Hr Sec school Anantnag figured in the merit list at 3rd slot with 443 marks (88.6%).
In faculty of Arts, Durhanah Massodi of Govt(Girls) Hr Sec school Baramulla got first position with 487 marks (97.4%), Munazah Shafi of Govt Girls Hr Sec School Kothibagh secured send position (96.8%) while Madeeha Khan of Green Valley Educational Institute Srinagar got third position with 96.6% marks.
