Girls outshine boys

The Pioneer, May 27, 2009
PNS | Bhubaneswar

The Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) of Orissa on Tuesday announced the Class XII results for +2 Arts, Science, Commerce and Vocational Courses. Announcing this result here at the council office, Higher Education Minister Debi Prasad Mishra said for the first time the results of all the streams Science, Arts and Commerce were declared simultaneously by the Council. Chandrima Banerjee of BJB Junior College topped in Arts stream with 539 marks, Rahul Jain of Government Junior College , Bhawanipatna stood first in Commerce stream with 544 marks and Anurag Dash of BJB Junior College topped in Science stream with 571 marks. Girls outshine the boys in all the streams in terms of pass ratio.

ARTS: Out of 1, 40,249 students appeared examination under Arts stream, 97,433 students came out with flying colours. The pass per cent stood at 69.47 per cent. The girls outshined the boys in term of success ratio. While 72.53 per cent girls came with flying colours, 66 per cent boys succeeded in the examination. 76,864 students passed in regular course, 15,603 in ex-regular and 4,966 in private course.

While 6,101 students were placed in 1st division, 24,278 got 2nd division and 64,853 students passed in 3rd division. 2,201 students placed in the compartmental. 34 students found place in the first 20 ranks. Out of them only five are boys and the rest are girls. Ravenshaw college bagged eight out the 34 closely followed by SCS Junior College, Puri with seven positions. BJB Junior College and Krushna PD Women’s College, Dasapalla bagged three positions each.

While 65.22 students passed in SC category, 62.05 per cent student belonging to ST category came out with flying colours. The highest per cent pass ratio was reported from Baragarh with 85.36 per cent pass. The lowest per cent pass ratio was reported from Nawapara district with 50.77 per cent.

SCIENCE: The pass per cent in Science stream stood at 71.67 per cent. 41,439 students came out with flying colour out of 57,812 students appeared the examination. Like the Arts stream, the girls outsmart the boys in Science also. While the pass per cent of girls touched 72.87 per cent, the boys success rate stood at 71.02 per cent. 33,928 students passed in regular stream, 7,511 in ex-regular stream. 12,067 placed in 1st division, 14,669 in 2nd division, 13,687 in 3rd division and 956 in compartmental. 49 students found their names in the first 20 ranks. BJB College students swept the first 20 position..35 students of the college have found their names in the first 20 rank. Six students of Ravenshaw College managed to grab the position in the first 20 rank. However, the boys bagged a number of positions in the first 20 ranks than the girls. Out of the 49 students, 31 are boys and the rest are girls. SC and ST students did well examination with reported pass per cent of 59.80 and 52.53 per cent respectively.

Sambalpur district topped among all the districts with pass per cent of 82.91 per cent. The lowest pass per cent reported from Nawapara with 21.39 per cent.

COMMERCE: 13,844 students came out with flying colours out of 18,565 appeared. The pass per cent stood at 74.78 per cent. While 12,421 passed in regular, 1,266 in ex-regular and 197 students passed in private streams. The female also outshined their counterparts with a reported pass per cent of 84.44 per cent. 72.02 per cent boys passed in this stream. 3,671 students passed in 1st division, 3,811 in 2nd division, 6,314 in 3rd division and 88 placed in compartmental. 38 students have made inroads to the first 20 ranks. Out of the 38, 27 are girls and the rest are boys.

Ravenshaw College students bagged nine positions, BJB College _ seven, GM Junior college _ 4 , Government Junior College , Bhawanipatna and SCS Junior College bagged 2 positions each. Deogarh district topped with pass ratio of 87.85 per cent. The lowest per cent pass ratio was reported from Angul district with 54.31 per cent. While the pass per cent among the SC students stood at 65.08 per cent, the pass per cent among ST is 54.85 per cent.

VOCATIONAL COURSE: The pass per cent in vocational cases stood at 92.19 per cent. 26 students found place in the first 20 ranks. While 15 girls found their place in first 20, 11 boys found their name among the rank holders.

While 1,938 girls passed in the examination, 3,270 boys came out with flying colours. 2,048 placed in 1st division, 2, 692 in 2nd division, 398 in 3rd division and 70 placed in compartmental.