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PSEB 10th results 2023: Girls outperform boys, take top three positions
Girls outperformed boys and took the top three spots in the Class 10 results announced by the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB).
Girls outshined boys and bagged the top three positions in the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) Class 10 examination results declared at the board head office on Friday.
Gagandeep Kaur from Sant Mohan Das Memorial Senior Secondary School, Kot Sukhia , Faridkot topped the stated scoring at 100% -650 out of 650- marks. Navjot from the same school stood second scoring 648 out of 650 marks. Harmandeep Kaur from Government High school, Mandhali, Mansa stood third in the state by scoring 646 out of 650 marks.
Pathankot topped the districts in terms of pass percentage with 99.19, while Kapurthala stood second with 99.2% and Amritsar placed 3rd with a pass percentage of 98.97%. Barnala came last in the list of 23 districts with a pass percentage of 95.96%.
Girls clinched top 10 positions in the state, while Divyanshu Kumar, of Himgiri Senior Secondary School Mundian Kalan in Ludhiana stood 11th in the merit list and topped among boys in the state. A total of 304 students figured in the merit list.
Punjabi proved to be Achilles' heel:
While the government is making a concerted effort to promote mother tongue in the state, Punjabi proved to be Achilles' heels for students appearing for the class 10 exams as 2265 students failed in Punjabi subject out of the 281267 candidates appeared for the exams. Whereas 2176 students flunked English subjects, 89 students less than those failed in the Punjab exam.
Only 1041 students failed to clear the exam in the national language Hindi. While merely 750 students from across the states failed in mathematics exams, considered to be the toughest. When asked, the board officials said that the results were just out and all these factors will be looked into.
Result of Government better than private:
Vice-chairman of the PSEB Varinder Bhatia said that the overall pass percentage was 97.54%, while the pass percentage of government schools was at 97.76%, whereas the pass percentage of private schools was 97%. Similarly, schools in rural areas have done better as compared to schools in urban areas with a pass percentage of 97.94 and 96.77 respectively. Out of the total number of 2,81327 candidates appearing for class 10 exams, only 653 students failed to make it to the next class while 6171 students will have to re-appear and the results of 103 students have been withheld.
40k dip in the number of students:
The academic year 2022-23 witnessed a dip of 39,836 students appearing for exams. While 311,545 students had appeared in the academic year 2022, a total of 2,81,327 students appeared in the exams held in March earlier this year. Janak Raj Meharok, Controller of Examinations attributed the dip in the number of students appearing for the exams to multiple factors. “It is a matter of study by the state council of education and training,” said Meharok.
COVID cleared the backlog:
On the other hand, board officials requesting anonymity said that an unprecedented high number of pass percentage during the COVID period led to the clearing of the backlog. “In academic year 2019- 20 the pass percentage was 85.56 %, while during the COVID period of 2020-21 and 2021- 22 the pass percentage soared to 99.93 and 99.06 %, nearly 14% higher than 2019-20, which cleared the backlog of students leading to a dip in the number of candidate appearing in academic session of 2022-23,” said the education department official.
