J&K Board of School Education declares Class 12 results
Girls have outshined boys by bagging maximum of first 10 positions in various streams.
Last year, the pass percentage has been 52 percent.
The first position in Science discipline was bagged by Bisma Hassan of Iqbal Memorial Institute, Husna Ashraf and Madiha Manzoor of Mallinson School, Misbah Sofi of SRM Welkin and Nimra Gulzar of Iqbal Memorial Institute, Islamabad- all securing 490 out of 500 marks.
As many as 52,751 students – 28,652 boys and 24,099 girls - from all the disciplines had appeared in the examination, out of whom 29,109 qualified, with the overall pass percentage of 55 percent. The qualifying students include 15,755 boys and 13,354 girls, as per official sources.
The examination was held in March-April earlier this year after it was postponed from October session last year due to devastating September floods which caused a massive breakdown of the educational set-up in the valley.
(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)
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