MOHALI: In the class X results announced by Punjab School Education Board (PSEB), girls once again stole the show.
The pass percentage for girls was 76.82 as opposed to 73.41% for boys. However, the topper was a boy, Neeraj Saini, from Pathankot. The overall pass percentage of regular and private candidates was 71.59%. There were 85 girls in the merit list of 110 students.
Neeraj, a student of Maharaja Partap Singh Senior Secondary Adarsh Vidyalya, Pathankot, scored 93.69% marks.
Deepshi, a student of Navyug Shishu Mandir High School, Moga, stood second with 93.54% marks. Jandeep Kaur of Baba Biram Dass DAV Public School, Fatehgarh Sahib, stood third with 93.23% marks. Against 65.08% students passing among the regular candidates and 50.35% passing among private candidates last year, pass percentages this time improved to 75.02% and 61.19%.
Out of 2,70,013 regular candidates who appeared in the exam, 2,02,565 passed, while 54,581 of 89,201 private candidates cleared the exam. Board officials, instead of putting the results on the net, made it available in bookstores around 2 pm. They were to be made available on the net at midnight.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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