Girls shine again in Ajmer region

AJMER:

Girls

once again outperformed boys in the

Ajmer

region in

CBSE Class X results

, which were announced on Monday. The girls logged a pass

percentage

of 97.34% compared to 94.91% for boys. Overall, the figure stood at 95.89%, which is 3% higher than last year, said a CBSE official.

In Ajmer region

, Arihant Jha from Jamnagar in Gujarat and Taru Jain from Jaipur shared the first rank with 499 marks. “I never expected to score 100 in four subjects. This success has brought me closer to my dream of pursuing honours in economics from Delhi University,” said Jain, a student of St Angela Sophia School in Jaipur.

As per the merit list released by CBSE, six students made it into the top three ranks in Rajasthan. Jaipur’s Shreya Khandal of Maheshwari Girls Public School stood second. She scored 496 out of 500 marks.

The third sport was shared by four students—Shruti Sharma of St Angela Sophia Sr Sec School, Jaipur, Mehul Kochar of Shri Jain Public School in Bikaner, Rajat Choudhary of Tagore International School, Bhadra in Hanumangarh and Riya Choudhary of

Bakhshi’s Springdales Sr Sec School, Borkhera, Kota. They all scored 495 marks as per the merit list released by the CBSE.

Giving details, Sanjeev Das of CBSE, Ajmer region, said the girls’ pass percentage is higher than the boys. From across the country, students from Thiruvananthapuram fared the best with a pass percentage of 99.85%, followed by Chennai (99%) and Ajmer (95.89%).

Students from 2,545 schools of Ajmer region which includes Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Dadra and Nagar Haveli had registered for exams. From a total of 1,94,826 students who had registered, 1,94,303 appeared for the exam. Of these, 1,84,183 students passed the exams. He said that 7,126 students who had failed can reappear for the exam after a month.

Kendriya Vidyalayas topped in the exam with a pass percentage of 99.3%, followed by Jawahar Navodaya schools at 98.72%. Private schools ranked third with 94.95% and government schools stood at 93.87%.


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