BHUBANESWAR: A marginal dip in the success rate marked the results of the Plus Two Examination, 2012, as premier colleges of the State began to lose their dominance giving way to institutions from towns and small centres spread across the State.Though the three toppers were from Bhubaneswar and Cuttack - two from BJB Junior College and Ravenshaw Junior College - the Top-10 list was crowded by students from smaller areas. The results were announced by Higher Education Minister Badri Narayan Patra and Secretary CS Kumar here on Wednesday.And, it was girls again who bagged the top positions. Soumya Sandipa of BJB Junior College, Bhubaneswar, topped the Science stream by scoring 560 marks in the aggregate, while Debasmita Sarangi of Ravenshaw Junior College secured 521 to bag the top honour in Arts stream.It was Priyabrata Barik of Kalinga Bharati Residential College of Cuttack, a private college, who emerged topper in the Commerce stream, scoring 562 marks.The pass percentage among boys was 67.64 whereas the girls completely outshone them with a success rate of 74.19 pc.The Science stream’s pass percentage stood at 72.53, indicating a marginal drop from 73.48 pc last year. Of the 69,379 students who appeared in the examination, 50,325 cleared.In Commerce, the success rate of 67.03 pc followed the pattern of a decline. Last year, the pass percentage was 68.33 whereas in 2010, it was 74.40. Of the 25,029 students who had appeared for the examination, 16,777 cleared it. However, the Arts stream bucked the trend with its pass percentage increasing from 68.32 in 2011 to 70.63 this year. Out of 1,72,895 candidates who had taken the exam 1,22,132 were successful.CS Kumar admitted a marginal drop in the performance and said remedial measures were being taken to arrest the trend. Extra coaching classes to clear doubts of the students will be held, he said.In total, 2,67,303 students appeared in the examination and 1,89,234 cleared it. Of them 3,272 students were booked for malpractice. In four colleges - Athamallik College, Athamallik, Evening College, Angul, Humma Salt College, Humma, and Draupadi Junior College, Gumuda, examination was cancelled in Botany, Political Science and Education subjects respectively for violation of the CHSE Rules. There were at least 44 candidates in the Top-20 rank in Science, 37 in Commerce and 32 in Arts.
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