Girls continue to excel in the General Secondary Education Certificate Examination (Tawjihi), with nine girls among the top 10 in the scientific stream, while female students claimed the top ten ranks in the literary stream, according to Education Minister Omar Razzaz on Thursday.

Girls also ranked at the top in the IT, agriculture and medical streams, the Tawjihi summer session results, which were announced on Thursday, showed.

The trend of girls claiming supremacy in the test has been witnessed in the past years.

Of the 125,375 students who registered for the session, 79,131 sat for the exam, including 47,512 regular students and 31,619 private-study applicants, Razzaz said, noting that the overall pass rate in the academic streams stood at 54.9 per cent.

The pass rate in the vocational stream stood at 51.9 per cent of 4,335 applicants.