PSEB 10th result 2018: Ludhiana's Gurpreet Singh tops; steps to check grade

Punjab Board students can check their PSEB class 10 result on pseb.ac.in. Here are the steps to check and download the score

Ludhiana's Gurpreet Singh topped the PSEB Class 10 examination 2018 with 98 per cent marks. The results were declared by the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) on Tuesday on its official website pseb.ac.in.

This year, 59.57 per cent students cleared the PSEB Class 10 examination, an increase of two percentage points from last year’s pass percentage, according to media reports.

The second position was bagged by Jasmeen Kaur of Shishu Model High School in Kapurthala with 97.85 per cent marks. Puneet Kaur, a student of Guru Nanak Public Senior Secondary School in Fatehgarh Sahib, secured the third spot with 97.69 per cent marks.

Nearly every second boy who appeared for the Class 10 examination, conducted by the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) this year, flunked the exam, while the girls fared much better with 69.13 per cent of them clearing it. According to the results declared today, of the 2,11,521 boys who appeared for the exam, only 1,10,655 could manage to pass, registering a pass percentage of 52.31. Of the 1,56,774 girls who took the exam, 1,08,380 cleared it. However, the overall pass percentage of the class 10 exam was recorded at 59.47. In 2016 and 2017, the overall pass percentage was 72.25 and 57.50 respectively. A total of 3,68,295 students had appeared for the class 10 exams this year, a PSEB spokesperson said.

Students can check their results by following the steps given below:

Step 1: Visit the official website of the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) - http://pseb.ac.in/ or you can also check other third-party websites to check your results such as http://www.examresults.net/punjab/.

Step 2: At the top navigation bar of the homepage, click on the ‘Results’ tab. A new webpage will appear.

Step 3: Click on 'PSEB Class 10 Matriculation Result 2018'

Step 4: Enter your name, roll number, mobile number, and e-mail address and select the stream in the fields provided and then select the ‘Go’ button to find your results.

Step 5: Download your result and take a print out for further reference.

Over 450,000 students appeared for the exam, held between March 12 and March 31.

The board had announced class 12 results on April 24, 2018. Accoridng to reports, the pass percentage for the result was 65.97 per cent. 

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Government schools fared poorly as the pass percentage in these schools was recorded at 57.85. Of 1,88,175 students of these schools, 1,08,855 students managed to clear the exam.

Schools in urban areas with 63.85 pass percentage, fared a tad better than those in rural areas which registered 61.22 pass percentage. However, the pass percentage of Adarsh and affiliated schools was highest at 72.66.

Mansa district registered the highest pass percentage at 73.76, followed by Muktsar at 72.39 per cent and Bathinda 70.12 per cent, officials said.

The performance of border districts was poor with Tarn Taran witnessing lowest pass percentage at 33.34, followed by Ferozepur and Pathankot at 52.33 percent and 52.92 percent respectively.