Jharkhand Academic Council declared this year’s intermediate results on Friday with the state registering its best ever performance in the last decade across all the three streams.

In science, the overall pass percentage stood at 86.89, Commerce recorded 90.33, while Arts logged 90.71, according to the results announced by state education minister Jagarnath Mahto at the JAC office in Namkum in the presence senior board officials.

JAC chairman Arvind Prasad Singh said that going by data of past intermediate results, the overall pass percentage of 2021 in all three disciplines were the highest since 2010. He maintained that anyone seeking a review of his/her results can apply for scrutiny with JAC till August 6.

As many as 88,145 students appeared for intermediate exams in science of which 76,590 have passed with 56,445 having got a first division, 19,927 second division and 218 third division.

In commerce, 33,677 students appeared for the exams of which 30,422 have passed, including 19,951 in the first division, 9,987 in the second division and 484 in the third division.

In Arts, 189,801 of 209,234 students who appeared have passed. Of them, 52,177 got a first division, 117,245 second and 20,379 third division.

JAC devised a 80:20 marking pattern for both matric and intermediate exams which meant that 80 per cent weightage was given to students' past performance in class 9 and 11, and 20 per cent was based on practical exams or internal assessments by respective schools.

In terms of districts, Hazaribagh (92.24%), Koderma (92.19%) and Giridih (91.94%) were the top three in overall pass percentage in science. Ranchi remained in 10th position with 85.42%, and East Singhbhum was 12th with 84.08% . Pakur was at te bottome of the list with a pass percentage of 72.65%.

In commerce, Simdega (96.03%), Chatra (94.98%) and Jamtara (94.38%) were the top three performers in terms of pass percentages, E.Singhbhum (90.58%) and Ranchi (89.78%) were placed 12th and 13th, respectively, while Godda (77.38%) came last. Similarly, in aArts, Khunti (96.85%), Simdega (96.77%) and Deoghar (94.95%) topped among the districts. Ranchi (92.78%) and East Singhbhum (92.70%) stood 7th and 8th and Sahebganj (80.10) was last.

Both the matric and intermediate examinations were cancelled by the state government in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

On Thursday, JAC published matriculation results in which overall pass percentage was 95.92.