Julie Shankar Joshi of Kalyan has topped the SSC exams this year. She secured 95.60 per cent marks.
Updated at 1.14 pm
MUMBAI: Monica Mashelkar of Latur has topped the Secondary School Certificate exams in Maharashtra this year, securing 96.66 per cent marks.
Julie Shankar Joshi of GE Institute's High School in Kalyan topped the exams from Mumbai. She secured 95.60 per cent marks.
Pritichi Mukesh came second with 95.46 per cent, while Tanvi Pradhan with 95.06 per cent marks got the third rank.
The total pass percentage is 78.25.
Pratik Narendra Patil of Maratha High School, Nashik topped the SSC merit list of Nashik division, with the division registering a pass percentage of 67.78.
Pratik scored 703 marks out of 750 and obtained 93.73 per cent marks while Urvashi Rajendra Bhalode of St Lawrence High School, Jalgaon, stood first among girls, obtaining 93.33 per cent marks.
Dipti Dilip Nirbhavane of Smt R J Chavan Girls High School, Nashik Road came first among the backward classes by securing 92.13 per cent marks.
Girls swept all the three top positions in the state as well as seven of the eight divisions with Mashelkar from Adarsh Vidyalaya, Osmanabad scoring 96.66 per cent.
She was followed jointly by Nisha Lagad from Dwarkadas Mantri Rajathani Vidyalaya, Beed and Ashirya Tarranum Sayed Yusuf from Janta Shikshan Prasarak Mandal Urdu High School, Yavatmal scoring 96.53 pc each and Pune girl Afrin Sikandar from Anglo Urdu Girls High School who scored 96.40 pc in the Secondary School Certificate examinations conducted by Maharashtra State Board Secondary and
Higher Secondary Education held in March.
Board Chairman Vasant Kalpande told reporters that girls outshone the boys registering an overall pass percentage of 64.59. A total of 16,25,444 students registered for the examination of whom 16,08,278 appeared and 10,38,722 students cleared the examination.
Kalpande said that the performance of girls has been ''excellent'' and the overall pass percentage has risen by six per cent from the previous year of 57.31 per cent. To a query about students seeking their answer sheets, Kalpande said that under the Right to information Act, all queries and information could be given, except showing the answer sheets of candidates.
Aurangabad topped in the pass percentage amongst all the eight divisions of the board, scoring 71.95 per cent followed by Latur with 70.28 per cent, Nashik 67.78 per cent, Mumbai 66.82 per cent, Pune 65.90, Kolhapur 64.90 per cent, Amravati 62.90 pe cent and Nagpur lagging behind with 51.41 per cent.
A total of 3,760 cases of malpractices were registered during the examination, he said.
Division-wise toppers
PUNE: Jamandar Afreen Sikandar 96.40 per cent;
NAGPUR: Nidhi Moreshwar Khobragade 95.73 per cent;
AURANGABAD: Nisha Kailasrao Lagad 96.53 per cent;
MUMBAI: Juilie Shankar Joshi 95.60 per cent;
KOLHAPUR: Radhika Ramchandra Kulkarni 95.33 per cent;
AMRAVATI: Arshaiya Tarannum Sayeed Yousuf 96.53 per cent;
NASHIK: Pratik Narayan Patil 93.73 per cent;
LATUR: Monika Mallinath Mashalkar 96.66 per cent.
Admissions to Std XI will begin on Monday itself, the day of the results of the Std X or Secondary School Certificate examinations are announced by the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education.
The results will be available at
http://mahresult.nic.in,
http://www.msbshse.ac.in and
http://www.mh-ssc.ac.in from 11 am onwards.
-- With inputs from Agencies
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