Girls outshine boys in first, second Inter exams

Hyderabad: Girls outshine boys in the first and second year Intermediate Public Examinations (IPE)-2019. The results were declared on Thursday by the Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education (TSBIE).

According to the results announced by State Education Secretary Dr B Janardhan Reddy in the presence of TSBIE Secretary Dr A Ashok, out of 4,09,133 candidates who appeared in the general stream in the first year intermediate examination, 2,47,407 candidates qualified with an overall pass percentage registering 60.5 per cent.

Of the overall pass percentage, the pass percentage of girls was 66 per cent against boys pass percentage of 55 per cent. However, the number of candidates qualified with an 'A' grade, scoring above 75 per cent of marks is only 52.1 per cent.

Similarly, the pass percentage of students who qualified with a 'B' grade, scoring more than 60 per cent and less than 75 per cent marks is just 28.3 per cent.

Likewise, the pass percentage of students qualified with a 'C' grade scoring marks of less than 60 per cent and 50 per cent or more is 13.5 per cent. This leaves only 6 per cent of students in the overall pass percentage who scored less than 50 per cent and 35 per cent or more securing a 'D' grade.

In the vocational stream of the first-year intermediate examinations, out of 43,520 candidates who appeared in the examinations 53.2 per cent have qualified. Out of this, girls scored a pass percentage of 67.8 per cent and the boys scored a pass percentage of 41 per cent.

Similarly, in second year intermediate examinations, out of a total of 3,82,534 candidates in regular stream who appeared in general category, 60.4 per cent have qualified.

Out of the overall pass percentage of 60.4, the pass percentage of girls is 70.8 against boys pass percentage of 58.2 per cent.

The overall pass percentage of the vocational stream students with regular study is 67.7 per cent, out of this, the pass percentage of girls is 79.6 against boys pass percentage of 57.9.

In grade-wise pass percentages, 60.4 per cent of students have secured A grade, 26.4 scoring B grade, 10.1 per cent scoring C grade and only 3.1 per cent scored D grade.

In case of students with private study, out of 68,960 candidates who appeared in the final intermediate examinations, 24.5 per cent have been qualified. Out of this, the pass percentage of girls is 28 per cent and that of boys is 22 per cent.

The pass percentage of vocational students with private study is 46 per cent. In this stream too, girls registered a pass percentage of 54 per cent, boys registered 44 pass percentage.

It may be mentioned here that the overall pass percentage in the first year has come down from 62.73 per cent in 2018 to 60.5 per cent in 2019.

Similarly, the overall pass percentage in the second intermediate has come down from 67.06 per cent in 2018 to 64.8 this year.