Tuesday,
June 25, 2002, Chandigarh, India
|
 |
| M A I
N N E W S |
Girls bag top 3 Punjab matric
slots
Our Correspondent
From left: Ravneet Kaur (Ist), Gurpreet Kaur (2nd), Sandeep Kaur and Rohini Gupta (3rd) |
SAS Nagar, June 24
Girls secured the top three positions in the matriculation examination of the Punjab School Education Board, the results of which were declared here today. The first position was bagged by Ravneet Kaur of Doaba Public Senior Secondary School, Parowal, Hoshiarpur, by securing 614 marks out of 650. Gurpreet Kaur of Guru Nanak National Public School, Mahilpur, was placed second by securing 606 marks. There was a tie for the third position between Rohini Gupta of Holy Heart High School, Amritsar, and Sandeep Kaur of Nankana Sahib Public School, Qila Raipur, Ludhiana. Both secured 603 marks each. Stating this, Mr Jagjit Singh Sidhu, Secretary of the board, told mediapersons that 2,84,075 students appeared as regular candidates for the examination this year, of which 1,67,877 had been declared as pass. In addition to this, 81,812 students gave the examination as private candidates, of whom 31,614 cleared it. The pass percentage in the case of regular candidates this year is 59.09. Last year, the percentage was 49.17. In the case of students who appeared in the examination as private candidates, the pass percentage this year is 38.64. Last year, it was 33.53. The Secretary said there had been a qualitative improvement in the preparation of results this year. He said the number of RL cases had come down to 1,300 this year from 5,000 last year. Among the others placed in the top 10 of the merit list are (marks given in brackets): Deepika Sachdeva, Bada Ram Bansal Memorial Senior Secondary School, Kotkapura, (601); Anjana Shukla, Shiv Devi Girls High School, Jalandhar, (600); Dipti Gupta, (Modern Nabha Public Senior Secondary School, Nabha, (600); Harkaran Singh, Ajit
Vidyalya Senior Secondary School, Amritsar, (600); Upinderjit Kaur, Guru Nanak National Public School, Mahiplur, (596); Simranjeet, Vivekanand High School, Pathankot, (595); Parneet Kaur, Government Senior Secondary School, Tehli Chak, Hoshiarpur, (595); Tarun Kumar, Jalandhar Model School, Jalandhar, (595); Richa Aggarwal, Holy Heart High School, Amritsar, (595); Harmeet Singh, Sanatan Dharam Senior Secondary School, Malout, (595); Sandeep Saini, SS DAV High School, Awankha Dinanagar, Gurdaspur, (594); Sumanjit Kaur, Doaba Public Senior Secondary School, Parowal, Hoshiarpur, (594); Rimpal, Shiv Devi Girls High School, Jalandhar, (594); Gitika Goyal, Shahi Jada Nand Girls High School, Amritsar, (594); Alka Rani, SD Girls Senior Secondary School, Moga, (594); Virpal Kaur, Government Girls Senior Secondary School, Badhni Kalan, Moga, (594); Deeprashmi, Sarvhitakari Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Dhura, Sangrur, (593); Amaninder Jot Kaur, SS DAV High School, Awankha Dinanagar, Gurdaspur, (592); Simranjot Singh, Vivekanand High School, Pathankot, (592); Geetu, Shiv Devi Girls High School, Jalandhar, (592); and Damanjit Singh, Dehradun Public High School, Patiala, (592).
|
