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Rifat Mohidin
Srinagar, May 26
Girls outshined boys in the Class XII examination in Kashmir division, results for which were announced by the J&K Board of School Education (JKBOSE) today as they secured top position in all the four streams viz Science, Commerce, Arts and Home Science.
Five girls shared the first position in the Science stream securing 98 per cent.
Bisma Hassan from Iqbal Memorial Institute, Husna and Madiha Manzoor from Mallinson Girls Higher Secondary School, Misbah Kounain from SRM Welkin School, Sopore, and Nimra Gulzar from Iqbal Memorial, Anantnag scored 490 marks out of 500 to share the first position.
In Commerce faculty, Basirah Ashai of Green Valley Educational Institute, Srinagar, bagged the first position with 96.8 per cent.
Sadaf Khurshid of Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Kothibagh, secured the first position in the faculty of Arts with 97.6 per cent while Lubna Binti Mushtaq of Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Anantnag, finished first in the discipline of Home Science with 95.6 per cent.
A total of 52,751 students had appeared in the examination out of which 29,109 have been declared qualified.
According to the JKBOSE, 6,465 students have secured distinction while 12,290 secured first division.
Meanwhile, 19,461 students will have to reappear in at least one or more subjects even as 4,181 students failed to qualify the exam.
Among the 54 students who shared the first 10 positions in the Science stream, 39 are girls while in the Commerce stream 13 girls and a boy shared the top ten positions. Eleven girls and a boy shared the first ten positions in the Arts faculty. In the faculty of Home Science 13 girls shared the top ten positions.
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