Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Girls rule the roost in Arts & Commerce, but boys outshine them in Science

GUWAHATI, May 26: While girls have outsmarted boys in the Arts and Commerce streams in the Higher Secondary final examinations, 2009, boys seem to have yet again registered a strong claim that science is a male domain by occupying most of the top slots in the Science stream result sheets that were declared today.

According to the HS results declared today by the Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC), 23 of the 29 students who occupied the top ten positions in the Arts stream are girls. The first position went to Chayanika Baruah of Kakojan College, Jorhat. In the Commerce stream, 16 girls are among the 23 students who secured the top ten slots. The first, second and third slots have been occupied by girls of Gauhati Commerce College that has as many as 11 position holders. The three girls are Binisha Agarwalla, Aruna Bawri and Kabita Kalita. In the Science stream, as many as 12 of the 18 students who occupied the first ten positions are boys. The first position went to Manoj Swargiary (an institutional private candidate from Pathsala), the second position went jointly to Kaushik Roy of Shishu Pathsala HS School, Dhubri and Prabal Barman of Cotton College, Guwahati and the third position to Jay Prakash Das of Salt Brook Academy, Dibrugarh.

In the Arts stream, of the 1,40,419 candidates who took the examination, 95,473 came out successful, the pass percentage being 67.99 against 65.33 last year. While 6,323 students secured first division, 17,179 secured second division and 72,971 secured third division.

In the Commerce stream, of the 11,682 candidates who took the examination, 8,424 came out successful, the pass percentage being 72.11 against 69.96 last year. While 1,338 students secured first division, 2,541 secured second division and 4,545 got third division.

In the Science stream, of the 12,531 students who took the examination, 10,052 came out successful, the pass percentage being 80.23. While 3,030 students secured first division, 5,396 secured second division and 1,627 secured third division. THE SENTINEL

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