Chennai, May 8 -- In line with the pattern seen over the
years, Girls once again outshone boys in the Plus-2 Board
exams conducted by the Tamil Nadu government, results
of which were announced on Thursday.
The results were released by the Tamil Nadu Directorate
of Government Examinations a day ahead of the scheduled
date of tomorrow.
The state recorded an impressive overall pass percentage
of 95.03%.
A total of 7,92,494 students appeared for the exams. Among
them, 4,19,316 were girls and 3,73,178 were boys.
Girls outperformed boys with a pass percentage of 96.70%,
while boys recorded a pass percentage of 93.16%.
The pass percentage of girls was 3.54 % higher than boys.
The overall pass percentage this year was 0.47 % higher
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