SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education on Thursday announced results of annual exams of 12th standard with an overall pass percentage of 74 percent.
According to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) girl students have yet again outshined boys.
According to BOSE, the total pass percentage includes 72 percent in boys and 77 percent among girl students.
BOSE said that a total of 93,340 candidates were enrolled for the exams in which 69,385 successfully qualified it.
Stating the overall performance of the candidates, BOSE said that a total of 46,500 male and 46,786 female candidates were enrolled for the examination out of which 74 percent qualified it.
In the exams, a total of 25,435 students have registered distinctions, 33,437 secured first divisions, 10,318 bagged second division and 195 candidates registered third division.
BOSE further said that in the examination, 1034 students couldn’t qualify the exams while 22,921 have been asked to reappear in the exams.
Pertinently, the annual regular examination of class 12th commenced from April 8 in hard zone areas while the examination in the soft zone areas commenced from March 6.
Following the implementation of Uniform Academic Calendar, JKBOSE has classified regions via soft and hard zone areas keeping in view the different weather conditions.
BOSE had said that the annual regular examinations held by the board for classes 10th, 11th and 12th shall be held in the month of March in both the divisions of Union territory of JK and Union Territory of Ladakh excluding hard zones.
The Board however had said that the annual regular examination of hard zone areas of Union territory of JK and Union territory of Ladakh shall be held in the month of April.
The board had further said that the results of annual regular examination of Kashmir division and Jammu division and Union territory of Ladakh including hard zones shall be declared simultaneously in the month of June.