Boy, girl on top in BSEB exam
PATNA: If you find the 'girls-outshine-boys' headlines hackneyed even if that has been the fact in most of the competitions and examinations, here's something different: Only 12 girls as against 29 boys made it to the merit list of 15 top scorers in the Class X exam conducted by the Bihar School Examination Board ( BSEB). Here's more: the unsuccessful students included 1.56 lakh girls as against only 1.43 lakh boys. But then 5.32 lakh boys as against 3.99 lakh girls took the exam. Thus, the girls' pass percentage is better than that of the boys. A boy and a girl scored 460/500 each to share the topper's slot. They are Kundan Kumar of Janata High School-Sitamarhi and Shalini Yadav of Ghanshyam Balika High School-Khagaul. Shekhar Suman of Adsar (Jamui) ranked 2nd with 455 while Sanjeet Kumar, Mohd Gufran Alam and Himanshu Kumar of Hajipur, Rosera and Samastipur respectively had to be content with third position with 454 each. State HRD minister P K Shahi released ...