City boy tops Inter '05

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">ALLAHABAD: Prateek Srivastava of Lucknow Public Inter College, Lucknow and Neha Shukla of Pt RPMIC Yashoda Nagar, Kanpur shared the top spot in Intermediate examinations-2005 of UP Board with overall 91 per cent marks. Prateek''s schoolmate Mayank Kumar Singh was second on the merit list with 90 per cent while Ravi Gupta of Pt RPMIC, Kanpur and Shubham Agrawal of BNSDSNIC, Kanpur came joint third with 89.40 per cent. Kanpur students stole the march over others on the 21-rank merit list. Out of 82 rank holders, 57 were from Kanpur. And out of these 57, 30 belonged to BNSDSNIC Kanpur alone. Last year 29 rank-holders were from this college only.<br /><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">Following were the other top ten rankers</span>:<br /><br />4. Ajeet Singh Yadav (LPIC), Priyanka Ahirwar (Pt RPMIC) 89.20%; 5. Vishal Mishra (BNSDSNIC, Kanpur), Ritesh Jaiswal (CRTSVMICSKS, Maharajganj) 88.80 %; 6. Vikas Srivastava (SVMIC, Kanpur) 88.60 %; 7. Sunny Gupta of (S Gandhi Inter College, Orai-Jalaun) 88.20 %; 8. Sudhanshu Shukla (BNSDSNIC, Kanpur) 88%; 9. Saurabh Mishra, Sudhanshu Yadav, Syed Mohd Riza Husain Naqvi BNSDSNIC, Kanpur), Arunima Pathak (KUBV Inter College, Kanpur) and Rohit Ranjan Sahu Saraswati (VM Inter College Hamirpur) 87.90%; 10. Ashish Mishra and Yogesh Singh (BNSDSNIC Kanpur) 87.60 %.<br />In the vocational category, Chandra Prabha of Government Girls Inter College Moudaha, Hamirpur topped the merit list with 85.70 per cent marks while Neha Singh of Bapu Inter College Sadat, Ghazipur with 84.50 per cent and Ritu Tripathi of Government Girls Inter College Moudaha Hamirpur with 83.60 per cent ended with second and third positions respectively. <br /><br />Announcing the results, Sanjay Mohan, director education (secondary), and chairman Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad said that the overall pass percentage of candidates was at 89.38, which was 0.12 per cent less than the previous year. A total of 1060271 candidates including 970588 regular and 89683 private candidates appeared in the examinations. As far as overall result was concerned, girls outscored boys by 7.28 per cent with 93.65 pass percentage. The same was 86.37 for the boys. <br /></div> </div>