Govt students shine in Class 12 J&K board exam

OUT OF THE 95 STUDENTS WHO HAVE GRABBED TOP 10 POSITIONS, 49 ARE FROM GOVT SCHOOLS

SRINAGAR: The students of government schools, predominantly girls, have bagged more than half of the top 10 positions, including the topmost, in Science and Arts streams, in the class 12 Jammu and Kashmir board exam results announced on Monday.

Out of 69,969 students who appeared in the Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education (JKBOSE) higher secondary part-two examination in October 2018, 54% girls and 50% boys have passed, with overall pass percentage of 52% (61% in 2017). Out of the 95 students (arts, science, commerce and home science) who have grabbed the top 10 positions, 49 are governmentschoolers.

23 out of 24 Arts students in the top 10 are girls; 18 out of those 24 are from government schools.

The students of governmentrun educational institutions have also walked away with first five positions, scoring between 98% and 98.6% marks. Hadia Noor of government girls higher secondary school, Kothibagh has stood first in Arts with 493 out of 500 marks. In Science, of the 47 students in the top 10, 29 are girls. As many as 14 students, boys and girls, are from government schools. The students of government-run schools have achieved the first, third, fourth and fifth ranks, scoring between 98% and 98.6% marks. Wafeeqa Qazi, a girl of government girls higher secondary school, Amira Kadal has scored the highest (493/500).

In Commerce, with 97.8 % marks, the topper is Zakia Bint Zia, a girl of Green Valley private higher secondary school. The students of government schools have bagged the second, third, sixth and seventh ranks, scoring between 97.6% and 96.2% marks.

All the 11 top 10 position-holders in the Home Science stream are girls from government schools. The advisor to the governor, Khurshid Ahmad Ganai, secretary school education, AK Sahu and director school education Kashmir, GN Itoo felicitated the students of government schools for their “extraordinary performance” and hailed the teachers for their “earnest efforts in impressively improving the standards of education in the government institutions”, said a government spokesperson.