Girls rule the roost in Orissa annual Plus Two exams

Tanmay Kumar Patra of Upendra Nath College, Soro, notched up the first spot in the top 20 merit list in Science stream securing an aggregate of 555 marks in the annual Plus Two examinations-2011, results of which were declared by the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) here on Monday.
While Nayana Baral of SCS Junior College, Puri topped in the Arts stream securing 522 marks and Minish Agrawala of MPC Junior College, Baripada topped in Commerce stream with 537 marks.
Chinmayee Mohant of Jhumpura Government Vocational Junior College topped in Vocational stream securing aggregate 566 marks.
Barring the Arts stream where the boys overtook the girls in the top 20 ranking, the girl students outshone the boys in the top twenty in Commerce and Vocational streams.
As many as 26 girl students are in the bracketed 30 students in the 20 merit list in Arts, in Commerce, 25 and 23 girl's students in vocational stream were topper from among the each of the 38 top 20 list.
The results of the examinations were released by higher education minister Badri Narayan Patra at the head office here at 10 am.
The results were also simultaneously declared in three other zonal offices at Baripada, Berhampur, Sambalpur and at the Ravensaw Junior College at Cuttack.
The examination was held in March and April, 2011 and the results were published in a record time of 42 days.
This time also girls outshone boys in all the streams.
While 74.03 per cent girls came out successful in Science stream against 73.18 per cent of boys, 71 .77 per cent girls passed in Arts against 64.27 percent boys and 77.53 per cent girls passed against the 65.23 per cent of boys in Commerce stream.
This year the state average in the pass rate is 69.10 per cent in Science, Arts and Commerce.
With 171,118 students came out successful from among the 246,153 candidates appeared the examination.
While 41,359 students in Science passed out of the total 56,280 appeared, 12,773 students passed with first division, 15,566 in second division and 12,016 in 3rd Division.
Dhenkanal district recorded the highest pass percentage of 84.93 percent, lowest percentage of 47.82 per cent students passed in Boudh district in the science stream.
In Arts stream while 159,866 students appeared the examination, 109,230 students came out successful.
As many as 11,183 students passed in first division while 34,446 in second division and 60,826 in third division.
In Arts stream, Malkangiri earned the distinction of being the no-1 district as far as highest pass rate is concerned.
The pass rate of the district in Arts is 89.68 per cent while Rayagada recorded the lowest pass percentage of 52.44 per cent.
Similarly in Commerce stream 15, 553 students passed from the 22,760 candidates appearing the examination with 3,577 passed in first division, 3,961 in second division and 7,817 in third division.
In Vocational stream, 4,481 candidates out of 6,356 passed with 1,609 in first division, 2,400 in second division and 682 in third division.