Srinagar: Girls dominated top positions in Class X board examination, the results of which were declared by the J&K BOSE on Saturday.
Kashmir Harvard Educational Institute’s Hayah Javaid Kirmani topped the list along with Mehvish Showkat, scoring 498 out of maximum 500 marks.
The second position was bagged by Maleeha Zahoor of Kashmir Harvard Educational Institute Habak Naseem Bagh along with Madiha Yaseen of R P School Malbagh Srinagar, Mariam Arifa, Farheen, Maliha Zahoor, Aman Aslam by scoring 497 marks. The third position was shared by 18 students, mostly girls, by scoring 496 marks, at a percentage of 99.4 percent.
The Class X results threw up more than one surprise with south Kashmir districts faring better than others and boys outperforming girls in overall results, a marked shift from previous batches.
The overall pass percentage rose to 75.44 percent from 62.94 percent last year, registering nearly 13 percent increase.
Chairperson JKBOSE Prof Veena Pandita said that a total of 55472, 28636 among them boys, had appeared in the examination out of which 41846 students have passed the examination.
Regarding the 75.44 pass percentage, 76.41% are boys and 74.40% girls, a senior officer of the J&KBOSE said.
4430 students have scored grade A1, 5730 (A2), 6442 (B1), 7220 (B2), 8355 (C1), 6071 (c2) while 693 have D grade.
Among the districts, Pulwama stands out in overall pass percentage at 84.50%, followed by Shopian at 83%, Srinagar at 81.90%, Kulgam 80.50%, Anantnag 78%, Baramulla 74.84%, Ganderbal 73.16%, Budgam 72.79%, Kupwara 62.92% and Bandipora 62.26%.
The Government Schools have recorded an impressive pass percentage of 63.71 with 16621 students out of 26089 having qualified the examination from these schools against the pass percentage of 46.70 last year.
As per the result analysis provided by JKBOSE, government schools have shown an inspiring improvement of 17.01% in the results this year as compared to last year while the private schools have shown an improvement of 1.90%.
Among the Government schools, Pulwama has again taken the lead with the government schools of the district recording a pass percentage of 76.94 followed by Kulgam at 74.96%, Shopian at 74.67%, Anantnag at 67.93%, Srinagar 65.52%, Baramulla 64.27%, Budgam 63.38%, Ganderbal 62.62%, Bandipora 58.14% and Kupwara 54.01%.
