Telangana, AP girls stand tall in intermediate results

Girls notched top ranks compared to boys in the Telangana intermediate (both the years) public examinations.

The Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education declared the results here on Thursday. This year, the gap between the two is almost 11%. While 55 % of the 1,99,151 boys who appeared for the first-year exam passed, 58.2% of the total 1,84,104 boys who appeared for the second-year intermediate passed in different grades.

A total of 2,09,982 girls appeared for the first-year exam and 1, 38,704 passed (66%). Of the total 1,98,430 girls who appeared for the second-year exam, 1,40,549 passed in different grades, recording 70.8 pass percentage. The gap between girls and boys is 11% first year and 12.6% in the second year.

In vocational course too, girls fared better than boys in both junior and senior intermediate. In all, 4.52 lakh students appeared for the first-year exam, while 4.90 lakh students took the second-year exam.

Girls top in AP

Similar results were witnessed in the sibling state of Andhra Pradesh, where the results were declared late last week. While girls achieved a 75% pass percentage, boys recorded 69 % in the second year. In the first year, girls secured 64% and boys 56%. In AP, a total of 5,07,302 students appeared for the first year and 5,10,298 for the second year exam.

Congratulating the girl students, Balala Hakkula Sangham (Child Rights Association) president Achyuta Rao said that girls stood ahead of boys in both the Telugu speaking states, braving gender inequality. “Girls face serious challenges like lack of encouragement by family, child marriage threats and the necessity to do domestic chores, besides health and nutrition issues,” he said.

The child rights group is also running a campaign on the social media calling upon the students not to slip into depression if they did not fare well in the exams. “Failure is not your mistake. It is the circumstances that lead to it. You have plenty of opportunities,” Rao said in a statement.