The pass percentage of students, both regular and private, has been logged at 72.71 per cent, indicating an improvement of 8 per cent in the Class XII results declared by the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) here today.



Attributing the improvement in the pass percentage to the conduct of exams through the semester system, Dr Dalbir Singh Dhillon, PSEB chairman, while declaring the result said the pass percentage was 66.67 per cent in 2009 and 64.69 per cent in 2010.

Of the total 2,67,953 students who appeared in the science, commerce, humanities and vocational streams, 1,94,823 cleared the exams.

Though boys have managed to bag the first position in the commerce and science streams, girls have taken the lion’s share by securing the maximum number of positions in the merit list of 217 students released by the PSEB. Even the pass percentage of girls was 81.89 per cent compared to boys who just managed to secure a pass percentage of 66.21 per cent.

Rohit Rajdev of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Civil Lines, Patiala, has topped in the commerce stream in the state by securing 95 per cent marks.

Nihal Kumar of DAV Public Senior Secondary School, Ropar, has topped in the science stream by securing 94.9 per cent marks. Doing the girls proud is Diksha of Sanatan Dharam Senior Secondary School, Malout (Muktsar), who has secured 94.6 per cent marks in the humanities stream.

In the vocational stream, Amandeep Kaur of GSS, Ajnala (Amritsar), has been ranked 99th in merit list by securing 90.2 per cent marks. In the district-wise merit, Ludhiana has topped with 97 students figuring in the list of 217 students. Hoshiarpur and Amritsar have 24 and 21 students in the list, respectively.

PSEB chairman Dalbir Singh Dhillon said the detailed result, merit list and pass percentage would be available on board’s website www.pseb.ac.in. This is the first time that the result is being declared online.
src.TNS