Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) Class 12 results declared; girls bag top 3 ranks

Mohali: Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) declared its Class 12 results on Monday, with girls bagging the top three positions in the merit list. 

The students can check their results at the official website of the board www.pseb.ac.in.

Darshveer Kaur of RS Model School, Ludhiana and Saema Rashid of Khalsa Senior Secondary School, Ropar shared the top position with both securing 100 percent marks, PSEB chairperson Tejinder Kaur Dhaliwal said while declaring the result.

While Sarika of Humanities stream from BCM Senior Secondary School at Jamalpur in Ludhiana stood second by securing 99.78 percent marks, Kajol Tandon of Science stream from RS Model School, Ludhiana bagged the third position by securing 99.56 percent marks.

Ludhiana district once again topped the list of meritorious students, with 199 students from here making it to the merit list.

PSEB had conducted the senior secondary annual exams in March this year, in which 3.40 lakh students had appeared.

Of them, 3.05 lakh students were regular while the remaining had appeared as private candidates under Open School programme.

The number of boys and girls is who took the exams is 197250 and 152650, respectively.

With overall pass percentage of 76.24 percent, 2,40,199 of the total 3,04,644 regular students and 18,881 of the total 35,174 private students cleared the Class XII exams.

It is for the first time that PSEB had declared its senior secondary exam result before the CBSE and ICSE results, she said.

With Agency inputs