Female students in the Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations have outnumbered the male students in terms of pass rate this year.According to the results published on Thursday, percentage of pass of female students is 75.60 while male is 73.93. On an average 74.70% of examinees passed examinations under 10 education boards of the country.As many as 6,45,798 male students participated in the examination while the number of female students was 5,57,842, it added.