GUWAHATI: Leaving out last year's inflated pass percentage of over 99 per cent due to formula-based evaluation amid Covid situation, the Assam higher secondary education council (AHSEC) recorded its best results in the last 10 years in Science and Arts streams. While the success rate in Science touched 92.19 per cent this year, the corresponding figure in Arts was recorded to be 83.48 per cent. The results were declared at 9am on Monday.
Except for the previous year's unusual high passing percentage of 99.57 per cent, Commerce students, too, produced impressive results with 87.26 pass percentage. In Vocational stream, the pass percentage was recorded to be 89.30 per cent.
Among the regular candidates, girls outshone the boys in all four streams. In Science, the girls pass percentage was 93.20 per cent, whereas that of the boys stood at 90.65.
In Commerce, the pass percentage of girls and boys were recorded to be 89.79 and 84.66 per cent, respectively.
The success rate of girls in Arts was 85.19 per cent against 81.44 per cent of the boys. In the Vocational stream, 93.81 per cent girls were declared passed against 87.65 per cent boys.
Dhritiraj Bastav Kalita of Darrang's Deomornoi Higher Secondary School is the state topper in Science who secured 491 marks out of 500.
Sadhana Devi of Kamrupa Girls' Senior Secondary School, Kamrup and Cherry Gohain of Womens College, Tinsukia are joint toppers in Arts. Both of them scored 487 aggregate marks out of 500.
In Commerce, Sagar Agarwal topped from Vivekananda Senior Secondary School in Cachar. Sagar scored 482 aggregate marks out of 500.
