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Maharashtra HSC results: Girls exceed scores of boys since past 2 years

Students can view their results on official websites: mahresult.nic.in and results.gov.in

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Neha Upalekar
Last Updated : Jun 01 2017 | 3:41 PM IST
After a period of anxiety and curiosity finally the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education has clearly declared the results of the academic year 2017 on 30th May at 1 pm. The students who appeared for this examination can view their results on the official website: mahresult.nic.in and results.gov.in by filling their respective seat number that will help them access their result page. 

There are a total of 14,29,478 lack students who appeared for the HSC examination conducted this year out of which 12,79,406 students have successfully cleared. After statistical calculation it can be concluded that this year girls have exceeded the average overall passing percentage of boys by considerably 6.4%.

Year 2016 Year 2017
Overall Passing Percentage: 86.60% Overall Passing Percentage: 89.50%
Overall Passing Percentage for Girls: 90.50% Overall Passing Percentage for Girls: 93.5%
Overall Passing Percentage for Boys: 83.46% Overall Passing Percentage for Boys: 86.5%
Number of Students Appeared: 13,19,754 Number of Students Appeared: 14,29,478

Students who have given this examination belong from three respective streams: Science, Arts, Commerce, Arts and Vocational Courses. This is a comparison stated so as to review the statistical differences between the results of 2016-2017 where it clearly depicts the scores of girls on a higher ratio as compared to the scoring ratio obtained by the boys.

Stream Year 2016 Year 2017
Science Overall Pass Percentage: 93.16% More than 95% Passing
Commerce Overall Pass Percentage: 89.10% 91%  Pass Percentage
Arts 78.11 Pass Percentage 79.71% Pass Percentage
All Streams:
Includes Science, Arts, Commerce and Vocational Stream
Science: 4,84,960 Lacks
 
Arts and Vocational Stream:
3,37,598 Lacks
 
Commerce: 4,41,913 Lacks
 
Science: 5.59 Lacks
 
Arts: 5.09 Lacks
 
Commerce: 3.73 Lacks
 
Vocational Course: 62,948

* The Konkan division topped the list as it stood first with 95.20% followed by Pune and Kolhapur 91.16% and 91.40% respectively.

* Unfortunately Mumbai seems to lag quite behind and has scored 88.21% but considerably more than the scores obtained in 2016 which were 86.08% in the year 2016.

* Amongst the Science stream toppers is Aneesh Shetty belonging from Pace Junior Science College who scores 95.69%.

* Amongst the Commerce toppers are Shashikant Sherkar from R. A Podar College and Vedika Thakekar belonging from Mahatma College both have scored 94.92%.

* Amongst the Arts Stream the highest marks attained are 84% at Birla College and 87.17% obtained by a student studying in Ruia College. 

* Amongst all the three streams Science students have performed the best: 95.85% followed by Commerce with 90.57% and Arts with approximately 81.91% respectively.