The Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education (HPBOSE) on Monday declared the results of Class XII examinations. This time Himachal Board has furnished the task of result declaration within a record 25 days. The passing percentage is 78.93%, which is about 15 percent more than the previous year.
Board Chairman Balbir Tegta said as many as 1,01,104 candidates appeared in the examinations, of whom 79,411 passed 14,299 were placed in compartment.
The pass percentage was 78.93 per cent against 64.64 per cent in 2015.
Rahul Sharma of Dharrubal, Mandi and Roshan Lal of Arki, Solan topped in Arts section by securing 471 out of 500 marks.
Tammanna Koushal of Dharamshala topped in Commerce scoring 482 marks and Suvrat Sharma of Hamirpur came first in Science bagging 492 marks.
Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh congratulated the Board for declaring the results within 25 days and said the better performance was due to the maintenance of high standard of education by the government in schools, a PTI report said.
Board Secretary Shravan Manta said candidates who want to get re-evaluation of their papers done may submit online a sum of Rs 400 as re-evaluation fee per answer sheet and Rs 300 per answer sheet for re-checking by May 9 through school heads.
He said off-line applications will not be entertained.
