With a higher pass percentage, girls outshone boys in the Class 10 state board exams,the results of which were declared today by the Directorate of school education.
The overall pass percentage was 94.5 per cent.
Girls recorded a pass percentage of 96.4 while the boys registered a percentage of 92.5 per cent, an official release SAID
Around 9.50 lakh students took the examinations. Of the total number, 4.76 lakhs were girls, 4.74 lakhs boys.
Sivaganga topped the districts in the examinations followed by Erode and Virudhunagar.
Subject-wise performance saw 98.47 per cent of students clearing science, 96.75 per cent (social science), 96.50 per cent (English) and 96.42 per cent (language),the release said.
A total of 4,433 differently-abled students took the examination, of which 3,944 emerged successful.
The state government did away with the ranking system last year, saying the system caused unnecessary 'stress' to students.
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