Reforms spur II PUC Results - Udupi First, DK Second
 
Bangalore, May 7 (DHNS ):  The performance of students who took March 2010 second pre-university examination has witnessed an 11 per cent jump. The pass percentage of fresh candidates this year stood at 61.94 against 50.88 last year. 
 
Announcing the results on Thursday, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Vishweshwara Hegde Kageri attributed the marked improvement in PUC results to several reforms undertaken by the government. “We have recruited 2,500 PU teachers via KPSC, given teachers training and implemented attendance norms strictly. I would like to think that these reforms have contributed to the improvement in results,” he said.

The overall pass percentage, including that of repeaters and private candidates, stood at 49.27, an improvement from last year’s 43.1. Of a total 4,26,165 fresh candidates, 2,56,108 passed. And out of 2,24,035 repeaters and private candidates, 54,842 cleared the examination.

Girls were on top once again this year with a pass percentage of 67.1 as compared to 53.7  among boys.  Fresh urban students faired marginally better than their rural counterparts with a pass percentage of 62.09 as compared to 61.52.  The subject-wise pass percentages stood at 53.24 for arts combinations, 71.41 for commerce combinations and 66.83  for science combinations.

Toppers’ feat

The toppers this year secured a total of 588 out of 600 marks. There was a topper each from science and commerce, with both securing 98 per cent. The highest total in arts was 563. A total of 539 students secured the maximum 100 marks in chemistry and 513 students secured full marks in mathematics.

In the commerce stream, 336 students secured full marks in business studies, while 366 students and 367 students secured maximum score in accounts and statistics. Of all the pre-university colleges in the State, the unaided ones secured a pass percentage of 65.20, aided colleges followed next with a pass percentage of 62.02 and government colleges stood a poor third with a pass percentage of 56.36.

Coastal districts occupy top slot

The district-wise toppers in the second PU results announced on Thursday were predictable. Mirroring the achievement last year, Udupi (89.43 per cent), Dakshina Kannada (88.93) and Uttara Kannada (77.27) secured the top three positions respectively. 

Udupi clinched the first position with a marked increase of nine per cent in its total percentage-80.62 per cent last year to 89.43 per cent, this year. In comparison, the newly formed district Yadgiri (33.47), Koppal (41.70) and Raichur (43.29) figured in the bottom of the list. Kodagu (74.66) stood at fourth position, which was an increase by three positions from last year.

In fact, Koppal (41.70) which was in 27th position in 2009 slipped even further by three positions, this year.  One of the districts which showed remarkable improvement was Chamrajnagar (71.15), which climbed from the 12th position to 5th position this year.

Even Bangalore Rural (65.47) and Chikkaballapur (63.48), which were in 16th and 19th positions last year, rose to 10th and 13th ranks, respectively.  Disappointing, Bangalore South (70.22) and North (68.28) dropped by three positions each and stand in seventh and ninth positions.

Disabled students

Among the visually and physically challenged students, 296 and 2144 students appeared for the examinations, respectively. Out of this, 144 students (48.65 per cent) from visually challenged category cleared the exams, while 731 students (34.10 per cent) from orthopaedically challenged category passed the exams.

Girls outperform boys again

Girls once again out-performed the boys in this year’s second pre-university examinations, reports DHNS from Banglaore. While the pass percentage among fresh candidates for girls stood at 67.01 percent, the pass percentage among boys was only 56.43 percent.

A total of 2,13,379 girls and 2,00,117 boys appeared for the second PUC examinations in march as fresh candidates. Amongst fresh candidates 1,42,978 girls passed and 113130 boys passed.

Besides fresh candidates, a total of 74,461 girls and 1,43,118 boys appeared as repeaters and private candidates. Even here, girls performed better with a pass percentage of 29.54 as opposed to a pass percentage among boys of 22.68 in the repeaters category, and in the private category, girls once again had a superior pass percentage of 32.36 as against 22.68 of boys. The overall pass percentage stood at 57.45 for girls and 42.42 for boys.