Rural students fare better in PU exams this year; overall, 61.88% make the cut

BENGALURU: As expected, girls have outshone boys in the PU II exams, the results of which were announced on Saturday. Interestingly, this year, rural students have done slightly better than their urban counterparts.

Primary and Secondary Education Minister B C Nagesh, who announced the results, said the overall pass percentage has improved by 0.08 per cent over last year. While Dakshina Kannada district topped among the districts, Udupi was second and Vijayapura at third spot. Chitradurga was at the bottom of the chart.

“We got better than expected results and I congratulate all the students who have passed. Students should not get disheartened with the result, this is not the last exam”, Nagesh said.

“This year, we had 81 evaluation centres, more than previous years, and the results were announced in less than 40 days. We could have announced it three days earlier, but as the CET was held on Thursday and Friday, we did not announce it as it could affect the performance of the students”, he said.

How They Fared

Fresh students: 5,99,794 (4,02,697 passed — 67.14 pc).

Repeaters: 61,838 (14,403 passed — 23.29 pc).

Private candidates: 21,931 (5,866 passed — 26.75 pc).

Total pass percentage: 61.88 pc

Further, the minister said the overall percentage dropped as the pass percentage among repeaters and private candidates was less.
“Science students have performed better, like always. There has been100 pc result in all the colleges”, Nagesh announced.

Science: Simran Shesharao of RV PU Collge, Jayanagar, Bengaluru, topped with 598/600 marks.
Four students secured 597 marks while eight students scored 596.

Arts: Shwetha Byragonda and Madiwalara Sahana topped with 594 marks out of 600. Both are from Indu Independent PU College, Kottur, Ballari.

Commerce: Manava Vinay Kejriwal of Jain PU College, Jayanagar 9th Block, Bengaluru, Neelu Singh, BGS PU College, Dasanapura hobli, Akash Das of St Claret PU College Jalahalli, and Neha of SBGNS Rural PU College, Chikkaballapur have scored 596/600.

Minister B C Nagesh spoke to some of the toppers after announcing the results.

Students can apply for scanned papers and revaluation from June 18 to 30. “I appeal to the children not to wait for revaluation since it affects the whole process. Students should not get depressed. Supplementary exams will be conducted from August 1 and the timetable will be announced soon”, the minister said.