Guwahati, 28 April (HS): The Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC) on Tuesday announced the results of the Higher Secondary (HS) final examinations, with an overall pass percentage of 81.54 across all streams.

Among the four streams, Science recorded the highest pass percentage at 89.79, followed by Commerce at 81.13, Arts at 79.54, and Vocational at 74.20.

In the Arts stream, Baksa district topped with a pass percentage of 94.29, while Chirang secured the second position with 92.99. A total of 1,91,798 students cleared the Arts stream examinations, including 54,755 in first division, 79,181 in second division and 57,862 in third division.

In the Commerce stream, 15,796 students passed the examination, of whom 7,787 secured first division, 5,694 second division and 2,315 third division.

The Science stream saw 54,474 successful candidates, including 34,079 in first division, 17,777 in second division and 2,618 in third division.

In the Vocational stream, 1,465 candidates appeared in the examination. Altogether, 3,22,723 students appeared across all streams.

Examination authorities further informed that 190 students were expelled for using unfair means, while 8,075 candidates remained absent during the examination period.-----------

Hindusthan Samachar / Sriprakash