An impressive 89.4% clear UP Board class XII exams

ALLAHABAD: The UP Board intermediate results this year are beyond expectations with an overall pass percentage of 89.4. Last year the overall pass percentage was 80.14.Once again, girls have surpassed boys with an overall pass percentage of 95.52 against 84.73 of the latter, a difference of 10.79%. This year, 26,07,575 students appeared in the intermediate examinations - 14,77,679 boys and 11,29,896 girls. Of these, 21,98,980 appeared as regular candidates while 163051 appeared as private, said director, secondary education, Basudeo Yadav while announcing the results on Tuesday. Abhilasha Yagya Saini and Apoorva Verma of Rani Laxmi Bai Memorial Inter College, Barabanki, have topped the overall merit list of candidates with 96.2% marks, followed by Ashutosh Singh of SKDA Inter College, Rajajipuram, Lucknow with 94.2% marks.Yadav said district-wise Bhadohi recorded the highest overall pass percentage of 96.12 while Mathura stood lowest in the table with 67.05%.He added that after eight years the overall pass percentage has registered such a steep rise. It was in 2004, when the overall pass percentage was 89.5% against 70.51% in 2003.UP Board intermediate exams were held from March 16 to April 20 at 9,182 centres across the state. The evaluation of answer books was done between April 26 and May 10 at 103 centres.Out of 440 jail inmates who appeared in the intermediate examinations, 401 have been declared successful. The overall pass percentage of jail inmates recorded a healthy 87.53%.Besides the overall pass percentage of boys this year has increased by 14.2% while that of girls has risen by 4.76%.The intermediate examinees appeared in two papers of both Hindi and mathematics instead of three till last year. There were additional 847 exam centres this year.To check copying, UP Board had distributed numbered answer sheets in every district while paper seal was used to seal the bundle of answer books.Director, secondary education, Basudeo Yadav said that in accordance with the recommendations of National Education Policy of introducing Common Course Curriculum, UP Board has decided to adopt a common course curriculum in physics, chemistry, biology and mathemtics from 2012-13 academic session.