Girls outperformed boys in Telangana's intermediate second year examinations of 2015, whose results were declared on Monday.
Girls outperformed boys in Telangana's intermediate second year examinations of 2015, whose results were declared on Monday.
Announcing the results at the office of the Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education, Deputy Chief Minister Kadiam Srihari informed that of 378,973 candidates, a total of 232,742 or 61.41% candidates had passed the second year exams.
The pass percentage for vocational candidates was 59.06.
Girls outperformed boys by securing more than the average pass percentage. While 66.86% of girls in the general and 31.48% of those in the private categories cleared the exams, the boys' pass percentage was 55.91 in the general and 24.71 in the private categories.
150 cases of malpractice in the general and 8 in the vocational category were booked, and the results of 22 candidates in the general and 15 in the vocational category were withheld.
The overall pass percentage in the vocational courses was 59.06% for regular and 34.38% for private candidates. The pass percentages were 66% and 54.85% for girls and boys respectively.
The Deputy CM informed that this year's overall pass percentage was a little higher than that in the previous years. As against a pass percentage of 59.95 in 2013 and 60.14 in 2014, this year's pass percentage was 61.41, he said.
In the general category, about 49.41% candidates secured A Grade or more than 75% marks, 31.46% got B Grade (60-75% marks), 14.39% got C Grade (50-60% marks) and 4.74% secured D Grade (35-50%).
Group-wise, the pass percentages were 71.74 for MPC, 65.94 for BPC, 69.25 for MEC, 45.89 for CEC, 34.06 for HEC, and 69.94 for others.
In the regular category, the Ranga Reddy district was on top with a 75 pass percentage, followed by the Khammam (64%), Hyderabad (64%), Nizamabad (57%), Warangal (57%), Karimnagar (56%), Adilabad (54%), Medak (54%), Mahabubnagar (52%) and Nalgonda (50%) districts.
The Deputy CM informed that special coaching would be imparted at the district headquarters from 4th to 22nd May to the students of government colleges who had failed in the mathematics and science subjects so as to help them clear the supplementary exams.
He said that food and hostel facilities would also be provided to the students.
The second year intermediate advanced supplementary examinations, May/June 2015, will be held from May 25 between 2:30 pm and 5:30 pm, and the last date for the payment of examination fee is May 6. (INN)