ISC students post impressive result
Students who appeared for the Council for Indian School Certificate exams have reason to rejoice. An impressive 98.04% of students cleared the class X paper, while 97.04% passed the class XII exam. For the board, which is celebrating its golden jubilee this year, it’s a pat on the back, signalling a marginal improvement from last year. For the north region though, there’s not much to celebrate.
Students from the north didn’t fair well compared to their counterparts from the rest of the country. In fact, Delhi and NCR failed to throw up a national level topper. That honour went to two girls from Mumbai and Varanasi — Janaki Kirit Sheth and Shruti Singh — for class X while in class XII, Gaurav Sood from Doon school in Dehradun walked away with the top score. With a pass percentage of 97.55% in class X and 96.76% in class XII, the north trailed behind all the regions.
Sadly, the city didn’t even manage the 100% result it got last year, with only 124 out of the 132 students passing in class XII. In class X, of the 581 students who appeared, only 567 cleared the exam. However, the city did do well individually.
In Shri Ram School, which recorded a pass percentage of 86.2% — its highest till date — the class XII topper was Reva Dutta, who scored 96.5%. Said Komal Sood, principal, Shri Ram, "The students have done very well. We have a number of 90 percenters in both class X and XII."
The class X topper, Naresh Raghuraman , was equally excited. With a personal best of 96%, the boy had got cent per cent in computers, which he claimed was his future. "I want to crack the IIT-JEE and go on to study at MIT. I’ve already started preparing for it."
The council also showed an upwards trend in the pass percentage of students in the special category. While both the ISC and ICSE saw SC, ST and OBC students doing better than last year, it also had interesting statistics for the girl students. Said G Arathoon, secretary, CISCE, " The girls traditionally do better in exams."
This year too, out of the 1,01,998 students who sat for the ICSE papers, an impressive 98.63% girls cleared the exam. Compare that to the boys, who had a pass percentage of 97.57% only. The story was repeated in class XII, where the girls again outshone the boys.
Interestingly, region-wise, the south showed the maximum percentage entry of girls at 47% at both the ISC and ICSE levels. It also had the highest pass percentage, with 99.22 students passing in class X and 99% in class XII. This was followed by the west and the east.
Students from the north didn’t fair well compared to their counterparts from the rest of the country. In fact, Delhi and NCR failed to throw up a national level topper. That honour went to two girls from Mumbai and Varanasi — Janaki Kirit Sheth and Shruti Singh — for class X while in class XII, Gaurav Sood from Doon school in Dehradun walked away with the top score. With a pass percentage of 97.55% in class X and 96.76% in class XII, the north trailed behind all the regions.
Sadly, the city didn’t even manage the 100% result it got last year, with only 124 out of the 132 students passing in class XII. In class X, of the 581 students who appeared, only 567 cleared the exam. However, the city did do well individually.
In Shri Ram School, which recorded a pass percentage of 86.2% — its highest till date — the class XII topper was Reva Dutta, who scored 96.5%. Said Komal Sood, principal, Shri Ram, "The students have done very well. We have a number of 90 percenters in both class X and XII."
The class X topper, Naresh Raghuraman , was equally excited. With a personal best of 96%, the boy had got cent per cent in computers, which he claimed was his future. "I want to crack the IIT-JEE and go on to study at MIT. I’ve already started preparing for it."
The council also showed an upwards trend in the pass percentage of students in the special category. While both the ISC and ICSE saw SC, ST and OBC students doing better than last year, it also had interesting statistics for the girl students. Said G Arathoon, secretary, CISCE, " The girls traditionally do better in exams."
This year too, out of the 1,01,998 students who sat for the ICSE papers, an impressive 98.63% girls cleared the exam. Compare that to the boys, who had a pass percentage of 97.57% only. The story was repeated in class XII, where the girls again outshone the boys.
Interestingly, region-wise, the south showed the maximum percentage entry of girls at 47% at both the ISC and ICSE levels. It also had the highest pass percentage, with 99.22 students passing in class X and 99% in class XII. This was followed by the west and the east.
SUCCESS GRAPH
Students appeared :
Class X : 1,01,998 — 57,266 boys; 44,732 girls
Class XII : 47,977 — 26,871 boys; 21,106 girls
Pass percentage :
Class X : 98.04% (Up by 0.08% from 2007)
Class XII : 97.04% (up by 0.08% from 2007)
Information Times of India
