Girls outperform boys in Himachal class 12 results; Mehak tops all streams with 97.2%

Dharamshala: The Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education (HPBOSE) has announced the class 12 results, with girls once again outperforming boys. Out of 75 students on the merit list, 61 are girls and only 14 are boys.

Mehak, a student of DR Public Senior Secondary School in Gagret, Una district, topped all three streams — science, arts and commerce — securing 97.2 per cent marks. She scored 486 out of 500 in the science stream.

Khushi from Dhauladhar Public Senior Secondary School, Sham Nagar (Dharamshala), and Jahnavi Thakur from Bhartiya Vidya Peeth Public Senior Secondary School, Baijnath, jointly secured second position with 96.6 per cent marks.

In the arts stream, Ankita of Government Senior Secondary School topped with 96.6 per cent marks, while in the commerce stream, Payal Sharma from Government Senior Secondary School, Chanaur in Kangra district, stood first with 96.4 per cent.

The results were declared during a press conference by HPBOSE Chairman and Kangra Deputy Commissioner Hemraj Bairwa, who said the pass percentage rose to 83.16 per cent — up by nearly 10 per cent compared to last year’s 73.76 per cent.

This year, 86,373 students appeared for the exams held between March 4 and 29 at 2,300 centres across the state. Of them, 71,591 students passed, 5,847 were placed in the compartment category, and 8,581 failed.