<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">In Nagaland, Girls have outshined boys yet again in the High School Leaving Certificate, HSLC and Higher Secondary School Leaving Certificate, HSSLC examinations. In the 2023 results declared by the Nagaland Board of School Education today, a total of 9,350 girls qualified for the HSLC exam as compared to 7,780 boys. Christy Paul Mathew of Don Bosco Hr. Sec. School, Dimapur topped the HSLC 2023 with 99 percent. In HSSLC Exams, girls have done better than boys in all three streams. In the Arts stream, girls recorded a pass percentage of 86.27 with boys at 78.44 percent.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">In commerce, girls registered 90.34 pass percentage while boys stood at 82.47 percent.  In Science Stream, the pass percentage for girls is 90.39 while it is 82.51 for boys. In the top 10 list, girls made a clean sweep of the Arts stream with 18 girl candidates claiming all the spots. In the commerce stream, there were eight girls to four boys, while the Science stream saw nine girls and boys each on the merit list. </span></p>