Girls outsmart boys in Inter exam

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JUNE 6. The saga of girls outshining boys continued in the Intermediate second year results too as they registered a significantly high pass percentage of 45.40 per cent as against 37.20 among boys. The overall pass percentage of all candidates was 40.30.

Releasing the results amidst high drama here on Wednesday, the Secretary, Higher Education, Mr. K. Sudheer, said that the pass percentage declined marginally this year, registering 48.80 among regular candidates as against 49 per cent during the previous year.

A total of 4,60,585 candidates appeared for the examination of which 3,34,735 candidates were regular and the remaining appeared in private. Among the regular candidates 1,63,541 students cleared the examination. Among the private candidates only 22,081 candidates passed registering a very low percentage of 17.50. In vocational courses, 3,573 candidates cleared the examination out of the total 14,516 appeared. The pass percentage was 30.80.

An interesting aspect of the results was that the maximum number of students passed in first division. As many as 1,09,192 candidates got first division and 40,582 passed in the second division while only 21,949 students figured in the third division.

Krishna district continued its good performance bagging the top place with 65.65 pass percentage while Mahabubnagar district finished at the bottom with a pass percentage of 25.40. Ranga Reddy district stood second with 62.60 per cent while Guntur district figured in the third position with 58.77 per cent.

The Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) Secretary, Dr. M. Srinivasa Rao, said the memorandum of marks would be despatched to the Regional Inspection Officers before June 10. Students can obtain the memorandum of marks from June 11. Any discrepancies should be referred to the board before June 20. Applications received after that would not be entertained.

Candidates desirous of applying for recounting of marks should send their applications with all the particulars to the BIE office before June 20. Applications should be addressed to the Joint Secretary (Exams) II, Board of Intermediate Education, Nampally. Recounting fee of Rs. 100 per paper should be sent in the form of a Demand Draft along with the applications.

Dr. Srinivasa Rao said that the advanced supplementary examinations would start on July 2 and finish on July 9. Practical examinations would be conducted from June 27. The time table had been released. They would be available in the colleges.

Second year students who fail in four or less subjects would be allowed to sit for the supplementary examinations while first year students can take the examination even if they fail in all subjects. Students who were not permitted to appear in March 2001 due to late admissions can also sit for these examinations.

As many as eight telephone lines have been dedicated for the Interactive Voice Response System. Students can dial up 4756832, 4756833, 4756834, 4751172, 4751178, 4751191, 4756587 and 4752527 and know the results.

Exam fee hiked

The BIE has hiked the examination fee for the advancement supplementary examinations. Students taking the examinations pertaining to first year or second year have to pay Rs. 150 irrespective of the number of papers. Students taking examinations of both first and second year irrespective of the number of papers should pay Rs. 300. Students taking only practical examinations have to pay Rs. 150.

Students appearing for practical examination along with theory papers of second year have to pay Rs. 200. First year students wishing to appear for improvement would have to pay Rs. 150 plus Rs.20 for each paper.

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