Girls outshine boys in JAC Class XII exams

Ranchi: Girls have outshone boys in all the three streams — science, commerce and arts — in the intermediate examination, results of which were declared by education minister Jagarnath Mahto at the Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) conference room here on Friday evening.
The pass percentage for girl students of science stream was 61.73, compared to 57.72% among boys. In commerce, 71.16% boys cleared the examination compared to 84% girls. A total of 84.2% girl students passed in arts examination, compared to 79.97% of boys.
This year, the overall pass percentage was lowest in the science stream. Only 58. 99% students pursuing science secured pass marks. Whereas, 77.37% students passed in commerce and 82.53% in arts. Overall, 17% students secured first division. Last year, the pass percentage in science, commerce and arts were 57, 70.44 and 79.97, respectively.
District-wise analysis showed that Lohardaga had the highest pass percentage at 95, followed by Ranchi with 83.77% and Koderma with 81.87%. Sahibganj fared the worst with a pass percentage of 43.13 in the commerce stream. Hazaribag came up with best performance in science, while Simdega students excelled in arts.
While releasing the results, Mahto expressed his satisfaction over the improvement in results of intermediate students in recent years, and asked the teachers to compete with one another when it comes to improving the performance of students.
He said, “The outstanding students can set their targets for future. The government will be with them in case of any financial problems.”
Replying to a question, Mahto said that it is a challenge to improve education in government-run schools, which number around 35,000. He, however, added that more efforts were needed to bring them at par with the best private educational institutes.
JAC chairman Arvind Singh said that scrutiny of answer scripts were to start from March 20 but it was postponed owing to the lockdown. The process started from May 28 after getting permission from the disaster management department. He said, “The evaluation was completed by June 25.”
Singh stated that JAC decided to publish the results of all three steams on a single day unlike in the previous years.