GUWAHATI : Shekhar Kumar Yadav (460 marks) of Salt Brook Academy, Dibrugarh, Kashmiri Das (446 marks) of Cotton College, Guwahati and Shalaka Jain (439 marks) of Gauhati Commerce College secured the top position in the Science, Arts and Commerce streams respectively of the Higher Secondary Examination-2011 conducted by the Assam Higher Secondary Education Council, the results of which were announced today.
All the three streams recorded an impressive pass percentage, marking a noticeable increase over that of last year. The pass percentage for the Science, Arts and Commerce streams stood at 87.32, 73.14 and 79.81 respectively.
Girl students fared much better than boy students in Science and Commerce streams, while boys did marginally better in the Arts stream.
In the Arts stream, 21 candidates found place in the list of top ten, with Anundaram Borooah Academy, Bajali, having five toppers, followed by Cotton College and Salt Brook sharing three rank-holders each.
The second and third positions were bagged by Sabah Qamri (445 marks), an institutional private candidate from Sorbhog, and Urvashi Chetia (444 marks) of Krishna Guru Mahavidyalaya, Sarthebari, respectively.
In the Science stream — where 18 candidates shared the top ten ranks — Bishal Saha (458 marks) of Cotton College and Kunja Kanan Nath of Salt Brook Academy (456 marks) secured the second and third positions respectively. Salt Brook had four toppers, followed by Cotton College with three positions.
Seventeen candidates were among the top ten position holders in the Commerce stream, where Nikita More (438 marks) of KC Das Commerce College, Guwahati, and Sanket Agarwal (433 marks) of Gauhati Commerce College came second and third respectively.
Gauhati Commerce College had nine rank-holders while KC Das Commerce College and Darrang College produced two toppers each.
The Arts stream had the maximum of 1,86,688 candidates of whom 1,36,548 emerged successful, with the break-up for first, second and third divisions being 15,572, 43,379 and 1,36,548 respectively. Boys (76.61 pc) fared marginally better than girls (75.55 pc) in the overall pass percentage.
In the Science stream, of the total 17,535 candidates, 15,312 passed with the break-up for first, second and third divisions being 8,450, 6,030 and 832 respectively. Girls (93.48 pc) outshone boys (88.29 pc) in the overall pass percentage.
In the Commerce stream, of the total 16,776 candidates 13,389 emerged successful with the break-up for first, second and third divisions being 3,442, 5,120 and 4,827 respectively. Girls (86.10 pc) again outscored boys (79.67 pc) in the overall pass percentage.
An analysis of the results since 2002 shows a huge jump in the pass percentage of all the streams. The Arts stream which had a pass percentage of 45.98 in 2002 recorded an increasing trend every year to reach 73.14 per cent in 2011. The Science stream too had a similar trend as its pass percentage reached 87.32 this year from 58.61 in 2002. The Commerce stream, which saw a pass percentage of 57.95 in 2002, reached 79.81 per cent this year.
The district-wise performance list (Arts) had Dhemaji emerging first with a pass percentage of 90.80 per cent, followed by Lakhimpur with 85.49 per cent, Darrang 85.05 per cent, and Nalbari with 82.83 per cent.
In the Science stream, Nalbari with 95.44 per cent was the best performer, followed by Dibrugarh with 94.83 per cent, Sivasagar with 93.84 per cent, Baksa with 93.58 per cent, and Lakhimpur with 92.53 per cent.
In the Commerce stream, Dhemaji with 98.56 per cent was the topper, followed by Darrang with 94.17 per cent, Baksa with 93.17, Nalbari with 92.21 per cent, Morigaon with 91.94 per cent, and Barpeta with 91.47 per cent.
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