Chennai: As is the trend these days, Tamilnadu girls outshone boys in the class 10 exams, results for which were announced this morning.
The girls secured 97 per cent pass, while the boys could match it only with 93.3 percentage pass, about 2 per cent less than the State average which stood at 95.2 per cent.
Among the districts, Tirupur kept the top position for itself, followed by Ramanathapuram and educational factory Namakkal in that order.
Tirupur had a pass percentage of 98.53, beating State average, with Ramanathapuram bring up a close second with 98.48 per cent and Namakkal not to far behind with 98.45 percentage.
In all, 6,100 schools reported 100 per cent pass percentage, while the break-up for different streams of schools was: government schools – 92.48 per cent; government-aided schools – 94.53 per cent; matriculation schools – 99.05 per cent.
Students who have cleared the exams successfully, can get their provisional marksheets from their schools from 2 May and those who have failed can appear for special supplementary exams from 14 June to 22 June.
According to the School Education Department, 9.60 lakh students belonging to 12,546 schools in Tamilnadu and Puducherry and 38,000 private students sat for the class 10 exams that were held last month.
The results have been sent as SMS to the registered mobile phone and can be accessed through three websites. They are also available in the information centres in the collectors’ offices, public libraries and in the schools where they studied.