AHSEC Results | Cotton University lingers behind

Withthe declaration of HS results by Assam Higher Secondary Education Council(AHSEC) on Saturday, the historic Cotton University (formerly Cotton College)scored a pass percentage of 94.89% in Science and 94.79% Arts, without anystudents securing position in either of the streams.

Notably,though students from some government institutions have made it to the list oftop rankers in all of the streams, the private junior colleges haveoutperformed them in securing positions as well as in respect of passpercentage.

Around549 students have appeared this year's examination in the Science stream fromCotton and 521 have passed the examination. 420 students of Science streampassed with first division marks, while 98 students secured second division and3 students secured third division.

Similarly in Arts stream, 164 out of total 173 students passed the examination from Cotton. Out of them 129 students secured first division, while 33 students passed in second division and 2 secured third division.

Meanwhile, several intellectuals have expressed their dissatisfaction on the performance of the prestigious institution.