83.75% clear UP Board High School exams

The year 2012 has brought a bagful of joy for UP Board examinees as the High School results this year registered an astonishing overall pass percentage of 83.75, which is 12.93% more than the overall pass percentage of 70.82 recorded last year.

Once again the fairer sex has stolen a march over their male counterparts as the overall pass percentage of girls is an impressive 88.95 against 79.61 of boys, a sizeable difference of 9.34%.

Barabanki continued to be the cynosure of all eyes as three students of the district jointly shared the top position in the state with an aggregate of 96.50%. What's heartening is the fact that two of the three are girls -- Pooja Yadav of Maharani Laxmi Bai Inter College, Barabanki and Aakanksha Singh of Saraswati Vidya Mandir Inter College, Barabanki.

The third topper, Anna Yadav is a student of BRGP Higher Secondary School, Baraiyya Suratganj, Barabanki.

This year, a total of 35,59,196 students appeared in High School examinations conducted by the UP Board, out of which 19,79,928 were boys and 15,79,268 girls. Among these, 28,39,303 appeared as regular candidates while 1,41,610 appeared privately, said director, Secondary Education, Basudeo Yadav, while announcing the results here on Friday.

Yadav said that district wise, Varanasi recorded the highest overall pass percentage of 92.13 while Lalitpur was the lowest on the table with 70.81%.

Yadav said that after a gap of four years, the overall pass percentage of students has doubled in the backdrop of the fact that it was 40.07 in 2008 while it has climbed to 83.75 in 2012. This is a very healthy trend, he added. This year the Board conducted the High School examinations from March 16 to April 2 at 9,869 examination centres across the state. The evaluation of answer books was undertaken between April 26 to May 10 at 155 centres.

This year a total of 475 jail inmates from different jails across the state appeared in High School examinations, out of which 387 were declared successful. The overall pass percentage of jail inmates recorded a healthy 81.5. Besides, the overall pass percentage of boys this year increased by 13.58 while that of girls went up by 12.03.

Also, as a part of Continued and Comprehensive Evaluation Policy, the High School examinees were allotted 70 marks in the theory papers while the remaining 30 marks were awarded in practical and internal assessment. Under the National Education Policy, a nine point grading system was adopted in theoretical subjects while five-point grading system was adopted in practical subjects.

To check the malpractice of changing answer books in some districts by lumpen elements, the UP Board had distributed numbered answer sheets in 10 districts, including Allahabad, Kaushambi, Hathras, Aligarh, Etah, Azamgarh, Mau, Ballia, Ghazipur and Deoria.

Subject wise, Anthropology and Punjabi recorded 100 percent results as 116 students who appeared in former and 352 in latter were declared successful. On the other hand, Assamese recorded the lowest pass percentage of 14.29 as only one of the seven students who appeared in the examination managed to muster passing marks.