Daijiworld Media Network – Bengaluru
Bengaluru, Apr 21: The much-awaited second PU results were announced on Friday April 21 with girls outshining the boys.
A total of 74.67 per cent students have passed the board exams as per the official statement.
Dakshina Kannada (DK) emerged the topper with a pass percentage of 95.33% while Udupi followed with 95.24%. Kodagu distrct secured the third spot with 90.55% pass percentage. Uttara Kannada bagged the fourth place. Yadgir has achieved the least results.
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From L to R: Sathwik Padmanabha Bhat, Smaya Sadananda Maben, Jesvita Dias and Neha J Rao
Four students from Udupi topped science stream. Sathwik Padmanabha Bhat of MGM College secured the second rank with 595 marks and Jesvita Dias of Poorna Prajna College secured second rank with 595 marks. Neha J Rao of Venkataramana College Kundapur got the third rank with 594 marks and Smaya Sadananda Maben of Jnana Sudha College, Karkala secured the third rank with 594 marks.
The gender wise results showed that 80.25 per cent of girls who took the exam passed while 69.05 per cent of boys managed to crack the board exams.
As many as 3,49,901 boys had appeared for the exams held in March and 2,41,607 have managed to pass. While, among the 3,52,166 girls who took the exams, 2,82,602 have passed.
In the arts stream, Tabassum Sheik has emerged topper in the state by scoring 593 marks out of 600. She is a student of NMKRV College in Jayanagar in Bengaluru.
In the Commerce section, Ananya, a student from Moodbidri Alva's College is the topper. She has scored 600 out of 600 marks.
In science stream Vijnana Koushik has emerged as a topper by scoring 596 marks out of 600.
Among the 7,02,067 students who appeared for the examinations, 5,24,209 have passed.
As many as 23,754 students remained absent for all papers.
As per the official release, 20 students with autism, eight with cerebral palsy, 170 with hearing impairment, 242 with learning disability, 571 with locomotor impairment, 90 with mental retardation, 89 with multiple disability, 11 with speech impairment and 429 with visual impairment have passed the board exams.
With inputs from IANS