PSEB CLASS 10: RUPNAGAR’S SHRUTI TOPPER
1.9 lakh of 3.3 lakh students who appeared in exam get through; 37,963 students score above 80%; Ludhiana district has the maximum students in merit list, board chairman says this result is better than last year’s since no grace marks were given this time
SAS NAGAR : Shruti Vohra, a student of DAV Public Senior Secondary School, Rupnagar, topped the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) Class-10 examination with 98.7% marks. The results were declared on Monday.
The second and third positions were bagged by Amit Yadav and and Simmi Kumari of Sai Public Senior Secondary School, Ludhiana, with 98.62% and 98.31% marks.
In the sports category, Amandeep Verma of BCM Senior Secondary School, Ludhiana, was first with 99.08% marks. Jyoti Panwar (98.62%), from the same school, bagged the second position.
SAS NAGAR: Shruti Vohra, a student of DAV Public Senior Secondary School, Rupnagar, topped the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) Class-10 examination with 98.7% marks.
The results were declared on Monday. The second and third positions were bagged by Amit Yadav and and Simmi Kumari of Sai Public Senior Secondary School, Ludhiana, with 98.62% and 98.31% marks.
In the sports category, Amandeep Verma of BCM Senior Secondary School, Ludhiana, was first with 99.08% marks.
Jyoti Panwar (98.62%), from the same school, bagged the second position and Nancy (98.31%) of Play Ways Senior Secondary School, Patiala, came third. In the sports category, students get 15 marks for playing at the state level, and 25 for competing at the national level.
OVERALL PASS % SLIPS TO 57.5%
The overall pass percentage this year slipped to 57.5%, against last year’s 72.2%. With the pass percentage of 63.9%, girls in the state are ahead of boys, whose pass percentage is 52.3%.
Pass percentage without grace marks in 2016 was 53.7% and in 2015 was 48.2%. This time, schools affiliated with PSEB have the highest pass percentage, 70.8%, followed by adarsh schools at 57.40% and associated schools at 55.76%. Of the 3,30,437 candidates who appeared in the examination this time, 1,90,001 got through. As many as 37,963 students scored above 80%. In 2015, the pass percentage was 68.61%, with grace marks. “The overall percentage in comparison to last year appears to have dipped, but it is not the case,” the PSEB chairperson said.
RESULT BETTER THIS TIME: PSEB CHIEF
He said this time the pass percentage is actually 4% more than 2016 and 9% more than 2015 as no grace marks were granted. The marks are the outcome of the actual performance of the students minus the grace marks, he said. The chairman further said percentage in Class 10 examinations was “generally low” because students “take board exams for the first time”.
“The Punjab education department and the school education board are collectively putting in efforts to improve results and the standard of education in schools,” Dhol said, adding that they are just the body that conducts the examination. The Punjab education department does the analysis and after that works upon the areas for improvement, he said.
Gurdaspur district topped the state with an overall pass percentage of 86.97 %, while Sangrur got the lowest rank at 42.85%. Government schools have a pass percentage of 52.80 %.
The urban schools performed marginally better than rural schools — pass percentage of urban students is 57.93% while that of rural students is 57.28%.
Ludhiana produced the maximum students in the merit list, 113, and the lowest number of students in the merit list came from Fazilka and SAS Nagar.
The board will also give away cash prizes to toppers in the academic and sports category — ₹1 lakh for the first position, ₹75,000 for the second, and ₹50,000 for the third. All six toppers will be awarded.