Haryana: Rural students outshine urban counterparts in Class 12 exams

Students from rural areas in Haryana have performed better than their urban counterparts, while girls have outshone boys in the Class 12 state education board examinations, results for which were declared today.

The overall pass percentage for the Class 12 Haryana School Education Board stood at 63.84 per cent.

The result was declared jointly by Chairman of the Board, Dr Jagbir Singh and Secretary, Dhirendra Khadgata in a press conference organised at Board office in Bhiwani today.

The students can check their results at website www.bseh.org.in and www.indiaresults.com, Singh said.

He said that overall toppers in the examination are Naveen and Heena from Hisar.

The board chairman said that 2,22,388 students had appeared in the senior secondary examination of which 1,41,973 have passed, 49,163 have got compartments and 31,252 failed.

A total of 1,24,242 boys had appeared in the examination of which 70,936 have passed while 71,037 of the 98,146 girls have passed.

Singh said that the pass percentage of government schools was 63.62 and that of private schools was 64.06.

The result of private students was 47.44 per cent. As many as 19,076 such students had appeared in the examination of which 9,049 have passed.

Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma said here that this time the pass percentage of rural areas was 64.75 whereas it was 62.04 per cent in urban areas in the 12th class examination.

Congratulating the students and the toppers, Sharma said in a statement, "The credit for this goes to Haryana government paying more attention to the school education and the hard work of the teachers and the children."